Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Davy Jones is dead. From The Wrap/AP:  Davy Jones, a former actor turned singer who helped propel the TV rock band The Monkees to the top of the pop charts and into rock `n’ roll history, died Wednesday in Florida. He was…

Here’s today’s Academy Awards dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. The Dictator and The Nun. Talk about a study in contrasts. Delores Hart (aka Mother Delores), the former Elvis Presley  co-star who gave up Hollywood for the convent (and the subject of the nominated documentary short God is the Bigger Elvis)…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Nominees for 2012 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards  announced. The 43rd annual even will be held at the Fox Theatre  in Atlanta on April 19, 2012. Least year’s event, which was hosted by The View’s Sherri Shepherd and aired on the Gospel…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s “Way” with words. During his historic address to Pope Benedict over the weekend, New York’s newly-elevated spiritual leader offered something of a movie review: “We as believers, must have at heart even those people who consider themselves agnostics or…

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