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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…
Screenwriter Dan Gordon on the unfortunate relevancy of Holocaust drama “Irena’s Vow” + Catherine Herridge calls out CBS
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/12/24 Profile in courage. The storytelling career of Dan Gordon took off forty years ago when Michael Landon chose him to be executive story editor of his new TV show Highway to Heaven. The show would go on to become a huge hit for…
75th annual Christopher Awards celebrates media that celebrates the best of us
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/10/24 Lifting up storytellers who uplift the human spirit through film, television and books. For its milestone 75th awards presentation the Catholic nonprofit founded in 1945 by Maryknoll Father James Keller to honor the Judeo-Christian tradition of service to God and humanity – and…
Mel Harris talks about playing a dying horror novelist on Season 2 finale of Great American Media’s hospice-set drama “Going Home”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/08/24 Mel Harris: From thirtysomething to Going Home. The late eighties and early nineties was something of a golden age for heartfelt character-driven ensemble dramas on broadcast network television. Two exemplifiers of the form were thirtysomething (1987-91) on ABC and Northern Exposure (1990-95) on…
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury on her unexpectedly timely film adaptation of “Someone Like You” and working with Roma Downey to bring “The Baxters” to TV
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 04/02/24 The Queen of All Media. With more than 25 million copies of her award-winning books in print and a recent TV miniseries, Karen Kingsbury has already established herself as one of America’s great storytellers. Now, with with a TV show based on her…
Roma Downey on bringing “The Baxters” to TV + Ashley Bratcher on “Finding Faith” + Martin Scorsese comes to Fox Nation + Country star Paige King Johnson on Easter gratitude + “The Chosen” lights up Rio
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/29/24 Hope Opera. That’s the term producer Roma Downey uses to describe The Baxters. Based on the bestselling series of novels by Karen Kingsbury, the family drama just debuted on Amazon Prime Video. Here she talks about why she fought for so long to…
Christian author Anthony DeStefano takes on “The Story of the First Easter Bunny” + Netflix takes on “The Story of Moses”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 03/27/24 Keeping Christ in Easter. Some Christians view the Easter Bunny the same way they do Santa Clause – as a secular commercialized distraction from sacred events pivotal to the faith. With The Story of the First Easter Bunny, noted Christian author Anthony DeStefano,…
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