Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Grace Unplugged mini-review. In theaters this weekend, the musical drama follows Grace Trey (AJ Michalka), a talented 18-year-old singer/musician who decides that singing at her church under the controlling thumb of her worship leader father Johnny Trey (James Denton of Desperate Housewives), is not…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Shining Star. In my praise yesterday of the faith-based historical epic Alone Yet Not Alone (opening in select theater tonight – 9/27), I mentioned that the role of Barbara Leininger — one of the two sisters abducted and forced to live among the Delaware…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. This is getting to be a habit. A good habit. I’m talking about my second conversation with Mother Dolores Hart on the occasion of her return to the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut following her recent book tour to promote her memoir…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Mayoral thumbs up. You can count Birmingham Mayor William Bell as among those weighing in with praise for The Watsons Go to Birmingham. Based on the very popular book The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, the world-premiere movie airs tonight (9/20)…

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