As filmmaker Robert Orlando and I began discussing the possibility of a blog series exploring his previous movie,\u00a0Apostle Paul: A Polite Bribe<\/em><\/a>, extra material connected with the film, and the sequel<\/a>\u00a0Apostle Paul: The Final Verdict<\/em> that will be out later this year, a set of three letters grabbed my attention: APB. In this context, of course, it was a convenient abbreviation for the title of the movie,\u00a0A Polite Bribe<\/em>. But outside of that context, it more frequently abbreviates \u201cAll Points Bulletin,\u201d the notification police send out when they are looking for someone.<\/p>\n What a perfect play on words for a set of movies that is an expression of Rob\u2019s own intellectual and spiritual journey<\/a> that has focused on a quest to recover and understand the historical figure of Saul of Tarsus, Paul the Apostle. Rob is putting out an \u201cAPB\u201d on the real Apostle Paul, the one of enormous influence, yet one that remains largely unknown.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve felt it a privilege to get to know Rob, starting with that first movie, and then as he made a guest appearance at Butler University<\/a> to serve on a Q&A about the film<\/a> after a showing of it on campus<\/a>, as well as taking time to talk to students in my class on Paul and the Early Church. I was even more honored when he interviewed me as part of his work on the sequel, Apostle Paul: The Final Verdict<\/em>. Scholars who work with filmmakers know that sometimes they capture the gist of what we\u2019re trying to say, or what scholars in general have to say, and sometimes they don\u2019t. Rob is in that rare category of filmmakers and authors (he didn\u2019t just make a movie, but also wrote an accompanying book<\/a>) who have charted a distinctive enough course, and yet one sufficiently well informed by previous scholarship, so as to come up with results that subsequent scholars have considered it worth citing and building upon.<\/p>\n