Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/23/22 Fresh from TV’s NCIS: New Orleans and The Fast and the Furious film franchise, Lucas Black heads up a faith-themed family adventure for AFFIRM Originals and Pure Flix. In Legacy Peak, which dropped on the Pure Flix streaming service yesterday, he plays Jason,…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/14/22 Team Dad. As we celebrate World Gratitude Day, Jeff Kemp (who I actually spoke with in July) expresses why we all owe a debt of gratitude to all the unsung great fathers out there who are doing their best with often minimal appreciation…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/19/22 Eric’s epistle. Tomorrow (9/20), Eric Metaxas – the Salem Radio Network host and bestselling evangelical biographer (Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/16/22 Deadline reports this year’s Emmys were DOA, falling to an all-time low in ratings  in terms of ratings and dropping double digits from last year. Why? Take a look at the nominees and winners. HBO‘s critical darling Succession (with a season finale that…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/14/22 Passing Starr. Ken Starr is most known as the independent counsel whose investigation of President Clinton in the nineties led to only the second impeachment of a president in U.S. history, the first against Andrew Johnson over 100 years earlier. Alas, we have…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/12/22 9/12 + 21. Our hearts go out to all those who lost loved ones on 9/11/01, including all those who spoke at yesterday’s World Trade Center commemoration shown below. It’s been said that America was never more united than on 9/12/01 and, perhaps,…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/09/22 On Film: Mother Teresa: No Greater Love, a documentary on the remarkable life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of her death, had its world premiere at The Vatican on August 31st. Its U.S. premiere happens this…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/07/22 Separation of Mirth and State. I recently spoke with Kyle Mann, Editor-in-Chief of the red-hot fake news site The Babylon Bee (which. at least by some estimates, has even surpassed The Onion in web traffic) about The Babylon Bee’s Guide to  Democracy: How…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/02/22 Friday Media Scroll: Bad Politics Edition Quote of the Week: Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. – Desiderata by Max Ehrmann © 1927 Timeless wisdom. Unfortunately, in…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/31/22 Russian President Vladimir Putin and California Governor Gavin Newsom are both seriously increasing the potential for nuclear catastrophe. That’s according to Harvey Wasserman, the alarmingly prescient author and anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman,  the alarmingly prescient author and anti-nuclear “prophet of horror” I first …

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