The Project
Theology offers a home for the vast and the intimate. No question is foreclosed.
AT THE THRESHOLD is a global documentary film series and 501c3 organization exploring the intellectual and spiritual lives of contemporary religious scholars. Filmed by UNTAMED across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, these films invite you into the intimate terrain of ultimate questions.
Visually poetic and grounded in lived experience, the series brings forward the voices of theologians and philosophers whose work embodies courage, humility, and a deep longing to understand how the divine might be encountered in a fractured and pluralistic world.
The series is not catechetical. It does not ask you to convert or agree. But it will open you to a more vast world and invite you to listen to how another holds the weight of their own spiritual inquiry.
Each film is short, accessible, and human-centered, revealing the theological process not as a closed academic system, but as a lived posture of discovery, revision, and witness. Our subjects do not merely explain doctrine—they wrestle with meaning, beauty, suffering, and the possibility of transcendence in the context of contemporary life.
While much religious content online centers on polemic, performance, or debate, AT THE THRESHOLD is rooted in a different spirit—what Sir John Templeton called “the humble approach.” This perspective begins with a recognition of the limits of human understanding in the face of the vastness of the divine, but it is not passive. It invites an unsettling and sometimes courageous openness to inquiry and theological imagination.
Our films (currently) span Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and African traditional religious thought, and are made for spiritually and intellectually curious viewers across traditions.
By revealing what theology can be in modern life, we hope these films serve as catalysts for dialogue, imagination, and a more capacious understanding of faith.
AT THE THRESHOLD is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Washington State, with a mission to produce and distribute educational media projects that explore the religious, spiritual, and theological traditions of the world.
Our films have been made possible in part through the generous support of the Templeton Religion Trust and other partners. We are committed to fostering courageous, cross-cultural dialogue and making our work freely accessible to audiences around the world.
As a public charity, all donations are tax-deductible as permitted by U.S. law. We welcome inquiries from individuals, institutions, and funders who share our commitment to courageous inquiry, unfolding discovery, and religious imagination.
