‘The Chosen’ Teams with Amazon for Season 5, Last Supper
If the significance of a week can be described as “shock and awe,” imagine the impact of Holy Week. That is the time in Jesus and the disciples’ lives into which “The Chosen” will take its growing audience for season 5. Or, as the show’s official synopsis teases, “The most pivotal week in human history.” …
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The Big, Unsettling Picture Behind Shen Yun
Shen Yun is a dance and music show that plays at some of the country’s most extravagant theater venues. It has toured the U.S. since at least 2011, and just released its national tour schedule for 2025. So frequently do Americans hear about Shen Yun through its mass promotional mailings, billboards or social media ads …
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Rodgers’ ‘Enigma’ Shows NFL’s Most Complicated Star
Almost all of us have an athlete or athletes in our lives. Certainly we know people who are politically active. A lot of us aren’t too far from someone who may have a “healing” interest in psychoactive plants. But do you know an apex-level athlete who was asked to run for vice president and openly …
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Kamala Harris and Jussie Smollett – DEI in Motion?
This is your brain on drugs. These are two brains on identity politics run wild. A 2019 Kamala Harris Tweet about actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged assault speaks of their mutual enablement as users. .@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery. This was an attempted …
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How a Hymns Playlist Can Transform Your Life
Hymns may not regularly crack the top-40 charts, but building, updating and listening to a hymns playlist can transform more aspects of your life than might seem possible. While hymn recordings often go unheralded in “music news,” the genre offers remarkable talent and renewing effects. Hymns and devotionals are expressions of music in which even …
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Subversive Film Festival Gears Up for 2025
A film festival known for bucking indie conventions is opening its doors to 2025 entries. Filmmakers can now submit titles for the 2025 Santa Monica Film Festival. The event, which just wrapped its 18th year, includes categories like feature film, short film, documentary, documentary short subject and episodic pilot. This year’s festival, held in February, …
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How ‘The Chosen’ and ‘Truman Show’ Oddly Overlap
Comparing “The Chosen” to “The Truman Show” may seem ungainly at first. “The Chosen” is an actual series about Jesus and the apostles’ lives that has a real audience. “The Truman Show” is a 1998 movie about a fictional show based on one man’s outrageous but disguised mistreatment and awakening. The parallels between the two …
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