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Straughan’s writing deftly considers the moral crises we’re steeped in today without feeling preachy, which is a considerable achievement given that a film about faith is the perfect excuse to be sanctimonious.

“In me saying ‘Nazarene,’ it makes the song less preachy, less religious,” Samuel explains on a recent afternoon in West Hollywood.

And there are progressives who fall dangerously close to similar thinking, such as the strategist James Carville this March when he wagged an angry finger at “preachy females” in the Democratic Party.

In updating the book, “we didn’t want to be preachy or stand on a soapbox, but we wanted to be fair and equitable to the different cultures we’re representing.”

Mills isn’t preachy and knows her readers may not be ready to go full-on vegetarian.