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How New 'Faith-Adjacent' Films Are Preaching Beyond the Choir TheWrap 4/28/2021 © TheWrap faith adjacent films Today's faith audience seeks different messages from "what they're told on Sunday morning in church and…on Friday night at the movies," one producer says Ken Carpenter — a veteran director/producer of inspirational films whose credits include "Run the Race," Lifetime's "A Welcome Home Christmas" and the upcoming Ireland-set youth romance "Finding You" — takes issue with describing his feel-good movies as "faith-based." "It's unfortunately become sort of a pejorative term,"...

Jaffe is 98-years-old, and this was his first-ever foray into movies. Oh, and he’s Jewish. Image by Courtesy photo Larry Jaffe “I have many Jewish friends who have seen the movie and they really feel good and uplifted about it,” Jaffe said. “We need good things to happen to us after this year of isolation the pandemic has brought about.” In the movie, young Sara Hopkins, after hearing a preacher promise that faith can move mountains, begins to pray. Miracles start to occur—a bird is mysteriously healed, and suddenly people all over town are cured of their illnesses, misery and mis...

The Gainesville Sun Comparing COVID rates Red or blue counties — which are getting hit worse by the pandemic in upper Florida? To find out, I checked the New York Times’ online COVID-19 database. The selected statistic is the ”Daily Average of New Cases per 100,000” residents over the last seven days. Florida’s highest rate is found in Miami-Dade, No. 1 on the list. The next six are red counties north and west of Alachua: Lafayette, Holmes, Okaloosa, Bay, Liberty and Calhoun. Counties eight to 10 are in other directions, but six of the next nine also are red and west of us: Santa R...