Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/17/21 Fox Nation has picked up the first season of The Chosen. An international hit, the episodic/serialized retelling of the life of Christ (think Lost meets found) is part of Fox Nation’s curated selection of faith-based programming in honor of the upcoming Easter holiday.…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/15/21 And the Woke winner is…The 2021 Academy Award nominees are out today. The eight nominees include two excellent films, The Father and Minari and, honestly, six other movies I haven’t seen. Chances are you haven’t either. Beyond that, my first thought is why…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/12/21 Late night gets an exclamation point! Yes, while the punctuation point in that previous sentence may be redundant, at least the viewpoint will be fresh when Greg Gutfeld brings his comic take on the news to the 11:00 PM (ET) weekday slot on…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/10/21 “If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” That’s the gist of the landmark Counterspeech Doctrine enunciated by Supreme…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/08/21 Life-affirming stories on Lifetime. Hey, that wouldn’t make a bad slogan. Anyway, as Easter weekend approaches, the popular cable network is introducing a pair of faith-themed films that may be of interest to you. First up is the biopic Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia,…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/05/21 Getting personal with Lee Isaac Chung. His fictional family film is, loosely based on his own experience growing up the son of South Korean immigrants living in rural Arkansas, has been honored with awards at Sundance and, just last Sunday, at the Golden…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/03/21 Five Questions for Dana Perino. One of the perks of this job is the opportunity to speak with people whose work I genuinely enjoy. Such is the case with Dana Perino who I catch almost every work day on The Five (weekdays, 5:00…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/01/21 What’s old is new again. Scripted audio entertainment thrived on radio from the 1920’s through much of the 1950s when it largely pushed aside by the advent of television. But the art form is finding renewed life in the emerging era of the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 02/26/21 A comedy filmmaker gets deadly serious. Jared Lawrence Hess first exploded onto the movie-making scene with Napoleon Dynamite, the gently quirky 2004 teen comedy classic he directed and co-wrote with his wife Jerusha. Other comedies followed, including the 20o6’s Nacho Libre (starring Jack…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 02/24/21 Faith & family coming attractions: discovery+ will premiere Resurrection, a feature-length movie from The Bible producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, on March 27, 2021. Following the record breaking-ratings success of their Emmy nominated mini-series The Bible and the hit feature film spin-off…

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