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Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/05/24 East meets west. Born in Seoul to an American soldier and a Korean mother in the wake of the Korean War, Newsong Church Founder & Pastor Dave Gibbons has long struggled to come to terms with his Korean roots and his American upbringing. His…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/03/24 Audiences double down on the Gipper. Widely projected to make $5 million at the box office, the biopic Reagan starring Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States surprised box office prognosticators by doubling the $5 million box office take they…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/30/24 Ronald Reagan’s optimistic message still resonates in Reagan (in theaters today). While it’s predictable that wokestream media critics will do their best to dismiss the film as a puff piece (basically my view of last night’s overly hyped, overly produced and overly edited…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/26/24 Better off Ted. TV vet Ted McGinley is known for his long-running roles in such classic series as Happy Days, The Love Boat and Married…with Children. In all three of those cases he successfully stepped in after a prominent original cast member exited.…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/26/24 Day of infamy. Former President Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery this morning to take part in a wreath laying ceremony honoring the 13 American service members killed three years ago today in the horrible Abbey Gate attack outside an airport in Kabul during…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/22/24 Media Scroll: Ugly stuff. Two items from The New York Post resonated with me this week. Under the headline “Led by Obama, Democrats schoolyard tactics mirror Trump‘s trash-talking tactics,”columnist Bethany Mandel argues that the Kamala Harris Campaign is engaging in exactly the kind…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/21/24 From left to right. The legendary actor Jon Voight started his acting career in Broadway in the 1960s He soon moved on to television guest roles in classic series such as Naked City, The Defenders, 12 O’Clock High and Gunsmoke before his career…

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The case for prayer. Certainly the state of the world today suggests a pretty good reason to try prayer. It’s not a practice that is celebrated very often in today’s media. Often, they’ll go after someone who dares offer “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy – particularly one involving guns. I’m actually all for reasonable…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/15/24 The healing arts. Ideally, the arts, particularly storytelling, offers society insights into healing our wounds and moving forward with greater wisdom. Whether or not modern-day movies very often accomplish that (or even aspire to) is, at best, a hit-or-miss proposition. Jonathan E. Lim,…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/14/24 Everything is your fault. Overall, you’re quite deplorable – and every good person agrees with me. Those are pretty much the claims of every purveyor or negative religion throughout the millennia toward those who don’t believe exactly as they do (and, let me…
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