Chris Vaughn’s planned documentary Making Arby set out to explore the spiritual threads that connect film and music. But instead of support, the project was met with intense family opposition, as some close relatives feared exposure of their “less than moral lifestyle and views.” What followed was a wave of targeted attacks against Vaughn and his family, underscoring the very struggle between truth and resistance that the film itself was meant to explore.

Poetic Excerpt In this reflective work, Christopher Vaughn Messer weaves early-English cadence with modern vision, meditating on the nature of perception, beauty, and truth. The poem draws upon images of glass, light, and the sea — symbols of reflection, grace, and fleeting mortality. With its layered rhythm and timeless voice, it calls the reader to look deeper: beyond appearances, beyond vain pursuits, toward wisdom, healing, and the light of the Son.