Rebecca St. James Made "Sarah's Choice" Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | | Rebecca St. James is a musician, songwriter, author, editor, and now actress. She started writing in the second year of her ministry, and in response to advice from Cal Thomas, diversified her career, which she finds helpful to staying fresh creatively. This year, she edited the book Loved and had her first lead role in a new film from PureFlix called Sarah's Choice. [...Read More] |  | |
Talking with the Groovaloo's Founder Bradley Rapier Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | | The Groovaloos have been together about 10 years. Winners of MTV's first Superstars of Dance, they're as much as family as they are a dance crew. They performed early one spring morning at the Biola Media Conference on the CBS Studio lot, and had the early-morning crowd on their feet with their amazing dance moves. Later that day, I caught their founder and leader Bradley Rapier on the street and we talked about dance, faith, and the amazing group of people known as the Groovaloos. [...Read More] |  | |
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Tim Hawkins on Rock and Roll Comedy Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | | As part of my ongoing education in comedy, I recently spoke with Tim Hawkins of Crown Comedy. A member of the board of directors of the Christian Comedy Association, his mixture of observational comedy and musical spoofs is captured on several DVDs including Full Range of Motion and the most recent I'm No Rockstar. Under his tutelage, I learned more about the science of comedy. [...Read More] |  | |
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Nazareth Is Driven to do Comedy Posted: Thursday, October 29, 2009 | | Nazareth Rizkallah (pronounced Smith), a comedian with Crown Comedy is a Middle Eastern American comedian who was born in the Holy Land and raised in Kuwait. He met his wife in Gaza while on family business for his father and asked her to marry him that day. They were engaged five days later. Married in a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza, they also had a second American ceremony in the United States in his home church. Nazareth now resides in Corona, California, where he's lived for the last 6 years. One of my favorite clips is on YouTube, where he is featured on a Christmas show with comedian Tim Conway, who was featured in Thou Shalt Laugh the Deuce. One afternoon we talked about Nazareth's encounter with Conway and what it's like to be a Middle Eastern American comedian in the United States right now, then I got to meet Nazareth in person at a dinner in Los Angeles the same night. It just doesn't get any better. [...Read More] |  | |
Dr. John Hagee to Promote "In the Blink of an Eye" Posted: Thursday, October 29, 2009 | | Source - Press release Pastor John Hagee, one of America's most recognizable evangelists and pastor of the 19,000 member San Antonio-based Cornerstone Church, is offering nationwide through his television ministry an eye-opening and prophetic action film that chronicles the last week leading up to the rapture. End-times thriller In the Blink of an Eye will release on November 17. [...Read More] |  | |
Comedy Web Series Combats Monday Morning Blues Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | | Source: Press release Awaken Pictures, Inc., an emerging movie, television, and documentary production company based in Eastern North Carolina is streaming a new comedy web series called The Expert on the Internet every Monday for 5 weeks. [...Read More] |  | |