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February 26, 2013
The Briefing 02-26-13
Story 1 – Worldview Matters – political persuasion can predict movie habits
Politics Counts: The Split Screen on Oscar Movies, Wall Street Journal (Dante Chinni)
Story 2 – Entertainment industry calling for higher taxes while receiving millions in tax breaks
The Hollywood Tax Story They Won’t Tell at the Oscars, Wall Street Journal (Glenn Harlan Reynolds)
Story 3 -…
February 25, 2013
The Briefing 02-25-13
Story 1 – The Oscars and the inescapable influence of Hollywood
Longest Oscars In Hollywood History? Yawnfest Instead Of Usual Snorefest? Deadline.com (Nikki Finke)
Film is finished – this could be its last Oscars, The Independent (Jonathan Owen)
Story 2 – The Sequester: synthetic hysteria over manufactured crisis
The manufactured crisis of sequester, Washington Post (George F. Will)
Story 3…
June 11, 2009
Defining and Defending The Culture of Life
How can the pro-life camp cultivate a culture of life? Will there be a day in America when the thought of having an abortion is not even a moral option? In a time when the majority of Americans are against abortion, will the pro-life movement continue to strengthen? Listen as Dr. Robert George, professor at…
July 22, 2008
Listening to the Culture at the Cineplex
Do the movies we watch tell us anything about our cultural values and worldview? On today’s program, guest host Russell Moore not only reveals his hatred for robots, but he also explores the questions raised by recent releases such as The Dark Knight and Wall-E. He’s joined by theologian and author Timothy Paul Jones and…
December 19, 2007
Ask Anything Wednesday
December 5, 2007
Ask Anything Wednesday
November 13, 2007
From the Bible to “Intimacy Kits” — Goodbye to the Gideons?
No more Gideons Bibles in hotel rooms? That is the point of an article published in the online edition of Newsweek. Reporter Roya Wolverson explains that the trend in upscale hotels is to include no Bible among the room furnishings. On today’s program, Dr. Mohler says this development is another reminder that we are living…
June 29, 2007
Hollywood’s Newfound Love Affair With Evangelicals
Ever since The Passion of the Christ Hollywood marketers have been trying to figure out how to reduplicate that level of box office success among American evangelicals. The recent release of Evan Almighty highlights this growing trend among studios and marketing agencies. But it also raises some serious questions. On today’s program, Dr. Moore is…
April 17, 2007
Questions from Virginia Tech: Where Was God?
March 7, 2007
Ask Anything Wednesday
February 26, 2007
Can Anything Good Come Out Of Hollywood?
Last night’s 79th Academy Awards provide us with an opportunity to explore what our movies say about us as a culture and what would be a thoughtful Christian approach to the medium of film. To help us sort these questions we’re joined today by Jeffrey Overstreet, film critic at ChristianityToday.com and author of Through a…
