Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/22/24 Media Scroll: Ugly stuff. Two items from The New York Post resonated with me this week. Under the headline “Led by Obama, Democrats schoolyard tactics mirror Trump‘s trash-talking tactics,”columnist Bethany Mandel argues that the Kamala Harris Campaign is engaging in exactly the kind…

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The case for prayer. Certainly the state of the world today suggests a pretty good reason to try prayer. It’s not a practice that is celebrated very often in today’s media. Often, they’ll go after someone who dares offer “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy – particularly one involving guns. I’m actually all for reasonable…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 07/19/24 40 years ago Dennis Quaid voted for Ronald Reagan – now he’s playing him. The veteran actor has earned a reputation for nailing portrayals of historic icons –  from astronaut Gordon Cooper in 1983’s The Right Stuff to Bill Clinton in 2010’s The…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 07/12/24 “The Bible is amazing but sometimes confusing and hard to read.” With that understatement of the millennia, so begins The Bible in 10 Minutes. As of this writing, the video has received 937,680 views on YouTube since dropping on Tuesday. The easy-to-understand highly-abridged…

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