Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/25/23 Real reality. Premiering nationwide in theaters this Thursday (9/28), The Blind reveals the powerful true love and redemption story of Phil and Kay Robertson before they shot to fame on the reality TV phenomenon The Duck Dynasty. Will and Korie Robertson, the couple’s…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/22/23 October is Mother Teresa Month. Perhaps not officially but with the biopic Mother Teresa & Me due in theaters as a one-night Fathom Event on Thursday, October 5th and the fact that, through a deal with the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, the above one-hour…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/20/23 The birds and the bees and absolutely anything else you can possibly think of. Having previously explained Democracy and Wokeness, the decidedly anti-Woke keepers of the satirical website The Babylon Bee are out with their third Guide book. Helpfully called The Babylon Bee…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/18/23 Silence is compliance. So suggests Atlanta-based Worship with Wonders Church Pastor Myles Rutherford. In his new book Raise Your Voice: An Urgent Call to Speak Out in a Collapsing Culture, due out tomorrow, he sounds the alarm over silence and complacency in the…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/15/23 Blue sky TV rises. For the tenth consecutive month Great American Family is television’s fastest-growing network, this after growing its total day audience by 169% in August. The channel, a subsidiary of Great American Media (which is partly owned by Sony) is run…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/13/23 An impenetrable mystery. That’s how biographer Ellen Vaughn says the late Christian philosopher Elisabeth Elliot viewed the interplay between God and human choice. Speaking with me about her just released book Being Elisabeth Elliot for an interview currently up on The Acton Institute…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/11/23 In search of answers. I first spoke with Ray McGinnis, the Canadian religious scholar, Psalm expert and unlikely 9/11 investigator almost exactly two years ago about his then-new book Unanswered Questions: What the September 11th Families Asked and What the 9/11 Commission Ignored.…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/08/23 The sleeper summer blockbuster Sound of Freedom reaches a new milestone. After shocking industry experts with its stellar domestic success, the Angel Studios film that dramatically tackles the issue international child sex trafficking has claimed the #1 spot in 18 countries throughout Latin…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/06/23 Jeff Allen arrives. In his new memoir Are We There Yet? – My Journey from a Messed Up to a Meaningful Life the 67-year-old veteran comedian somehow finds the funny in Ecclesiastes, the biblical book he says God used to rescue him from…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/01/23 Since I went off the grid off the grid in August: My wife and I saw Barbie. We originally intended to see Oppenheimer but the play times didn’t work out for us. While I still think those Barbenheimer memes were beyond crass, Barbie…

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