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ABC stations to air “Mother Teresa: No Greater Love” + Paving the way for musical Christmas epic “Journey to Bethlehem”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/22/23 October is Mother Teresa Month. Perhaps not officially but with the biopic Mother Teresa & Me due in theaters as a one-night Fathom Event on Thursday, October 5th and the fact that, through a deal with the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, the above one-hour…
Gender Bender: The Babylon Bee takes on the battle of the sexes – all of them!
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/20/23 The birds and the bees and absolutely anything else you can possibly think of. Having previously explained Democracy and Wokeness, the decidedly anti-Woke keepers of the satirical website The Babylon Bee are out with their third Guide book. Helpfully called The Babylon Bee…
A pastor issues an “Urgent” cultural call to people of faith + Opportunity at ABC
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/18/23 Silence is compliance. So suggests Atlanta-based Worship with Wonders Church Pastor Myles Rutherford. In his new book Raise Your Voice: An Urgent Call to Speak Out in a Collapsing Culture, due out tomorrow, he sounds the alarm over silence and complacency in the…
Great American Media brand grows + Shari Rigby is a woman of influence + Amazon Prime biopic “A Million Miles Away” soars + Coming attractions
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/15/23 Blue sky TV rises. For the tenth consecutive month Great American Family is television’s fastest-growing network, this after growing its total day audience by 169% in August. The channel, a subsidiary of Great American Media (which is partly owned by Sony) is run…
Two new books tackle the concepts of accepting God’s will and the pursuit of happiness. Is there a conflict?
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/13/23 An impenetrable mystery. That’s how biographer Ellen Vaughn says the late Christian philosopher Elisabeth Elliot viewed the interplay between God and human choice. Speaking with me about her just released book Being Elisabeth Elliot for an interview currently up on The Acton Institute…
9/11 Perspectives: 22 years after a religious scholar still has “Unanswered Questions” and a Christian financial planner says America remains a great investment
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/11/23 In search of answers. I first spoke with Ray McGinnis, the Canadian religious scholar, Psalm expert and unlikely 9/11 investigator almost exactly two years ago about his then-new book Unanswered Questions: What the September 11th Families Asked and What the 9/11 Commission Ignored.…
“Freedom” is victorious in Latin America + Coming Attractions
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/08/23 The sleeper summer blockbuster Sound of Freedom reaches a new milestone. After shocking industry experts with its stellar domestic success, the Angel Studios film that dramatically tackles the issue international child sex trafficking has claimed the #1 spot in 18 countries throughout Latin…
In “Are We There Yet?” comedian Jeff Allen finds the funny – and meaning – in despair
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/06/23 Jeff Allen arrives. In his new memoir Are We There Yet? – My Journey from a Messed Up to a Meaningful Life the 67-year-old veteran comedian somehow finds the funny in Ecclesiastes, the biblical book he says God used to rescue him from…
The summer of “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer”, “Freedom”, Nikki Haley & Neptune + A Guardian Angel gets arrested in NYC + “Never Give Up” serves up the inspiring real-life story of deaf tennis legend Brad Minns
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/01/23 Since I went off the grid off the grid in August: My wife and I saw Barbie. We originally intended to see Oppenheimer but the play times didn’t work out for us. While I still think those Barbenheimer memes were beyond crass, Barbie…
Will “The Hill” be the next faith-themed true story to hit it out of the box office park?
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 07/31/23 In 2023, the fact-based faith-themed hits keep coming. Box office successes like Jesus Revolution (hitting Netflix today) and Sound of Freedom (still holding strong at #4 in its 4th week of release) are proving that there’s a large audience for movies featuring real-life…
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