Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Heart finds its home. When Hallmark Channel’s second original prime-time series When Calls the Heart begins filming this summer, it will mark the first time a TV series has been shot in Telluride, Colorado and will be the first scripted TV series in the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Cultural turning point. Man of Steel soared at the box office over the weekend — pulling in an astounding (and record-breaking) $125 million in North America. The super feat was at least partially as a result of a deliberate marketing decision to highlight the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A super faith-based film.  You don’t have to be a Christian to enjoy Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder’s heartfelt, high-voltage reboot of the most iconic of all superheroes, but it helps. Officially opening tomorrow (Friday), I’m not certainly not the first to preview the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Valuing fathers. This Father’s Day, ASPiRE, the positive TV network founded by NBA legend Magic Johnson, will feature special programming celebrating the importance of dads. The centerpiece of Sunday’s special line-up will be the world television premiere of the critically-acclaimed, conversation-starting documentary From Fatherless…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Sing and a prayer hit. The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles continue their hold on Billboard magazine’s Classical Traditional Music Chart. For the fourth straight week Angels and Saints at Ephesus collection of sacred music sits at #1 on the list. The Missouri-based…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Team Touhy takes on television. Family Addition with Leigh Anne Touhy, premieres tonight (Friday, June 7 @ 9:00 PM ET), is the first new original to  premiere on UP since the Uplifting Entertainment network formerly known as GMC TV  changed its name last Saturday.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Movin’ on UP.  This past weekend (June 1) GMC TV officially began operating under its new moniker. The new name is simply UP, as in Uplifting Programming. Founded in 2004 as The Gospel Music Channel by Charley Humbard, the entrepreneurial son of the groundbreaking…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Uplifting Entertainment UPdate. As of midnight this morning (June 1) GMC TV — which began its life in 2004 as a cable channel focused on gospel music and has grown into a full-scale entertainment network — underwent a name change. UP is  intended to…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Story ARC. Space Warriors, the second original installment of the new weekly Walden Family Theater franchise, premieres tonight (May 31) at 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel. The production, which stars Mira Sorvino, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas, Danny Glover  and Thomas Horn (Extremely Loud and…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Space Warriors to the rescue! The film, the second original installment of the new weekly Walden Family Theater  franchise debuts this Friday (May 31) at 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel. Space Warriors tells the story of six highly-skilled teenagers hand-picked to be part…

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