How Hollywood Is Successfully Tapping Into Faith-Based Audiences
Hollywood, sometimes considered the last place to find anything divine, has seen the light lately, releasing a flood of faith-infused entertainment that includes TriStar's Heaven Is for Real, Focus Features' [...]
Louisville Billboard Targeting Unhappy Gay People Just Makes Everyone Unhappy
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Controversial ministry Abba's Delight has put up a billboard in Louisville, Ky., that targets "people of faith who are uncomfortable with their same-sex attractions." Abba's Delight founder Daniel Mingo says [...]
Intriguing Ads Tell Young Girls: ‘You’re Not a Princess’ and ‘Life’s Not a Fairytale’
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I am impressed. A tiny, all-female Catholic college-prep academy in Kentucky has created a curious ad campaign, via agency Doe-Anderson, that flies in the face of all my assumptions regarding [...]
Ad Campaign With Tattooed Jesus Gets Lots of Ink, Not All of It Positive
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The evangelicals at JesusTattoo.org are drawing predictably polarized responses for billboards around Lubbock, Texas, that show Christ covered in tattoos (reading "outcast," "jealous" and "addicted," among other things) and a [...]
Creationists Smite Atheists as Billboard Holy War Moves to Times Square
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Creationists have thrown the latest stone in the heated battle to piss off the most number of people with a billboard. "To all our atheist friends: Thank God you're wrong," [...]
Jesus Was the ‘Original Hipster,’ Down to His Grubby Converse Sneakers, Say Church Ads
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Every now and then, you get a provocative church ad, like Florida's "Come get hammered" billboard or pretty much anything New Zealand's St. Matthew-in-the-City puts out.