NBC-TV’s Sunday night launch of the new series ‘A.D. The Bible Continues’ is “just the latest in a long line of movie and television productions about Jesus Christ going back 118 years,” says Christian media scholar Dr. Ted Baehr, founder and publisher of Movieguide®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment.
Possible contenders for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination are speaking out in support of Indiana’s new ‘religious freedom’ law, addressing controversy over the legislation with conservative views of faith and liberty.
As the highly-anticipated movie, “David and Goliath” hits theaters in 25 cities this weekend, the director promises a different experience than “Noah” and “Exodus.”
Noah is told by God to build an Ark in order to save his family from a global flood. Not a difficult story to decipher. Why is Hollywood unable to? Many of today’s films have supernatural/disaster themes (Jupiter Ascending, The Avengers: Age of Ultron – May 2015), why can’t Hollywood employ the same rationale to the Bible? Are movie studio executives and television networks unable to re-create Noah’s story (unlikely), do they have a desire to reinterpret Genesis or a personal hostility towards God and the Bible? You be the judge…
On Monday, March 23rd, a Ventura County Superior Court judge affirmed the rights of a Christian school in Thousand Oaks, California, to ask that its employees provide a reference from a pastor.
Faith Driven Consumer™—the consumer advocacy organization representing 41 million Christian consumers who spend $2 trillion annually, has earned wide recognition for rating the faith compatibility of Hollywood films, measuring how they will resonate with faith-driven audiences, and predicting box office performance. The group’s Faith-Friendly Film Review system serves as a key resource for consumers to evaluate entertainment choices.
