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1 week ago | pluggedin.com | Paul Asay

We’ve been on quite the trek, the last several weeks. Way back in mid-March, Plugged In compiled a list of 64 faith-based movies (based on Box Office Mojo), seeded them into a March Madness-style bracket and asked you, the Plugged In audience, to pick your favorites. Well, you probably know which one was ultimately selected as the best of the best. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe barely broke a sweat in its early-round competitions.

2 weeks ago | pluggedin.com | Paul Asay

I’m an English lit geek, and one of my all-time favorite authors is Charles Dickens. The Stephen King of his day, Dickens was the Victorian age’s most popular writer, cranking out bestsellers with alarming rapidity. And more than 150 years after his death, he’s still selling books. Most of his works have never been out of print. But one of his books, The Life of Our Lord, was never meant to be published at all.

3 weeks ago | pluggedin.com | Adam Holz

I think most parents would like to believe that we understand our kids. That we “get” them and recognize the forces shaping their lives. They may think we don’t, as lots of rolled eyes would sarcastically imply. But—speaking for me as a dad, at least—I like to believe I’m not as clueless as my three teens may sometimes think I am. But sometimes I have a moment of realization that things really are different.

3 weeks ago | pluggedin.com | Bob Hoose

Each year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) presents a showcase of all sorts of new wiz-bang electronics, computer hardware and software innovations. This year it was hosted in Las Vegas at a convention center that encompassed some 2.9 million square feet of displays, showcased over 4,500 presenters and was a short-term second home for some 141,000 attendees with durable walking shoes.

4 weeks ago | pluggedin.com | Paul Asay

In 2017, Dallas Jenkins—fresh off the underwhelming release of The Resurrection of Gavin Stone—created a short, Christmas-themed film called “The Shepherd.” Jenkins hoped to screen it on Christmas Eve at his home church. But he also thought it might just serve as a springboard for a more audacious plan: A multi-season television series based on the life of Jesus. Well, the small seed that was “The Shepherd” grew into The Chosen, now in its fifth season.