Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Return to the Hiding Place opens this weekend. Just in time for the Memorial Day holiday, Return to the Hiding Place is a suspense-filled action-packed World War II drama about a ragtag band of Dutch teenagers who risk their lives to thwart the Nazis…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Here’s the story…For those of us who watched The Brady Bunch growing up and wondered whether bringing two families together after one had recently lost its mother and the other its father really could really be that void of any real emotion, the answer…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Out of the shadows. With the Boko Haram situation in Nigeria in the headlines, the recently released film Honor Diaries seems particularly well timed to encourage discussion about the treatment of women under the harsh application of espoused by radical Islamists. The documentary features…

Honoring the best in us. I attended the 65th annual Christopher Awards ceremony last Thursday recognizing those who use the power of communication to uphold the Catholic organizations motto (and Chinese proverb) that “It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness” Father David T. Link [right] receives  of the James Keller Award…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. “It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” That’s the motto of The Christophers, a Catholic organization founded in 1945 by a Maryknoll priest named Fr. James Keller. Keller believed that the power to positively shape the future lies within individual…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The story behind Ragamuffin. This gem of a movie (from The Color Green Films), based on the life and legacy of best-selling Christian music singer/songwriter Rich Mullins (Awesome God)who tragically died in a 1997 car crash, was recently released on DVD and is available…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Goal met! Through the persuasive power of truth, an important story will be told. Despite Hollywood’s obvious fascination with serial killers, the case of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia late-term abortionist who in May of 2013 was convicted of three (out of eight) murder charges…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Synopsis: Three moms head out for a night on the town while the guys take care of the kids. Hilarity ensues. Cast: Sarah Drew, Sean Astin, Patricia Heaton, Trace Adkins, David Hunt, Andrea Logan White, Harry Shum Jr., Abbie Cobb, Robert Amaya, Kevin Downes,…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. My talk show. As I previously mentioned, I spent last week hanging out in Hollywood where I attended the red carpet premiere of Moms’ Night Out, the new Erwin Brothers’ faith and family-friendly comedy about the challenges and importance of motherhood that is perfectly…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Married to another Ray. In the Erwin Brothers’ new family comedy Moms’ Night Out, opening this Friday (5/9), Patricia Heaton brings the comic skills she’s honed on long-running sitcoms to the movies. She plays Sondra, the wife of Pastor Ray who, BTW, is not…

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