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Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 11/13/20 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, starring Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Madalen Mills, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Justin Cornwell, Lisa Davina Phillip, Kieron L. Dyer and (the voice of) Ricky Martin drops today on Netflix on November 5.  The film is…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 11/09/20 Does this really qualify as a spoof? Alas, there’s little difference between SNL and the actual CNN. Meanwhile, faith leaders are taking sides in how things have shaken out since Election Day. Evangelical leader Jeff Myers says it would be “bad citizenship” not…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 11/06/20 Take heart (and have faith), America! If 2020 –  and the current election battle – has you feeling a little down (trending toward hopeless), the Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling Christian music group Hillsong Worship wants you to know that, in fact, there is…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 11/04/20 You’ve heard of the hit TV series The Good Wife and The Good Doctor. Well, about The Good Shepherd? Actually, the show is called   The Chosen and, hailing from the family-friendly streaming app and original content studio VidAngel, it’s the first-ever, multi-season original…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 11/02/20 Bill Maher, Don Lemon and America’s Great Divide: IMHO: I, for one, essentially side with Bill Maher on this one – as Lemon’s near-cartoonish smugness is a pretty good example of why so many people have such low regard for the media – as…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 10/30/20 A blast from my past. I got my start in media in the early nineties by creating a cable access show called Headliners. It featured a McLaughlin Group-style panel of comedians talking about the news stories of the week. It was an original concept for…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 10/28/20 A dose of eternal vigilance: The Fight of Our Lives: Defeating the Ideological War Against the West can be viewed on Amazon.com and AppleTV. Filmmaker Gloria Z. Greenfield says Western civilization is facing threats from both internal and external ideas and movements. These totalitarian…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 10/26/20 As USA Today reports, the documentary film Francesco (which just debuted at the Rome Film Festival) is bound to be remembered as the occasion in which Pope Francis appeared put the Catholic Church on the side of civil unions for gay people. While that…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 10/22/20 Gospel-themed choir competition drops globally on Netflix on Friday, November 20. Voices of Fire follows Grammy Award-winner/executive producer Pharrell Williams’ uncle Bishop Ezekiel Williams (pastor and founder of Faith World Ministries) as he and his core team of influential gospel leaders seek out  undiscovered…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: 10/21/20 What’s next? Sega Genesis? Actually, the story of David and Goliath is from the Book of Samuel but I just had to go for the joke. Also, it’s Virtuous VR Gaming (not Sega Genesis) that is releasing DvG: Conquering Giants as its debut virtual…
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