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Vanessa Hudgens to star in pregnant teen drama + “Odette’s Secrets” gets Bluebonnet nomination + Grammy-winner Steven Curtis supports adoption
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. No High School Musical. Former Disney Channel star Vanessa Hudgens will get a chance to demonstrate her acting chops in Gimme Shelter. Set for an early 2014 release, Hudgens plays Apple, a homeless pregnant teenager whose life is turned around when she lands in…
Child lit author Maryann MacDonald talks about writing “The Christmas Cat” and “Odette’s Secrets”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The storyteller. Maryanne MacDonald has a gift for writing children’s stories that appeal to adults as well. Her latest work, The Christmas Cat (which imagines a relationship between the Child Jesus and a cat), is available today (10/17). She says it, as well as…
Grammy winner uses Twitter to help orphans + Catholic filmmaker’s movie gets Kickstarted
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 10/10/10. 10,000 sponsors to help 10,000 orphans over the next 10 years. That’s the goal of Grammy-winner Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth as they launch a Twitter campaign this Thursday (10/10) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the nonprofit orphan care…
Famed author Mary Higgins Clark on faith, optimism and how she and her daughter Carol came to collaborate on a TV pilot
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Mystery Mom. Yesterday, I posted my conversation with mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark about her collaboration with her mother — and literary inspiration — the Mary Higgins Clark on The Mystery Cruise, a backdoor pilot for Hallmark Movie Channel airing Saturday night (10/5) at…
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