Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Too much sharing? I was recently sent a screener for two episodes the Oxygen reality series I’m Having Their Baby which airs weekly at 10 PM ET.  The basic premise of the show, which is in its second season, is that cameras follow as…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Singing for God! The Cantinas Ranch Foundation’s 2nd Annual Cantinas Music Festival, to be held on Saturday, August 24, 2013, will feature three-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum selling artist Michael W. Smith and Dove Award-winner Francesca Battistelli. With RayLynn Records as a sponsor, the Cantinas…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A Courageous change of pace. Following up on my conversations with Patricia Heaton, Kevin Downes and Robert Amaya, I continue now with additional notes from the Birmingham, Alabama set of the upcoming Erwin Brothers family comedy Moms’ Night Out, here’s Alex Kendrick, known of…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Friends off the screen. As actors, Kevin Downes and Robert Amaya scored in 2011 with the surprise success the faith-based police/family drama Courageous.  Recently the good friends reunited onscreen for the upcoming Erwin Brothers comedy Moms’ Night Out, a comedy about the perils of parenthood. Though…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Behind every great pop icon there’s a mother. In Justin Bieber‘s case, her name Pattie Mallette. And with over 2.4 million Twitter followers and 290,000 likes on Facebook, it’s clear she’s already developed a following of her own — particularly after her autobiography Nowhere…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Creepy stuff! I happened to catch screenwriters Chad and Carey Hayes talking about how The Conjuring, their new horror movie based on a said-to-true saga of a family terrorized by a demonic presence in their farmhouse, at the recent Variety Family Entertainment & Faith-Based…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Not the Kardashians. The family reality family series Bulloch Family Ranch debuts on tonight at 10:00 PM ET on UP TV. Like the Kardashians on E!, the Bullochs have thrown their open to TV cameras to chronicle their supposedly everyday lives. I must say I…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Everybody Loves Patricia. With Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, Patricia Heaton has officially joined the lofty ranks of TV stars who have actually managed to follow up one hit prime-time series with another. It’s a relatively short list that included the likes of Mary…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Love is Enough. UP TV is expanding its slate of slate of original programming next week when the reality family series Bulloch Family Ranch debuts on Wednesday (July 17) at 10:00 PM ET.  The show, which will follow new episodes of the scripted family…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. AFFIRMation. Rich Peluso has been promoted to Senior Vice President of AFFIRM Films, a label of Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he will continue to oversee the development, production, acquisition and marketing of faith-based and inspirational films. These films span a wide range of genres…

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