Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/03/21

What’s up in Fall of 2021 from a Faith, Media & Culture POV? Here are some highlights. 

SEPTEMBER
September is Gospel Music Heritage Month. It’s also National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, National Guide Dog Month, National Preparedness Month, National Prostate Health Month, Pain Awareness Month and National Recovery Month. The latter is a time set aside to recognize the gains made by those in addiction recovery and acknowledge that far too many don’t live to tell their stories. A record number of people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2020: more than 93,000. Giving to any of those causes is certainly worthy.

Skiptember! A nifty handle Skip1 Founder Shelene Bryan hopes will bring attention to her organization which supports efforts to fight world poverty by building and renovating kitchens within orphanages and schools in impoverished areas, assisting in food distribution and feeding programs in places where kitchens can’t be built and helping with clean water and sustainable agricultural initiatives. They do this “one Skip at a time” by encouraging folks who are grateful to be living in the land of plenty to forego one little bit of luxury in solidarity and empathy toward those who have much less – and donate the money saved to help them out. Among her movement’s most ardent supporters is her friend and Skip1 Board member Candace Cameron Bure (Fuller House, Aurora Teagarden) – and then there’s that guy from Medium who cut this PSA for them.