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Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Of course, Strictly by the numbers, it doesn’t add up. From The Wrap: This year, 168 films have carried the “restricted”  (R) rating, which requires youths under 17 to be accompanied by an adult, and they have taken in $2.3 billion at the box…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. You’ve still got it, Charlie Brown! Members of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers may not have not have been among them, but millions tuned into watch ABC’s airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas which continues to be a ratings powerhouse. From Entertainment Weekly: Wednesday…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Facebook for Christians. Not that Christians can’t go on Facebook too, mind you, but 29-year-old Will Landers, the Chief Media Officer of HeavenUp.com, says the social network he represents has a higher calling. Landers was recently recruited to the HeavenUp team by its Chief…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Oprah puts the message first. From The New York Times: The cable network OWN, which she started with Discovery Communications, is emerging from low ratings and management shake-ups…With signs of progress at OWN, Ms. Winfrey now has more time to devote to other media…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Kevin Sorbo = busy guy. While some actors who have TV superheroes may have trouble shaking the typecasting and moving on to other roles, that is certainly not Kevin Sorbo’s problem. The former star of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys has kept busy since that…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. An angel named Della. When GMC TV Vice Chairman Brad Siegel began his search for a new Christmas movie to follow-up on the network’s ratings success last year with the Emmy-nominated film The Heart of Christmas, he had an idea. That was to find…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Lighten up, already! From Fox News Radio: A stage version of the beloved holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has sparked a constitutional controversy at a Little Rock, Ark. grade school. Students at Terry Elementary School had been invited to attend an upcoming performance…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. I recently spoke to Oshea Israel about his experience on the receiving end of Mary Johnson’s extraordinary act of forgiveness, as well as his participation in the I Forgive You program which airs tomorrow night (9/18) @ 9:00 PM, 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. In my review yesterday of GMC TV’s I Forgive You, a praised the show as a welcome antidote to “a TV reality landscape that is too often filled with in-your-face anger” and noted that “forgiveness actually makes for some pretty absorbing television.” It turns…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. “I Forgive You” premieres Sunday on GMC TV. And, it turns out that, in a TV reality landscape that is too often filled with in-your-face anger, forgiveness actually makes for some pretty absorbing television. I recently screened the show, an on-air pilot for a…
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