Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Fox News Alert. Amid the slow and painful-to-watch collapse of American Idol and generally dismal ratings, programming chief Kevin Reilly is leaving the Fox Broadcasting after about seven years at the helm. It’s definitely time for a change at the network and speculation is…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Faith TV. Three big faith-themed movies debut on TV this weekend. The Color of Rain (Saturday, 5/31, @ 9:00 PM ET on Hallmark Movie Channel) Synopsis (from The Hallmark Movie Channel website): When Matt Kell, husband and father to two young boys, succumbs to…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A shining example of the positive power of words (Pt. 2). Yesterday, I used this space to share some powerful words of wisdom from author/poet Maya Angelou who just passed away at the age of 86. Today, another blast of practical enlightenment. This time…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A shining example of the positive power of words. The renowned author and poet Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Here she is talking with Oprah Winfrey about the revelation that  changed her life. H/T Drudge Report Encourage one another and…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Return to the Hiding Place opens this weekend. Just in time for the Memorial Day holiday, Return to the Hiding Place is a suspense-filled action-packed World War II drama about a ragtag band of Dutch teenagers who risk their lives to thwart the Nazis…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Here’s the story…For those of us who watched The Brady Bunch growing up and wondered whether bringing two families together after one had recently lost its mother and the other its father really could really be that void of any real emotion, the answer…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Out of the shadows. With the Boko Haram situation in Nigeria in the headlines, the recently released film Honor Diaries seems particularly well timed to encourage discussion about the treatment of women under the harsh application of espoused by radical Islamists. The documentary features…

Honoring the best in us. I attended the 65th annual Christopher Awards ceremony last Thursday recognizing those who use the power of communication to uphold the Catholic organizations motto (and Chinese proverb) that “It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness” Father David T. Link [right] receives  of the James Keller Award…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. “It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” That’s the motto of The Christophers, a Catholic organization founded in 1945 by a Maryknoll priest named Fr. James Keller. Keller believed that the power to positively shape the future lies within individual…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The story behind Ragamuffin. This gem of a movie (from The Color Green Films), based on the life and legacy of best-selling Christian music singer/songwriter Rich Mullins (Awesome God)who tragically died in a 1997 car crash, was recently released on DVD and is available…

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