The award-winning professor whose transformation from agnosticism to Christianity is portrayed in an upcoming film says she wants her story to lead moviegoers to ask the “big questions” of life, just as she did when she enrolled at Oxford University as a skeptic of faith.
Surprised by Oxford is scheduled to release in theaters Sept. 27 and Oct. 1. It tells the real-life story of a student, Carolyn Weber, who arrived at Oxford as a skeptic but began changing her mind when confronted by the writings of C.S. Lewis and by friends and professors who believed in God. It is based on a book of the same name that won the Grace Irwin Award, Canada’s largest award for Christian writing.
It stars Rose Reid (Finding You, A Thousand Tomorrows), Mark Williams (Father Brown) and Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey).
Weber went on to serve on faculty at Oxford University, Seattle University and the University of San Francisco, among others, and was the first female dean of St. Peter’s College, Oxford. Today,…
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