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Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with “Hurricane”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Grammy-nominated, five-time Dove Award-winning Female Artist of the Year Natalie Grant makes her Grand Ole Opry debut tonight (10/22) as Women Rock For The Cure in the fight against breast cancer. The fifth annual Opry Goes Pink show will feature Grant alongside award winning…
44th Annual GMA Dove Awards, hosted by Amy Grant & Kirk Franklin, airs tonight on UP TV
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Good music. Tonight (10/21) at 8 PM ET, UP TV presents the 44th annual Dove Awards hosted by Amy Grant and Kirk Franklin. The Gospel Music Association event, broadcast live from Nashville’s Lipscomb University, will celebrate the year’s best in inspirational Gospel and Christian music.…
Despite minor flaws, UP TV’s “Saving Westbrook High” movie would make a good TV series
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Saving Westbrook High premieres tonight (10/20) at 7:00 PM ET in UP TV. Synopsis (from the UP TV website): Manny Cortez is uprooting his family – wife Teresa and daughters Selena, 14 and Gabriella, 12 – so that they can go to Westbrook High…
Stephen Baldwin talks about his role in the gritty faith-based “I’m in Love with a Church Girl” and why he’s hot again in Hollywood
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Baldwin’s back! When I last spoke with Stephen Baldwin, he was talking passionately about directing singer/songwriter Cory Lamb‘s music video Break the Cycle, which he described as a sort of anthem to all those who are, in one way another, moving from darkness into…
Utter “Linsanity”! Producer of Jeremy Lin doc talks about bringing the Christian hoop star’s story to the screen
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. He shoots! He scores! After a strong limited release opening, Linsanity, the documentary about openly Christian basketball star Jeremy Lin, is expanding into more theaters this weekend. I talked with producer Christopher Chen about how the film came about and what it’s like to…
Child lit author Maryann MacDonald talks about writing “The Christmas Cat” and “Odette’s Secrets”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The storyteller. Maryanne MacDonald has a gift for writing children’s stories that appeal to adults as well. Her latest work, The Christmas Cat (which imagines a relationship between the Child Jesus and a cat), is available today (10/17). She says it, as well as…
Limited release = “Unlimited” success in Kansas City
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Defying Gravity. Congratulations to Harold Finch on this past weekend’s success of Unlimited, the faith-themed sci-fi action film he produced with Chad Gundersen and Andy Huddleston. The film had a big opening in Kansas City where audiences made it the third highest-grossing movie nationwide…
Review: Hallmark Channel’s “Signed, Sealed” delivers witty, heartfelt tale of eccentric, endearing Post Office heroes
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Nothing quite compares to a well-written letter. Or script for that matter. And Martha Williamson (Touched by an Angel) certainly has written a charmer with Saturday night’s Signed, Sealed Delivered, her Hallmark Channel backdoor pilot about a pleasantly quirky team of postal investigators assigned…
With her new series about to be “Delivered”, Martha Williamson reflects on how TV has changed since “Touched by an Angel”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Martha Williamson still has the touch. After reportedly testing through the roof, Signed, Sealed, Delivered has been given a full 10-episode series order by Hallmark Channel even before its movie-length pilot airs this Saturday night (10/12) at 9:00 PM ET. The film — and…
Grammy winner uses Twitter to help orphans + Catholic filmmaker’s movie gets Kickstarted
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 10/10/10. 10,000 sponsors to help 10,000 orphans over the next 10 years. That’s the goal of Grammy-winner Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth as they launch a Twitter campaign this Thursday (10/10) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the nonprofit orphan care…
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