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Alyssa Bormes writes about Catholicism and the art of hockey and scores
Date: 12/09/2013
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Catholicism and hockey? Alyssa Bormes , author of the interesting new book The Catechism of Hockey , has made it her goal to highlight the metaphysical connections between the practice of the Catholic faith and hockey practice -- connections that most of us might miss because, well, who even thinks of such thing ...
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Interview: Steve Coogan of "Philomena"
Date: 11/22/2013
Steve Coogan co-wrote and stars in "Philomena," based on the true story of an Irish woman searching for the son she gave up for adoption fifty years earlier. As an unwed pregnant teenager she was sent to a convent-run home. Her son was taken from her and adopted by an American family. A journalist whose background was in political reporting and had never done a "human interest" story helped he ...
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In DC: I'm Co-Hosting a Series of Pre-Code Films at the Hill Center
Date: 11/10/2013
I'm thrilled to announce that Margaret Talbot and I are co-hosting a steamy series of four films from the early 1930's at Washington DC's Hill Center , starting this Friday with Barbara Stanwyck's "Baby Face." In a film and discussion series that will explore the history of sex and violence in the movies, censorship and the ratings system, we will present four gems of pre-Code cinema. For sev ...
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Hispanics turning evangelical, Jews secular
Date: 11/05/2013
Worship service attendance is up in New York City, but down among young adult Jews, according to recent studies. On the other hand, fewer Spanish-speaking teens are attending Catholic mass, but more are showing up at Evangelical churches. [caption id="attachment_12343" align="alignleft" width="480"] New York kids in a religion class[/caption] A recent Barna study shows not only increased New ...
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Grammy winner uses Twitter to help orphans + Catholic filmmaker's movie gets Kickstarted
Date: 10/07/2013
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 10/10/10. 10,000 sponsors to help 10,000 orphans over the next 10 years. That's the goal of Grammy-winner Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth as they launch a Twitter campaign this Thursday (10/10) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the nonprofit orphan care ministry they founded. Show Hope's Brown Ba ...
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Are All These Christians' Complaints of Persecution Just So Much Empty Whining?
Date: 10/07/2013
The headlines are alarming: “Catholic-Owned Company Wins Religious Freedom Court Decision,” “Death Toll Rises to 65 in Boko Haram Attack on Students,” “Little Sisters Catholic Charity Victimized By Obamacare,” “Christians Sought Out, Murdered in the Kenyan Mall Massacre,” “Judicial Watch Seeks Reason Why ‘So Help Me God’ Removed From U.S. Air Force Oath.” An Egyptian church burns But the me ...
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Famed author Mary Higgins Clark on faith, optimism and how she and her daughter Carol came to collaborate on a TV pilot
Date: 10/03/2013
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edrydSmXO4E Mystery Mom. Yesterday, I posted my conversation with mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark about her collaboration with her mother -- and literary inspiration -- the Mary Higgins Clark on The Mystery Cruise , a backdoor pilot for Hallmark Movie Channel airing Saturday n ...
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