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My favorite Valentine’s Day film: “Joe the Volcano”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. One of the most under-rated movies ever. No doubt about it. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan displayed great screen chemistry. But, for my money, their best romantic pairing wasn’t in their hits Sleepless in Seattle or You’ve Got Mail but in film that…
State of the Union: Sequester this! + Why I’d like to see Dr. Benjamin Carson run for president in 2016
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. An alternative the budget sequester. They say politics is downstream of culture. So, let’s take a quick journey downstream. Here’s my suggested alternative to those proposed across-the-board cuts that were designed to be so devastatingly painful to both the military and domestic programs that…
Death by demographics: A new novel by Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner suggests a dark future when longer life spans meet lower birth rates
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Negative numbers. In the newly-released Fatherless, prolific Christian authors Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner not only collaborate — while each taking their first stab at a novel.(Kurt Bruner, it should be noted has some background in fiction, particularly in radio drama as an…
A very busy Kevin Sorbo tackles faith-based “Abel’s Field”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Ready, willing and Abel. With eight movies currently in the production pipeline and a western film slated to debut next month on The Hallmark Channel, Kevin Sorbo is easily one of busiest actors in Hollywood. Yet, after reading the script for Abel’s Field, the…
Producer Tore Knos talks about the road from horror flicks to the faith-based “Abel’s Field”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. From Vampires: Out for Blood to Abel’s Field. So, it turns out Anne Rice isn’t the only one who can make the transition from spinning vampire tales to Christian-themed material. Tore Knos, the producer of Abel’s Field, has made the journey as well. The result…
“Abel’s Field” ably applies biblical themes of forgiveness and redemption to tell a compelling and humane coming-of-age story
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. “Sometime the hero is on the sideline.” So reads the tag line for Abel’s Field, the new faith-themed from Covenant Road Entertainment and Sony Pictures now available on DVD via Walmart and other outlets. There are actually two heroes at the center of the film…
Times Square Church in NYC packs ’em in with live production of “The Cross and the Switchblade”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The power of the message. If I needed any further of evidence that there’s a huge audience for faith-based drama, I didn’t have to look any further than the Times Square Church at 1657 Broadway (at 51st Street) last Friday night. I was invited…
Airbrushing the news: Plight of American Christian pastor in Iran virtually ignored by media
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Why is this not a huge story? From CBN: Pastor Saeed Abidini, an American imprisoned in Iran for his faith, was sentenced Sunday to eight years in prison. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, Pastor Saeed was verbally sentenced by Iran’s notorious “hanging…
Network pilot season is here! Here’s some of what you may be seeing on ABC next fall
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Would you watch this stuff? The broadcast network chieftains are at it again — ordering up pilots and trying to figure out which ones will fly. Here’s the list of what ABC has on its plate so far — along with my thoughts on whether…
Theologian Christopher West on his new book, the difference between true human desire and superficial lust, the positive power of art and a spiritual lesson from “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. What People Want. Christopher West is a well-regarded teacher, writer and theologian who is, perhaps, best known for making the dense scholarship of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body accessible to a wide audience. He’s also the founder of The Cor Project,…
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