“12 Angry Men”: Willingness to Consider the Truth of the Gospel

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“12 Angry Men”: Willingness to Consider the Truth of the Gospel

In the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men, a young man's fate is in the hands of 12 jurists. He is on trial for the murder of his father.

The 12 jurists walk into a hot, cramped jury room. All but one of the jurists (Henry Fonda) is ready to be done with the inconvenience of this trial. They've heard all they want to hear and seem unwilling to consider the possibility that the young man could be innocent. Only Henry Fonda's character seems sensitive to the fact that something ...

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