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Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Daily Show’s below-the-belt shot at Christianity. From The Hollywood Reporter: Some conservatives are crying hypocrisy…over a segment on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart where the host flashed a picture of a naked woman with a tiny Christmas Nativity scene covering her genitals. The…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Heavy rain expected in March of 2014. From The Hollywood Reporter: Paramount and New Regency have settled on a release date for Noah, the Biblical movie to star Russell Crowe that Darren Aronofsky is directing. The new retelling of the Noah’s Ark…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Catholic group slaps the Three Stooges. Then pokes them in their eyes and hits them on their heads with a rubber hammer. Just kidding.  From The Hollywood Reporter:  The Catholic League is in an uproar over the way nuns are depicted in…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Amid controversy, plug is pulled in Mel Gibson’s Judah Maccabee story. From TheWrap: Warner Bros. has put on hold a controversial Mel Gibson movie project about the Jewish Maccabee revolt in the 2nd Century B.C. after reading the script by writer Joe Eszterhas, TheWrap…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. A saint’s story headed for theaters. Filmed in Europe (in English),  Restless Heart: The Confessions of  Augustine , which tells the epic story of  the inspiring saint, is being prepped for a fall release. Says Pope Benedict XVI: “We hope that many…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. The man behind Unlimited. From KSHB.com: Harold Finch hasn’t had a successful career. He’s had several of them. He worked as a NASA scientist, he was an educator, corporate trainer and he now lectures on the keys to success…Now he is executive…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. The Catholics Next Door are on the move! After having conquered the worlds of new media, including podcasts and satellite radio, Greg and Jennifer Willits (their SiriusXM talk show airs live weekdays  @ 1:00 PM ET and is repeated @ 1:00 AM…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The power of positive storytelling. I spent a good part of last week in El Paso — from Tuesday to Thursday — and by “good” I mean very good, as in time well spent. I was there for a media event sponsored by the…

Back from El Paso, Texas where I was on scene for some of the shooting of Unlimited, an upcoming action/suspense film with a strong faith theme running through it.  More on that tomorrow.  Till then, here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Clarence Bucaro and the Child of War.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. October Baby arrives in theaters today. The highly-anticipated film about a teen abortion survivor (Rachel Hendrix) who sets out on an emotional journey to find her birth mother is the passion project of the Jon and Andrew Erwin who produced it together. Andrew and…
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