Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 02/09/24 Line of scrimmage. Last June, Joe Kennedy (no relation) held the line against the legal assault on free speech and worship when he won his Supreme Court case stemming from his dismissal from his football coaching job at Bremerton High School in Washington…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 02/07/24 See no evil, speak no evil. It’s been nearly two years since I spoke with radio host and author Eric Metaxas about his Letter to American Church. In the book he posited that there are disturbing parallels between the pre-Holocaust Germany of the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 02/05/24 Survivor. With a signature song that also perfectly serves as as a fitting theme for her life, a seventies superstar reflects on the life that led up to the aptly titled film documentary Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive which debuts in theaters next…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 02/02/24 An actor who won’t pretend. If there was ever a natural actor it’s Ricky Schroder. He was just nine days shy of his ninth birthday when, without ever having taken a single acting lesson, he made his film debut in 1979’s The Champ.…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/31/24 Appreciating the eternal value of work. I’ve previously spoken with entrepreneur and Mere Christians podcaster Jordan Raynor about his previous books, including Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present & Wildly Productive and The Creator in You, in which he…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/29/24 When you wish a upon a Star. Move over, Disney+. Saturday marked the first anniversary of the launch of the upstart faith and family (and free) streamer Canyon Star TV by country music singer and media visionary Joey Canyon and his programming-savvy business…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/26/24 Bordering on Madness. If your finding yourself scratching your head wondering how America has produced political leaders who don’t believe America’s southern border is worth maintaining, you might want to catch watch Poison Ivy. That’s the really on-target title of a documentary I…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/24/24 Merchant of death? Sure, Dan Merchant gained industry cred as a producer, writer and director for the zombie-focused Syfy horror series Z Nation and is currently performing all those services on Going Home, the hospice-centered dramedy he created currently streaming on Great American…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/22/24 From the Washington Post (following the Iowa Caucus): Republican front-runner Donald Trump added Iowa’s most religious regions to his strongholds in Monday’s caucuses. He combined religious areas with the state’s lower-income and less educated counties to pull a majority of all caucus voters,…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/19/24 From CNN: At first glance, the image looks like a standard drawing that could easily be found in the pages of a medical textbook or on the walls of a doctor’s office. But what sets apart the illustration of a fetus in the…

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