Make Me a Christian

Now that the series is ended I want to register my vote in favour of this experiment which met basic issues head on and drew from an impressive variety of Christian resources.

Make Me a Christian
C4, Sundays 10, 17 and 24 August 2008 at 7pm

The Reverend George Hargreaves thinks Britain is in a state of moral decline and that a return to a more 'Christian' way of life would stop the rot. He and his team of mentors aim to show how, by convincing a group of non-Christian volunteers to live by the teachings of the Bible for three weeks.

In this three-part series, a group of volunteers from around Leeds in West Yorkshire give up their normal lives and attempt to live like Christians for three weeks. They're not obvious candidates for such an experiment - there's:

Martin, a biker who's a tattooist and a militant atheist

Aaron, a young man who was brought up Christian until he was 12, and now has a girlfriend who is 10 weeks' pregnant

Faye, a lap-dancing manager who can't live without continually acquiring expensive designer shoes

Sarah, a middle-class mother who is so professionally busy that she and her husband have hardly any time to spend with their children

Kevin, a man in his 20s who, unbeknown to his girlfriend, goes out every week drinking and womanising

William, who found Christianity unfulfilling and has converted to Islam

Laura, a lesbian who sometimes sleeps with men.

Their mentors come from different branches of Christianity but they share a number of core beliefs.

(See MakeMeAChristian.com for continuing ministry based on this series)