Thirty years ago I read it. Four years ago I set out to film it. You can watch it on Amazon Prime right now.
· A letter from Jeremy
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin. Seven episodes, filmed on location in Hungary and Italy, produced outside the studio system. Streaming now on Prime Video.
I have handed people the Pendragon Cycle my whole life.
I read Stephen Lawhead’s novels almost thirty years ago. They showed me a Christianity with dirt on it — a faith arriving in a hard country among people with every reason to distrust it, carried by men who argue themselves into it under pressure and sometimes lose. It was not the Christianity of my youth — nice, safe, soft. It changed my view of my faith and my work in the world.
