Articles for tag: The Blind Side

December 9, 2016

By Jennifer Johnson Two mistakes are easy to make when reading B.J. Leonard“s story. The first is to think you could never do what he did””give up your dream house in the suburbs to move into the inner city with your wife and three young kids. The second is to believe you could totally do what he did because you”ve romanticized it as a sequel to The Blind Side. B.J., his wife, Mary, and his daughters aren”t reaching out to urban Decatur, IL, because it”s easy, but they”re also not doing it to experience the warm fuzzy feelings of “saving”

October 11, 2014

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square

Integrating Faith with Art

Joe D”Alessandro has been in the film industry since 1981. He has worked on such films as The Natural, Maximum Overdrive, Crimes of the Heart, The Prince of Tides, The Blind Side, The Hunger Games, Nell, The Hudsucker Proxy, and The Secret Life of Bees. Joe, his wife, Barbara, and their son, Giancarlo, live in Wilmington, North Carolina, where we caught up with him in the middle of filming Under the Dome, the Stephen King inspired CBS television series. In 1953, Joe”s parents moved to the United States from Italy. Joe says they were “the last vestiges of the traditional

August 25, 2010

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square

Interview with Bill Ewing

By Brad Dupray As senior vice president of production administration at Columbia Pictures, Bill Ewing was overseeing production of movies such as Spiderman, Men in Black II, and Stuart Little 2. About that time, Bill felt God”s call to take a new direction with his talents. He left Sony Columbia in 2002. Today he is working to tell stories that inspire people to consider faith more seriously. Among others, he has produced the movie End of the Spear, which tells the story of the Waodani people of Ecuador and the five missionaries who were killed taking the gospel to them.

April 25, 2010

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square

God in the Cinema

By Joseph C. D’Alessandro Slow fade up from black. We hear the shuffling of feet and hushed whispers interrupted by the voice of a lecturer discussing the frescoes on the wall depicting the life and death of John the Baptist. The camera pulls back to reveal a group of exchange students looking up at the image of John”s head on a platter. The sight is familiar, yet also wonderful, dramatic, inspirational, and mysterious. This was the scene when I began my journey toward God. Much like the illiterate masses of the 15th century, I was ushered into a relationship with