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Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. This just in: The season finale of GSN’s hit series The American Bible Challenge has revealed its winner.  Team Wagner Warriors are the Season 2 champions. After winning two rounds of the intense competition, Team Wagner Warriors of Owasso and Tulsa, OK, went on…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Drawing on faith. With a goal of becoming the world’s largest publisher of Christian-themed graphic novels,  Kingstone Comics will debut Eternity, the first graphic novel by New York Times best-selling author Randy Alcorn, in June. Kingstone CEO Art Ayris sees graphic novels as the next…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Here are the details: Variety’s second-annual Faith and Family Entertainment Summit, in association with Rogers & Cowan,  will be held June 21st at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Events will include a keynote conversation with Mark Burnett and Roma Downey in which they’ll…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. They’ve got game. This Thursday (May 23rd) at 9pm (ET), the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist will square off against the Wagner Warriors and the Girls of Grace face off in a final competition on the season finale of  GSN’s American…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The rant ends. My five-day rambling imagining what the newly-announced 2013-2014 broadcast network schedules would look like if designed by someone (like me) who believes they would find renewed audience interest by offering programming that the universal values of faith in God, kindness, forgiveness,…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Eyeing CBS. Nearing the end now of my annual indulgence about how to revive the sinking broadcast networks with programming promoting the universal values like faith in God, kindness, forgiveness, gratitude, tolerance, wisdom, personal responsibility and the all-important ability to laugh at one’s own…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The ABCs of family-friendly programming. Continuing my rant on how the broadcast networks could reestablish themselves as positive cultural forces promoting the universal values like faith in God, kindness, forgiveness, gratitude, tolerance, wisdom, personal responsibility and the all-important ability to laugh at one’s own…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Note: This week, the broadcast networks are announcing their 2013-2014 schedules. Yesterday, I offered my thoughts on how NBC could improve its fortunes next season by moving away from so-called edgy programming toward shows that uplifted as they entertained. Now, it’s on to Fox.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. It’s time for a new direction. Okay, I’m out. I not only write about TV and for TV, I’m a would-be TV programmer.  It’s not only that I think developing TV concepts and lineups would be a lot of fun. I also think it…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. O Romeo, Romeo, what doth thou story teach us? Romeo and Juliet are, perhaps, literature’s most iconic lovers — but does their story reflect a specifically Christian world view. Literary biographer Joseph Pearce says yes — because their creator William Shakespeare was a closeted…
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