Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Season 2 of Laff Mobb’s We Got Next premieres tonight 2/4 @ 10:00 PM (ET) on ASPiRE. Billed at an original weekly “clean stand-up” comedy/reality series, Laff Mobb’s We Got Next features two hot young African-American comedians being interviewed by executive producer Bob Sumner…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Life matters. Jason Scott Jones was the emcee of a Students for Live of America event in association with the recent March for Life in Washington D.C.* Though the event was largely ignored by the mainstream media, it reportedly drew about 200,000 in support…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Exodus success. Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus, the one-night documentary theater event I told you about last week played to packed houses across the country Monday night — leading Fathom Events to schedule an encore showing Thursday night (1/29) at 7:00 PM local time.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Larger than life. Manny Pacquiao may be just over 5’6″ inches tall but anyone familiar the champion fighter (the first and only boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions) and his life story realizes that his physical size belies his actual…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Out on DVD today (1/20): Welcome to Inspiration Synopsis: After their car breaks down, a freelance journalist (Britt George) and his wife (Whitney Goin) spend time in a small town where a simple street sweeper (Jackie Stewart)  imparts the “Seven Revelations of Irrefutable Success”…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJzqy7-H_34#t=211  Is Biblical history really history? Ridley Scott’s fictionalized Exodus: Gods and Kings may not have had the box office legs it backers had hoped but those interested in the true story of the Book of Exodus may want to make their way to…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Moving on UP. UP TV has announced that Amy Winter will join the network on February 1 as executive vice president and general manager, a newly created position. She will oversee and creatively guide the network’s brand and programming, including the development and production…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x2HSf-ZQ34 Passing of a visionary. Lowell “Bud” Paxson, the co-creator of Home Shopping Network who later amassed a trove of TV stations and launched the family-friendly network Pax TV, had died at his home in Montana. He was 79. (More @ Variety) Comment: I…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Christian retailer gets into movie-making biz.  Family Christian Entertainment (FCE), the recently-launched sister company of  Family Christian Stores, has announced its first project. Production of 90 Minutes in Heaven will commence January 26th in Atlanta. The film is based on the 2004 New…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Another hit for T.D. Jakes? The famed preacher/author/producer whose inspirational film credits include the 2014 hit Heaven is for Real Where a Man Stands by  Carter Paysinger and Steven Fenton (published by Howard Books/ Simon & Schuster) tells the true story of the authors’…

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