Mid-Missouri Christian TV station accepting submissions for its upcoming film festival

KNLJ is accepting submissions for its film festival on April 17, 2010. The festival will be located at their studio in Jefferson City, Mo., located at 331 W. Dunklin St. Submissions must be received by April 9, 2010. They must be: 7 minutes or less in length Answer the question, “If you could have dinner [...]

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Funny Church Signs

CNN.com’s iReport page is currently collecting photos of funny/interesting church signs. I found the current collection quite entertaining.

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Beliefnet Film Awards Announced

Winners of the fifth annual Beliefnet Film Awards were announced on Tuesday, March 2. There are two awards for each category, people’s choice and judge’s award. The winners are: Best Spiritual Film: “The Road” – Judge’s Award “The Blind Side” – People’s Choice Award Best Inspirational Film: “Precious” and “Up” (tie) – Judge’s Award “Precious” [...]

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Belief in Brief: The origins of St. Valentine’s Day

Roman Catholic Origins: According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there are three different martyrs named Valentine. Two were in the clergy in Italy during the second half of the third century. The third lived in Africa. However, not much is known about him. There are two prominent legends about St. Valentine: During the reign of Emperor [...]

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Student Play, “Signs from God,” at the Newman Center this week

“Signs from God,” a play written, produced and performed by students will be at the Newman Center in Columbia this week. The story line is about a group of friends becoming aware of their vocations. All 12 students in the play are from the University of Missouri. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. from [...]

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Faith based organization sponsors ad during the Super Bowl

What are your thoughts? The Christian group Focus on the Family has sponsored an ad during this year’s Super Bowl game. According to the Associated Press, Florida quarterback, Tim Tebow, and his mother will be in the ad discussing his birth. Reportedly Tebow’s mother gave birth to him after it was advised that she have [...]

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Lent film discussions

Olivet Christian Church will be holding film discussions about race and class on the Sundays leading up to Easter.  The sessions will be at 5 p.m. starting Feb. 21 and ending on March 28. Films that will be discussed include: “Grand Canyon,” “Frozen River,” The Station Agent,”The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” and “The Shawshank [...]

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Voting for this year’s Beliefnet Film Awards begins this week

The fifth annual Beliefnet Film Awards voting begins this week. Beliefnet allows viewers to vote for films they believe are the most inspiring and spiritual. There are three different categories; best spiritual film, best inspirational film and best spiritual documentary. Viewers can vote from Feb. 3 to Feb. 26 on their Web site. The people’s [...]

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Holy Goldfish

I’ve been to many different churches and faith communities in my day, 21 years to be precise. Now I realize that this may not be the longest time span in the history of the church as a whole – there are those that have attended the same service at the same church and sit in [...]

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One religious site spared in the movie “2012″

Yahoo recently published an article around the upcoming movie “2012″ that I found particularly interesting. The movie directed by Roland Emmerich is a disaster film about the end of the world in 2012, which is when the Mayan calendar ends. Many famous landmarks are slated to be destroyed in this film, including many religious sites. [...]

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