Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: It’s the dog days of summer in a year that will go down as one of the stressful in modern American history. Between the pandemic, crippled economy, soaring crime rates and a media and politicians that seem more intent on fanning racial and cultural divides…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: Fox News Channel will broadcast a one-hour special entitled One Nation hosted by Lawrence Jones this Sunday night (7/26) at 10:00 PM ET.  The program will examine the state of race relations in the United States from the perspectives of civil rights activists, legislators, law…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: New movies are back (maybe). With rereleases of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Black Panther (2018), Inside Out (2015), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Goonies (1985) making up the top five films at the (largely drive-in) box office last week, traditional theater goers accustomed to…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: A time to heal. As I wrote last time, in 2020 America desperately needs a Healing Agenda to treat our national auto-immune dis-ease brought on by a steady cultural, media and political diet of inflammatory negative energy – the symptoms of which are various combinations…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: What’s wrong with US? Over the years I’ve faced bouts of depression related to religion that probably – at least in part – are traceable to my childhood years falling asleep on a cot in my parents’ bedroom while – as my father worked the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: Why can’t our politicians and media speak like this? When I first saw this ad last night, I had no idea what Masimo was or what it did but the message genuinely floored me. This is the optimism and self-image our nation needs right now. We’re…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: IMHO Honor all black lives. I write this two days after the funeral of George Floyd, the African-American man brutally murdered at the knee of a psychotic Minneapolis cop. It’s also the day after the funeral for David Dorn, the retired police commander senselessly slain…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: Five questions for Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt Growing up in South Carolina, Ainsley Earhardt originally wanted to be an orthodontist but eventually realized that it wasn’t the career for her. After some reflection, she enrolled in USC’s journalism school. She graduated and went…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: A ride through the real life of foster care and adoption. As National Foster Care Awareness Month draws to a close, the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture and the National Review Institute are presenting a virtual conversation with foster care/adoption advocates, including John Buultjens, an adoption…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith and media: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Those immortal words opening the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities sum up my feelings about 2020, a years that will be remembered for a cruel pandemic, economic catastrophe, murder hornets…

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