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Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 11/20/20 Freedom of speech is a religious liberty and human rights issue that affects us all. Skepticism is a word that is dangerously out of fashion these days. A lack of tolerance for dissenting thought is what makes theocracies so dangerous. I don’t care…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 11/18/20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef8fPZjdsww Songs from the heartland. In the six-episode Netflix reality series Voices of Fire (shot before COVID restrictions) playing now, singer Pharrell Williams, his uncle Bishop Ezekiel Williams and an A-list team of judges that includes music director Larry George, vocal coach Peggy…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 11/16/20 With The Farmer and the Belle, are Jenn Gotzon and Jim E. Chandler launching a faith and family friendly Desilu? If you’re a television nerd like me, you may recognize Desilu as the production company formed by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in the…

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYL4Osyipc&feature=emb_logo 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”…

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp2PfturEO4 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…
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