Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Valuing fathers. This Father’s Day, ASPiRE, the positive TV network founded by NBA legend Magic Johnson, will feature special programming celebrating the importance of dads. The centerpiece of Sunday’s special line-up will be the world television premiere of the critically-acclaimed, conversation-starting documentary From Fatherless…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Sing and a prayer hit. The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles continue their hold on Billboard magazine’s Classical Traditional Music Chart. For the fourth straight week Angels and Saints at Ephesus collection of sacred music sits at #1 on the list. The Missouri-based…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Team Touhy takes on television. Family Addition with Leigh Anne Touhy, premieres tonight (Friday, June 7 @ 9:00 PM ET), is the first new original to  premiere on UP since the Uplifting Entertainment network formerly known as GMC TV  changed its name last Saturday.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Movin’ on UP.  This past weekend (June 1) GMC TV officially began operating under its new moniker. The new name is simply UP, as in Uplifting Programming. Founded in 2004 as The Gospel Music Channel by Charley Humbard, the entrepreneurial son of the groundbreaking…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Uplifting Entertainment UPdate. As of midnight this morning (June 1) GMC TV — which began its life in 2004 as a cable channel focused on gospel music and has grown into a full-scale entertainment network — underwent a name change. UP is  intended to…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Story ARC. Space Warriors, the second original installment of the new weekly Walden Family Theater franchise, premieres tonight (May 31) at 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel. The production, which stars Mira Sorvino, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas, Danny Glover  and Thomas Horn (Extremely Loud and…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Space Warriors to the rescue! The film, the second original installment of the new weekly Walden Family Theater  franchise debuts this Friday (May 31) at 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel. Space Warriors tells the story of six highly-skilled teenagers hand-picked to be part…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. This just in: The season finale of GSN’s hit series The American Bible Challenge has revealed its winner.  Team Wagner Warriors are the Season 2 champions. After winning two rounds of the intense competition, Team Wagner Warriors of Owasso and Tulsa, OK, went on…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Drawing on faith. With a goal of becoming the world’s largest publisher of Christian-themed graphic novels,  Kingstone Comics will debut Eternity, the first graphic novel by New York Times best-selling author Randy Alcorn, in June. Kingstone CEO Art Ayris sees graphic novels as the next…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Here are the details: Variety’s second-annual Faith and Family Entertainment Summit, in association with Rogers & Cowan,  will be held June 21st at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Events will include a keynote conversation with Mark Burnett and Roma Downey in which they’ll…

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