Adventures in Odyssey
Adventures in Odyssey is a radio drama and comedy series created and produced by Focus on the Family. The series first aired in 1987 under the title Family Portraits. As of 2005, the show’s daily audience averaged around 1.2 million within North America. Life in Odyssey is never boring! The wacky adventures of the Odyssey gang lead them to learn new lessons in honesty, brotherly love, and helping one another – with the help of John Avery Whittaker, of course. Visit this website to listen online or listen using the OnePlace.com App.
Nest Family Entertainment Bible Videos
Ness Family Entertainment has produced dozens of high quality animated Bible videos that can inspire children of all ages. Magnificent music, excellent character developments with outstanding artwork and design.
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Top 5 Websites with Christian Movie Reviews
Joshua Ogaldez, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Jun 5, 2010
1.) ChristianAnswers.net (http://www.christiananswers.net/)
ChristianAnswer.net is a resourceful, quality website that provides biblical answers to modern day, hard questions, biblical advise for daily living, and, lastly, reviews on recently released video games and films from a Christian perspective.
The sites’ film reviews provide users with two ratings: a moviemaking rating and a moral rating. The moviemaking quality rating is given to users through the classic a five-star scale system. The moral rating, based on the film’s messages and, also, the amount of profanity, violence and sex/nudity in the film, is given by placing each individual film in one of the following five categories: “Offensive”, “Average”, “Better Than Average”, “Good” and “Excellent”.”Excellent” being given to film’s with exemplary morals, while “Offensive” is given to the films with poorest morals. The site’s film reviews also includes a summary of the film’s plot as well as a section where users of the site can give comments on the film, categorized “Positive”, “Neutral” and “Negative”.
2.) MovieGuide(http://www.movieguide.org/)
MovieGuide gives its readers in depth analyses on films from a Judeo-Christian perspective. The sites’ reviews use a five star scale rating to rate the film’s quality and a -4 to +4 to rate the film’s morality. -4 is given to films with the deliberate immorality +4 is given to films with exemplary morality. Lastly, it is important to note that each review provides readers with a detailed account of the film’s content and a summary of the film.
(Sidenote: The portion of the review that analyzes the film’s content has abbreviations such as “HH”, “PaPa”, and “CCC”. Each abbreviation is specific. For instance, “HH” stands for “strong humanistic or humanist elements”, “PaPa” stands for “strong pagan worldview or world elements” and “CCC” stands for “very strong Christian Worldview or elements, Gospel Witness, or positive reference to Jesus Christ, Christianity or his church”. To learn more about how Movieguide’s reviews work, click here.)
3.) Plugged In (http://www.pluggedin.com/movies.aspx)
Plugged In is a Focus on the Family publication that offers believers reviews from a Christian perspective on popular films, music albums, video games, and television shows.
Plugged In‘s film reviews begin with a summary of the film, followed by several sections that delve into the content of the film. The “Positive Elements” section gives readers an inside look at the positive aspects of the film. The “Spiritual Content” section brings the spiritual content of the film to reader’s attention, whether the spiritual content of the film be Christian, New Age or occultic. The “Sexual Content,” “Crude or Profane Language,” “Crude or Profane Language,” “Drug and Alchohol,” and the “Other Negative Elements” sections gives readers a look at the objectional material of the film. Lastly, Plugged In ends its reviews with a concluding.
4.) Crosswalk (http://www.crosswalk.com/movies/)
Apart from being an resourceful online site with pieces geared to help Christians with their Christian living, Crosswalk also has helpful reviews for believers on recently released films.
Crosswalk’s reviews, for the most part, can be connotated as traditional. The site’s reviews are composed of a summary of the film as well as an evaluation of the film’s quality. The most helpful portion of the reviews is the “Cautions” section, found after the ‘traditional’ part of the review. This section alerts readers of the amount of profanity, and sexual, drug-related and violent content in the film as well as provides insight as to the religious content of the film.
5.) Jesus Freak Hideout (http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/movies/default.asp)
Although primarily a website dedicated to the world of Christian Music, Jesus Freak Hideout also has some devotionals and film reviews.
Jesus Freak Hideout divides its review in three sections; a plot summary, a ‘traditional’ review, and ends with a parental guide that goes through some of the content parents should be cautious about in the film.