Faith-Based
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‘Elm Trees’ Novel Embraces Christmas Wonder
I still remember the joy and anticipation leading up to Christmas when I was young. Think about being unable to…
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Faith-Based Rom-Com Counters Hollywood’s Marriage Misery
I always figured I would get married. The first push in that direction was growing up in a good family…
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Faith-Based ‘Walking with Herb’ Lands in a Spiritual Sand Trap
Where has George Lopez been hiding all these years? Not Lopez the stand-up comic. We’ve watched him for decades on…
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‘Fatima’ Captures Pain, Power of Staying True to One’s Faith
“Fatima” serves as a course corrective for the faith-based film genre. While some Christian movies deliver modest production values, “Fatima”…
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‘Waves’ Director: Collaboration, Faith Fueled Family Drama
Trey Edward Shults’ “Waves” looks at a perfect family in a near-perfect free fall. This upper middle-class clan has it…
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How CBS’s ‘Evil’ Rights a Spiritual TV Wrong
Robert King is tired of the TV formula when it comes to priests in procedural dramas. They’re eventually revealed to…
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Why Are Studios Still Scared of Christianity?
The new film “Tolkien” does more than examine the life of the mind behind “Lord of the Rings.” The biopic…
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‘Breakthrough’ Marks New Era in Faith-Based Films
Some Christian films hit theaters with a cloying caveat. “it’s good … for a faith-based movie.” That halting praise isn’t…
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Mom: ‘Ashamed’ Empowers Audience to Resist Secular Culture
Beth Nimmo insisted any movie portraying her daughter, who died in the Columbine High School massacre, avoid one thing above…
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‘New Life’ Star: Why Faith Films Still Shock Hollywood
Erin Bethea’s 2008 film “Fireproof” made 67 times its very modest budget. The starlet says some in Hollywood still don’t…
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