Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The world premiere of A Gift of Miracles airs tonight (2/15) @ 9:00 PM (ET) on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.The uplifting film stars Rachel Boston (Lifetime’s Witches of East End), Jesse Moss (Hallmark’s Channel’s Cedar Cove) and acting legend Rita Moreno.  My mini-review of…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkSXRsUrnDM#t=112 Roadside Attractions and Godspeed Pictures have announced May 15, 2015 as the theatrical release of Where Hope Grows.  The film is a winner of the 2014 Heartland Film Festival Audience Choice Award and its Facebook page has garnered over 200,000 likes. Roadside Attractions…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Newsboys deliver A.D. promo for NBC. The network has just released this music video to promote A.D. (now officially titled A.D. The Bible Continues), Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s follow-up to their hit miniseries The Bible. The video features Grammy-nominated Christian rock artists Newsboys performing…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Christian Mingle airs on UP TV on Sunday (2/8) @ 7:00 PM ET. Synopsis: Despite her own lukewarm Christian faith, Gwyneth Hayden (Lacey Chabert), a talented ad executive searching for “Mr. Right”, signs up with the dating site ChristianMingle.com. The film also stars Jonathan…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Megachurch Murder airs on Lifetime on Saturday (2/7) @ 8:00 PM ET. Synopsis: Said to be inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Megachurch Murder tells the story of turmoil in a  modern African American church that is set in motion when Hannah Spears (Shanica Knowles), the…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Season 2 of Laff Mobb’s We Got Next premieres tonight 2/4 @ 10:00 PM (ET) on ASPiRE. Billed at an original weekly “clean stand-up” comedy/reality series, Laff Mobb’s We Got Next features two hot young African-American comedians being interviewed by executive producer Bob Sumner…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Life matters. Jason Scott Jones was the emcee of a Students for Live of America event in association with the recent March for Life in Washington D.C.* Though the event was largely ignored by the mainstream media, it reportedly drew about 200,000 in support…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Exodus success. Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus, the one-night documentary theater event I told you about last week played to packed houses across the country Monday night — leading Fathom Events to schedule an encore showing Thursday night (1/29) at 7:00 PM local time.…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Larger than life. Manny Pacquiao may be just over 5’6″ inches tall but anyone familiar the champion fighter (the first and only boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions) and his life story realizes that his physical size belies his actual…

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