Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The six-part event series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman premieres Sunday, April 3 @ 9:00 PM ET on National Geographic Channel. NatGeo’s ambitious series will look at such perpetual questions as Who is God? Where did we come from? Why does evil happen?…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Small Town, Big Mayor airs Thursday (3/31) @ 9:30 PM (ET) on UP TV. The small town of D’Lo, Mississippi has one town hall, one masonic lodge, 240 cows, three swimming holes, 74 rocking chairs, three churches and 456 big-hearted residents, including Mayor John…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Fathom Events and Eakin Films are bringing Come to the Garden – On Stage! to select U.S. cinemas for one night on Tuesday, May 3 at 7:00 p.m. local time. This exclusive event includes a post-event discussion with special guest and New York Times…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The Passion, a two-hour epic musical event, will air LIVE from New Orleans this Palm Sunday (3/20) at 8:00 PM ET on FOX.This version of The Passion is written by Peter Barsocchini (High School Musical) of course tells the 2,000-year-old story of the last hours…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Jennifer Garner on playing Christy Beam in Miracles from Heaven in theaters now. She is flanked by producers DeVon Franklin and T.D. Jakes on her and the film’s subjects Anna and Christy Beam to her right. Synopsis (from the film’s press release): Miracles from Heaven is based on the incredible…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Good Heavens! Miracles from Heaven (which I reviewed here yesterday) opened yesterday in 3,o47 theaters nationwide and drew in a healthy $1.9 million at the box office. The film, based on a true story of miracles that include a child’s cure from a devastating illness) and the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.S Miracles from Heaven premieres in theaters today (3/16). Synopsis (from the film’s press release): Miracles from Heaven is based on the incredible true story of the Beam Family. When Christy Beam (Jennifer Garner) discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) has a rare, incurable disease, she…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.   Car Trek. Addie Zierman is a popular blogger and writer whose first book, When We Were On Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love and Starting Over (Convergent Books), was named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the best books of 2013. Night Driving: A Story…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The power of exposed scars and healing faith. As someone who has experienced depression, I admire all the more those book authors who face down the darkness in their journey toward the light, sharing their experiences and often exposing their own scars to help others…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Heads UP. I just watched the film festival-winning short film with all the delight of finding a lost episode of The Twilight Zone. It’s the story of Simon (Brian Stepanek of Disney Channel’s Suite Life of Zack and Cody), a self-doubting entrepreneur battling the…

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