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Amazon Prime Video slate embraces themes of traditional faith and blue sky patriotism
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/14/24 Amazon Prime Video held its inaugural upfront presentation in New York City this morning. The traditional hype week for the broadcast networks has seen some of its thunder stolen by the streamer which is leaning into the sort of faith-friendly and patriotic programming…
Serial TV game and reality show creator and “The Visionary in Charge” author Dave Noll on the enduring appeal of aspirational, optimistic and family-friendly TV
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/03/24 Thinking outside the box. In Part 1 of my conversation with prolific TV show creator Dave Noll (Chopped, America’s Says, among others), the author of The Visionary in Charge: 7 Simple Rules…Because Just One Extraordinary Idea Can Change Your Life shared his learned…
Fun and passion is the name of the game for visionary TV show creator Dave Noll + Flannery O’Connor biopic in theaters Friday + Don McLean, Home Free and “Vincent”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 05/01/24 Believing is seeing. I first met Dave Noll in 2002 when he held a development position at a New York-based production company company called City Lights Television which had optioned a sci-fi drama pilot I wrote. Since then he has gone on to…
Veteran Christian comedian Chonda Pierce on why “Life is Funny Until It’s Not”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: o4/29/24 What’s so funny? Christian comedian Chonda Pierce reflects on her three-decade-plus career and finding the balance between humor that heals and humor that doesn’t in her new book Life is Funny Until It’s Not: A Comic’s Story of Love, Loss, and Lunacy: A…
Fox News’ Dr. Nicole Saphier offers personal stories of motherhood in “Love, Mom” + Movie Preview: “The Forge”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/26/24 “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” So, says the novelist Lance Conrad (The Price of Creation). As if to prove his point, Fox News Medical Contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier relays true tales of heroic moms meeting the often daunting challenges of…
Bill Maher’s controversial pro-life defense + Producer Ashley Bratcher takes on historic drug industry scandal with “Pharma”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/23/24 Bill Maher makes everyone mad. On Friday the Real Time host declared himself a defender of children for (rightly) taking on the entertainment industry’s treatment of children. Apart from a bit of praise for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (which, at the very least,…
Eric Metaxas says “Religionless Christianity” can save America and the world
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/22/24 Faith – combined with action – can turn things around. That’s the essentially hopeful message put forth by author/radio host Eric Metaxas in his new book Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil which, nonetheless, continues to sound the alarm (put forth in both…
Dog The Bounty Hunter finds God + “Reagan” biopic sets release date
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/19/24 How God caught Dog the Bounty Hunter. In his third book, Nine Live and Counting, ex-con/fugitive chaser/reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman retraces a life of that began with missteps but somehow led to faith, hope and redemption. JWK: This is your third…
Broadway star Laura Osnes lights up Great American Media’s “Just in Time”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/17/24 Programming Alert: After premiering on the Great American Family linear channel last month, Candace Cameron Bure Presents: Just in Time is now streaming on Great American Pure Flix. Starring the popular Drama Desk Award-winning musical theater performer (for Broadway’s Cinderalla) and rising TV romcom…
“The Hopeful” Director Kyle Portbury reflects on the origin story of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and what it says about the Second Coming of Christ
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/16/24 What does the Second Coming actually mean? The Hopeful (in theaters this Wednesday and Thursday as a Fathom Event) explores the question of what it really means to wait for Jesus in its telling of the true story of the star of the…
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