Faith, Media and Culture

Here are today dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Jon Stewart take on Viacom’s spitting match with DirecTV (via The Wrap): “Viacom and DirecTV, what are you doing here? You got ad campaigns blaming each other for taking the shows away, telling people to “rise up and demand it” like some kind…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of Faith, media and culture. In this space yesterday, Reverend Peter Panagore talked about a 1980 ice-climbing snafu that resulted an apparent near-death experience that forever altered his outlook on life.  Here, he talks about the years that followed, including his current tenure as pastor of the First Radio…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of Faith, media and culture. Peter Panagore currently serves as the fifth pastor of the First Radio Parish Church of America which was established in 1926 to utilize the then relatively-new broadcast medium to bring the Gospel to the people. At first that task was accomplished through a literal…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. For Greater Glory and The Way score ALMA nominations.  The National Council of La Raza has announced this year’s American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award nominees and two faith film are prominently represented. For Greater Glory,  the historical action epic Mexico’s Cristero War for…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. GMC TV continues to build its Uplifting Entertainment brand. The cable channel has just added 7th Heaven to its roster of classic family series that includes The Waltons, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Family Ties, Sister Sister and the hit Canadian import Heartland.…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. How one little movie can make a big difference.  Written and produced by Psych‘s Corbin Bernsen (who also directed and stars) 25 Hill  (available now on DVD) helped raise money and awareness in support of the financially-struggling  Akron, Ohio based Soap Box Derby. The…

Good to be back from my time off catching up on other writing projects. But I’ve been keeping up with things in the faith/media sector while I’ve been away — even traveling to San Diego to witness the making of a new video series and feature film on the insights and teachings of the evangelical…

Today’s special dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture are comprised of notes from the Variety Family Entertainment & Faith Based Summit that was held in LA last Thursday. I just flew back and, boy, are my arms tired. Incredibly lame jokes aside, the event provided ample evidence that family and faith-supportive entertainment…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. People of faith understand that the answer to the above question is an unambiguous “No.” Science can actually bolster faith. The two films discussed here make that case. The first is a drama. The second is a documentary. 1. The Genesis Code. After…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. I recently had the opportunity to speak with a man named Jerry Zandstra who just may be the definition of the modern-day Renaissance man. As the president of his JLZ Group, the married father of three sons offers clients his expertise as a political…

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