Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/28/21 Blue Miracle sets sail from Houston. The inspirational nautical drama, which dropped yesterday on Netflix, was blessed with a special send off and screening at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church last night. Star/Houston native Dennis Quaid introduced the movie saying “I personally want to…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/26/21 Well cast. Movie legend Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff, Soul Surfer, I Can Only Imagine) and promising film newcomer Jimmy Gonzalez (AMC’s Lodge 49,  FX’s Mayans M.C.) are both on board Netflix’ inspirational fishing drama. Inspired by true events,  Blue Miracle tells the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/24/21 In one era, out the other. And, just maybe, back in again. The Big 4 broadcast entertainment networks have unveiled their Fall 2021 Prime Time Schedules for advertisers last week. With exceptions, it’s mostly a standard mix of repetitive reality formats, smug sitcoms…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/19/21 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. As the psalm says, Donald Whitehead believes God was with him during the depths of his five years of homelessness and credits…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/17/21 Inspired by a true story…Blue Miracle, chronicling the adventure washed-up sea captain Wade Malloy (Dennis Quaid) who in 2014 was reluctantly teamed with idealistic Cabo San Lucas orphanage caretaker Omar Venegas (Jimmy Gonzales) and his young charges in a high-stakes fishing competition to…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/14/21 Review: Finding You is Notting Hill for a new generation. If you’ve been waiting for Hollywood to rediscover how to do a romcom, you’re wait is over as Finding You arrives in theaters today. The film is both a well-made throwback to the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/12/21 Sarah J. Robinson once believed her lifelong battle with depression made her a bad Christian. Now, the author of the new book I Love Jesus, but I Want to Die: Finding Hope in the Darkness of Depression (WaterBrook) is speaking out to help others…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/10/21 Dangerous times. He has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and was the Independent Counsel whose investigation of President Clinton led to only the second presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history (following by 130 years the acquittal of President Andrew Johnson…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/07/21 Two pros take a swing at bringing a beloved golf parable to the big screen. From the set of the upcoming film The Mulligan (based on the beloved novel The Mulligan: A Parable of Second Chances by Ken Blanchard & Wally Armstrong), Eric Close (Nashville,…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/05/21 Keeping Faith. Fatima simultaneously debuted on VOD and in theaters last August but, in the midst of a pandemic, relatively few people made the pilgrimage to the local theater to take in the story of one of the world’s most famous miracles on…

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