Faith-Based
Some recoil at the ‘faith-based’ label. Others embrace it. Either way, modern storytellers are leaning into their spiritual side to tell stories that are often ignored by Hollywood movie studios. Now, with these shows and films making a mark, the bigger companies are starting to tell their own faith-based yarns.
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How One Christian TV Watcher Tripped Up ChatGPT
For several years, I have had an increasingly uncomfortable feeling about Western television: the kind of stories I most wanted…
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Faith-Friendly ‘Pendragon Cycle’ Shocks Hollywood
“Conservative” art remains in shockingly short supply. For every project like “What Is a Woman?” or “Police State,” there are…
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Why ‘Midwinter Break’ Is Unlike Most Faith-Based Films
Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds are so convincing as a married couple in “Midwinter Break” that you’ll swear they left…
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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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