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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…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Risen opens nationwide in theaters tomorrow (2/19). Synopsis (from the film’s website): Risen is the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection, as told through the eyes of a non-believer. Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius (Tom Felton), are…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. From Sony’s AFFIRM FILMS division,  Risen tells the epic story of Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), a non-believing Roman Military official assigned to find Jesus’ missing body following the Resurrection. Maria Botto plays Mary Magdalene. The film was screened at the Vatican last week and in…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Healing Music. Jeannie Ortega, who I have come to know through some Mastermedia events, was just 19 when she found success as a recording artist via the hit 2006 album No Place Like BKLYN. Here she is talking about her personal faith journey and…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Luther meets the Pope. Joseph Fiennes, who played Protestant Reformation initiator Martin Luther in a 2003 biopic,  met Pope Francis in Vatican City yesterday. Fiennes is in the city with actress Mario Botto and the producers of Sony Pictures’ upcoming faith-themed film Risen which…

Born to Win (Lionsgate Home Entertainment) arrives on DVD (plus Digital) and On Demand today (2/15). From the producer of the hit faith film Faith Like Potatoes, which sold over 2.2 million DVDs in 17 languages worldwide, the moving drama is based on the true story of Leon Terblanche, a teacher at a school for…

Francis the First. In a cinematic first, Pope Francis will become the first pontiff to act in a scripted movie. In AMBI Pictures’ Beyond the Sun, Pope Francis portrays himself in an inspirational story based on Gospel parables. The concept for the feature film is said to have emanated from Francis himself who asked the…

Building on its successful Love Finds You romantic movie franchise, UP TV will debut Love Finds You In Valentine (#LoveFindsYou) on Valentine’s Day, Sunday, February 14 at 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM (ET). Based on the popular book by Irene Brand, the Nebraska-set movie stars Diogo Morgado (Son Of God, The Messengers), Michaela McManus (Aquarius, One Tree…
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