Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Note: I took an unexpectedly long weekend when a computer crash upset my plan to post this Monday.  But, thanks to support from the good folks at Carbonite and Geek Squad, I’m up and running again. My thanks to the techies that helped me…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Family adventure. The Hunters (based on the Joshua Williamson graphic novel Mirror, Mirror) debuts tonight (10/25) at 8:00 PM (ET) on The Hallmark Channel’s Walden Family Theater. Synopsis: Based on the infamous magical mirror from Snow White,  the story follows Paxton Flynn (Robert Amell)…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The family business. The Hunters, the fourth original family movie to premiere under the Walden Family Theater banner premieres tomorrow night (10/25) at 8:00 PM (ET) on The Hallmark Channel. Like Return to Nim’s Island, Space Warriors, Dear Dumb Diary and The Watsons Go…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. He said, She Said (Part 1).  Oxygen appears to have a new hit on its hands with Preachers of L.A., its new reality following six successful church pastors from the Southern California area. While generating strong ratings, the show has also sparked a “prosperity Gospel”…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Grammy-nominated, five-time Dove Award-winning Female Artist of the Year Natalie Grant makes her Grand Ole Opry debut tonight (10/22) as Women Rock For The Cure in the fight against breast cancer. The fifth annual Opry Goes Pink show will feature Grant alongside award winning…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Good music. Tonight (10/21) at 8 PM ET, UP TV presents the 44th annual Dove Awards hosted by Amy Grant and Kirk Franklin. The Gospel Music Association event, broadcast live from Nashville’s Lipscomb University, will celebrate the year’s best in inspirational Gospel and Christian music.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Saving Westbrook High premieres tonight (10/20) at 7:00 PM ET in UP TV. Synopsis (from the UP TV website): Manny Cortez is uprooting his family – wife Teresa and daughters Selena, 14 and Gabriella, 12 – so that they can go to Westbrook High…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Baldwin’s back! When I last spoke with Stephen Baldwin, he was talking passionately about directing  singer/songwriter Cory Lamb‘s music video Break the Cycle, which he described as a sort of anthem to all those who are, in one way another, moving from darkness into…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. He shoots! He scores! After a strong limited release opening, Linsanity, the documentary about openly Christian basketball star Jeremy Lin, is expanding into more theaters this weekend. I talked with producer Christopher Chen about how the film came about and what it’s like to…

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…

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