AMC, the big movie chain, also says it screens some movies with captions at about a third of its U.S. theaters. Captions are more available now for live performances, too.

Perhaps the church is large, and screens project an image of what is happening on the stage or before the altar. Perhaps screens are reserved exclusively for text: the words of a song or a passage ...

A 2020 Gallup Poll found that 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999. U.S. church membership has fallen below a majority level ...

Organist Walt Strony will provide live music for a Jan. 20 screening of the 1925 classic film “Phantom of the Opera,” set for 7 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Saratoga.

Now, the church plans to broadcast its messages to a wider audience -- anybody passing by on Main Street. The church has installed two 1,800-pound LED screens on the marquee outside its entrance.