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“Courageous” filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Expanding horizons. Perhaps no name is more synonymous with the rise of grass-roots faith-based filmmaking than Alex Kendrick who, with his brother Stephen, built Sherwood Pictures, the movie-making ministry of Albany, Georgia-based Sherwood Baptist Church. Through four progressively complex and successful films (Flywheel, Facing…
Producer Mario Costabile believes multimedia stage show “Array of Hope” is music to the ears of Catholic parents
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Catholic evangelization hits a high note. In November of 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released its strategic plan for 2013-2016 titled “The New Evangelization/Journey with Christ: Faith-Worship-Witness.” In it, the bishops urged US Catholics to encounter Christ more fully through greater participation…
Highlights from the 2013 Movieguide Report to the Entertainment Industry (Pt. 2)
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. More data from Movieguide proving the box office power of positive entertainment. 1. In 2012 six Movieguide Award-winning films cracked the box office top ten. They included The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Madagascar…
God and Hollywood: Notes from the Variety Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Media Summit
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A Common Purpose. For the second consecutive year, Variety (in coordination with the P.R. firm Rogers & Cowan) held a day-long gathering of distributors, producers, writers, directors, actors and others who are the faces behind the current boom in uplifting entertainment — which, BTW,…
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