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Beautiful music: How iPods are helping to stimulate the memories of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Kindness, in the key of “i”: If you have an iPod you no longer use or need, you might want to consider giving it to the Broadway Alzheimer’s iPod Drive. The donated devices will go to facilities that care for those suffering from memory…
A new Hays Code? Following the “Batman” shootings, a producer says it’s time for Hollywood reconsider self censorship
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Is Dark Knight tragedy a cultural turning point? The Aurora massacre has focused the spotlight on Hollywood’s role in fostering real-life violence. Even industry icons like Peter Bogdanovich and Harvey Weinstein are now seriously addressing the issue . More on them below, but first……
“Raising Izzie” raises strong ratings for GMC TV (which is on a ratings roll)
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Uplifting ratings. GMC TV, which promotes itself as the home of “Uplifting Entertainment,” is catching an updraft in the ratings. The GMC World Premiere Movie presentation of Raising Izzie set a host of new audience milestones last Sunday. The film was exceptionally strong in…
Denver’s Catholic Archdiocese offers help to victims of “Dark Night” shootings
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Church offers psychological and spiritual support for Aurora shooting victims . The Regina Caeli Counseling Services of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Denver is offering counseling services to those affected by last week’s tragic shootings during an overnight showing of the…
Light rises from “Batman” tragedy as a “miracle” birth defect saves the life of a shooting victim
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Some can call it a bizarre coincidence. Believers (of which I am one) are apt to view Petra Anderson’s story as something of a miracle. Call it what you will but the reality of the violent act’s aftermath persists. Here’s one way you can…
MPI to bring popular “Love Finds You book series to television
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. On a Mission of Love. Mission Pictures International President Chevonne O’Shaughnessy tells me that MPI has inked a deal with Guideposts to develop and produce a set of seven TV movies based on the popular Love Finds You book series. The Love Finds You…
Jon Stewart hits the nail on the head in Viacom-DirecTV dispute.
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Jon Stewart take on Viacom’s spitting match with DirecTV (via The Wrap): “Viacom and DirecTV, what are you doing here? You got ad campaigns blaming each other for taking the shows away, telling people to “rise up and demand it” like some kind…
The Life, near-death and life of Peter Panagore (Part 2)
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of Faith, media and culture. In this space yesterday, Reverend Peter Panagore talked about a 1980 ice-climbing snafu that resulted an apparent near-death experience that forever altered his outlook on life. Here, he talks about the years that followed, including his current tenure as pastor of the First Radio…
The Life, near-death and life of Peter Panagore (Part 1)
By
John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of Faith, media and culture. Peter Panagore currently serves as the fifth pastor of the First Radio Parish Church of America which was established in 1926 to utilize the then relatively-new broadcast medium to bring the Gospel to the people. At first that task was accomplished through a literal…
“For Greater Glory” and “The Way” garner ALMA nominations
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. For Greater Glory and The Way score ALMA nominations. The National Council of La Raza has announced this year’s American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award nominees and two faith film are prominently represented. For Greater Glory, the historical action epic Mexico’s Cristero War for…
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