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Ricky Schroder champions a “Patriotic PBS” + Canyon Star TV’s expansion plans + Film producers partner with RIP Medical Debt
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John W. Kennedy
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.…
Podcaster/entrepreneur Jordan Raynor on “The Sacredness of Secular Work” + Actor George Newbern (“Scandal”) guests on hit Pure Flix hospice drama “Going Home”
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John W. Kennedy
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…
Celebrating its 1st birthday, faith and family-friendly streamer Canyon Star TV is free to consumers and open to content providers
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John W. Kennedy
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…
Connecting a Fox Nation documentary on illiberalism at Ivy League universities to “Frasier” + Oscar vs. Movie Guide Awards + Angel Studios names its first music chief
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John W. Kennedy
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…
“Going Home” creator Dan Merchant brings personal life experience to his groundbreaking Great American Pure Flix dramedy series about dying
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John W. Kennedy
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…
Three reasons Ron DeSantis flamed out
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John W. Kennedy
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,…
A black fetus goes viral and an African-American pastor makes the case that legal abortion is akin to racial genocide
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John W. Kennedy
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…
Polling for Dollars: Campaign Reform advocate Dan McMillan is still pushing to reduce Big Money influence on elections
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/17/24 $aving democracy. That seems to be a major catchphrase for Campaign ’24 – though there is disagreement across the land on where the threat is coming from. Some say the right, some say the left, some say both – and some view money…
Another slow-motion national train wreck is leaving the station tonight in Iowa
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/15/24 Is this what the world is coming to? Campaign 2024 officially gets underway today in Iowa. Whatever the results, the year ahead is looking to be a wild one that will claw at the seams of the national fabric. The upcoming movie Civil…
Coming Attractions: Lee Greenwood in “A Nashville Wish” + Alejandro Monteverde’s “Cabrini” + “Homestead” (based on bestselling “Black Autumn” series of novels)
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/12/24 Country legend Lee Greenwood to tackle acting in Vision Films’ coming-of-age drama A Nashville Wish. The film will have a limited theatrical release on Friday, February 2nd and will be available on VOD beginning February 27th. The movie is based on the award-winning…
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