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Upcoming Projects
The Price of my Soul
Biopic about Bernadette Devlin, a Republican (Catholic) civil rights and social justice activist in 1960’s Northern Ireland who, at age 21, rose up from being an oppressed, impoverished orphan to become the first Northern Irish woman and the youngest person at the time to be elected to Westminster (British) Parliament. Fiery, passionate, fierce and outspoken, she survived “Bloody Sunday”, “The Bogside Battle”, wrongful imprisonment and a 1981 assassination attempt in her home, where she was shot, in front of her children, 9 times.
The People of the Brick Kiln
A documentary about the efforts of the New Rock Church (of Seaford, DE) to establish a church, evangelize to and come to the aid of, the women and children trapped as indentured servants in the brick kilns of southern Pakistan—who endure horrific living and working conditions, as well as human rights violations (including sexual and physical abuse) in the extreme heat and cold, mud from the drowning monsoons and abject poverty of the clay hellscape in which their “owners” have them inescapably entrapped.
Light on the Hill
A documentary spending “a year in the life” following missionaries involved with Snowboarders and Skiers for Christ, a global outreach that plants ministries in resort settings and spreads salt and light into the very dark world of snow sports communities.
TV Series:
Elizabeth Wrecks
“Dr Who” meets “Northern Exposure” in this “fish-out-of-water” tale as a time travelling Queen Elizabeth I is teleported to modern day America and gets “stuck” at the Tudor Wrecking and Salvage Company in a rural New England mountain town, where she must attempt to “fit in” while trying to find a way back to 1600’s England.
Miniseries: Fierce Female Kingdom Builders Trilogy
Episode One: Scandalous!
Aimee Semple MacPherson
Pentecostal faith healer, Four Square Church Founder, leader of the Azusa Street Revival and the most famous and popular radio evangelist of the early 1900’s, Aimee Semple MacPherson was a pioneer in the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw both audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch. Condemned for her divorces, pacifism, creation of food pantries and meals where she broke laws for feeding illegal immigrants and integrating people of color into the mainstream Pentecostal church, she survived scandal, deathly illnesses, kidnapping and heartbreak.
Episode Two:
A Woman Called Catherine
Depicting the life and times of Catherine Marshall; widow of long-time Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, as well as an influential person in her own right--speaker and writer, best-selling author (including “Christy”, about her mother’s life as a teacher and missionary in Appalachia), instrumental contributor to Guidelines Magazine and co-founder of Chosen Books publishing company.
Episode Three: I Believe in Miracles! Kathryn Kuhlman
Inspired by (and often compared to) Aimee Semple MacPherson, Kuhlman was an itinerant “tent revivalist” from Missouri who began preaching at age 16, rose to fame as a faith healer, and had weekly national TV and radio programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Her flamboyant style played to packed auditoriums and her healing ministry formed the foundation of the “Latter Rain (Healing) Revival" where she was used by God to bring the charismatic message to many denominations, including (controversially) the Catholic Church. She is viewed as an important forerunner to the present-day charismatic movement, influencing faith healers Benny Hinn and Billy Burke. Like MacPherson, she had her share of controversies, marital woes, divorce and legal battles. Through them all, Kuhlman never claimed that she was the healer. She always pointed people to Jesus as their healer.
At The Well Ministries Podcast Series:
'Divorce Widow'
In ancient Rome, Greece and Israel a man could unilaterally leave his wife for any reason, at any time, verbally telling her “we are divorced” and sending her away, leaving the wife to be known as “almanah” --a “widow without a body” or simply, a wife who lost her husband—either through desertion or death, as culturally, there was no distinction between the two. Thousands of years later, we are seeing this play out in America, where, in every state, it takes two people to get married but only one to get a divorce. Each year, thousands of Christian women are divorced against their will (and in heart-breaking opposition to their faith) by husbands who desert them, leaving them modern-day “almanah”—a type of widow to whom no-one ever thinks to bring a casserole. This weekly discussion looks at how “No Fault” divorce laws have come to be weaponized against the very people they were originally created to protect—women—bringing together faith leaders, writers, counselors with survivors of “unwanted divorce” as they share their stories of loneliness and trauma--being stigmatized and marginalized at church, ignored by society, financially and emotionally devastated-- as well as their testimonies of hope and redemption when Jesus met them at their point of need.
