Jennifer Garner took a long break from acting to ensure she spent as much time with her kids as possible . While raising them, however, she felt she’d become pretty lax on when it came to developing their values. But this was something she quickly hoped to rectify.
Jennifer Garner wanted her kids to be more in touch with religion In 2016, Miracles From Heaven was one of the many films Garner did during her return to acting . The feature was based on the memoir of the same name, which told the story of a mom whose daughter had a near-death experience. Garner would play the mother in the film, whose child told her she went to heaven after a near-fatal accident.
The actor confided that the script stayed with her after she read it. “I stayed up all night reading the script with a knot in my stomach,” Garner said in a 2016 interview with USA Today . Garner’s involvement in the movie brought up conversations about her own faith.
It was noted that she and her family were very religious as well. She and Affleck even baptized her children at the same Methodist church she used to go to. Overtime, however, she felt she’d lost her sense of religious tradition when it came to her children.
“I think I had become complacent in raising my children, almost as though [I thought] they were going to receive the ground beneath their feet that heaven had given me through osmosis,” she said. Garner didn’t have to force her kids to go to church, however. She was excited when she saw .
