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“Courageous” filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Expanding horizons. Perhaps no name is more synonymous with the rise of grass-roots faith-based filmmaking than Alex Kendrick who, with his brother Stephen, built Sherwood Pictures, the movie-making ministry of Albany, Georgia-based Sherwood Baptist Church. Through four progressively complex and successful films (Flywheel, Facing…
Minister/movie producer Brent Martz on the amazing story behind the anti-human trafficking drama “Not Today”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The road to India. In my previous post, I reviewed Not Today, a captivating film dramatizing the plight of India’s Dalit underclass and the ongoing tragedy of human trafficking in India and around the world. I recently spoke with producer Brent Martz, aka the…
HeavenUp founder Chris Burkhart talks about launching his Christian alternative to Facebook
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The Un-Facebook? What 7 Up (aka the Un-cola) is to Coke, HeavenUp is to Facebook. That is an alternative with a unique flavor all its own. Whereas Facebook is aimed at the amorphous masses and quite literally seeks to be all things to all…
Compelling “October Baby” arrives in movie theaters: The Erwin Brothers talk about bringing the story of a child who survived an abortion to the mainstream movie audiences
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. October Baby arrives in theaters today. The highly-anticipated film about a teen abortion survivor (Rachel Hendrix) who sets out on an emotional journey to find her birth mother is the passion project of the Jon and Andrew Erwin who produced it together. Andrew and…
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