Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 10/11/23 The Isolation Pandemic. In May the US Surgeon General issued an advisory on “the public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in our country.” The report asserts that the mortality impact of being socially disconnected is akin to smoking up…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 06/21/23 A cautionary tale of hope. In her self-revealing memoir Journey of the Self: Memoir of an Artist painter/poet Ruth Poniarski bravely presents a portrait of her younger self in the New York of the late 1770s and early 1980s when, after unintentionally ingesting PCP…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/22/22 Redeemable deplorables. For his first full-length feature, award-winning French animator Pierre Perifel (Bilby) has chosen DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys debuting in theaters this Friday. Based on the Scholastic book series by Aaron Blabey, the DreamWorks Animation family-friendly caper comedy is sort of…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The good stuff. Country music legend Dolly Parton, movie icon legend Sylvester Stallone and popular comedian/sitcom star Jim Gaffigan are among those whose work is being honored at the 67th annual Christopher Awards, to be presented in New York City on May 19th, 2016. The awards, which were created…

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