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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…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Expanding horizons. Perhaps no name is more synonymous with the rise of grass-roots faith-based filmmaking than Alex Kendrick who, with his brother Stephen, built Sherwood Pictures, the movie-making ministry of Albany, Georgia-based Sherwood Baptist Church. Through four progressively complex and successful films (Flywheel, Facing…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Catholic evangelization hits a high note. In November of 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released its strategic plan for 2013-2016 titled “The New Evangelization/Journey with Christ: Faith-Worship-Witness.” In it, the bishops urged US Catholics to encounter Christ more fully through greater participation…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. More data from Movieguide proving the box office power of positive entertainment. 1. In 2012 six Movieguide Award-winning films cracked the box office top ten. They included The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Madagascar…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 12 reasons 2012 was a very good year for faith-based and family films. 1. Captain America embraced the One True God and rejected false gods in The Avengers. 2. Bruce Wayne finally realized that family mattered in The Dark Knight Rises. 3. Peter Parker…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A Common Purpose. For the second consecutive year, Variety (in coordination with the P.R. firm Rogers & Cowan) held a day-long gathering of distributors, producers, writers, directors, actors and others who are the faces behind the current boom in uplifting entertainment — which, BTW,…
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