What happens when a seminary class assignment becomes a life calling? For Dr. Lisa Burkhardt Worley — ministry leader, talk show host, author, and award-winning filmmaker — that's exactly what occurred. In a recent episode of The UPside, Conversations That Light Up the World with host Marion MacKenzie, Lisa shared the remarkable and deeply supernatural story behind her two groundbreaking documentaries on antisemitism — films that have now earned over 51 international film festival awards combined. It began with a dream about a city in France she'd never visited, a nun she'd never met, and a divine assignment she never saw coming.
[LINK: https://youtu.be/yZ0BLYZ2mAE?si=V4YKaRJcvcTUbtOq.]
From the streets of Toulouse, France — where three Jewish children and a teacher were murdered at point-blank range by a radical Islamist in 2012 — to the quiet fields of Alderney in the English Channel where Holocaust graves are still being identified and preserved today, Lisa's documentaries Terror inToulouse and Their Blood Cries Out do something rare. They humanize. They refuse to let the forgotten stay forgotten. As Lisa explained to Marion, God opened every door — sometimes literally placing the exact person she needed directly in her path — confirming again and again that this work was not her idea. It was His. The result is a body of work that is as spiritually powerful as it is historically important.
But the conversation didn't stop at filmmaking. Marion and Lisa dove deep into the roots of antisemitism itself — why it has surged globally since October 7th, what replacement theology gets dangerously wrong, and why every Christian who reads their Bible should understand that loving Israel is not a political position. It's a biblical one. Lisa's insight was both clear-eyed and urgent: Satan targets what God loves, and the Jewish people are, in Scripture's own words, the apple of His eye. For anyone wrestling with these questions — or simply wanting to understand the world through a biblical lens — this conversation is essential viewing.
[LINK HERE: https://youtu.be/yZ0BLYZ2mAE?si=V4YKaRJcvcTUbtOq]
Dr. Lisa Burkhardt Worley is also the executive pastor of a thriving Dallas-area congregation, the founder of the curriculum website BridgeOfLove.com, and is currently producing a new documentary on campus antisemitism. Her life is proof that one yes to God — however unexpected the assignment — can open doors that change history. This episode of The UPside is one conversation you'll want to share. Forward it to someone in your life who is searching for truth, wrestling with today's headlines, or simply hungry for a perspective that goes deeper than the noise.
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