Sunday, November 12, 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm
DGA Theater 2 - Free Admission

Entertainment media (radio, television, movies, internet) are revolutionizing the way the world works and wonders.  Provocative moving images and high voltage sounds are a challenge to the Church's identity and mission which have been traditionally located in the Word.  The Christ and Culture question is summoned yet again in this dynamic context.  Perspectives of Evangelicals and Roman Catholics will take us on the road to understanding involvement by Christians in the intersection of media and religion.

Keynote Panel Presenters:

Robert K. Johnston, Ph.D.is Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary.  Dr. Johnston teaches courses both in Theology and Film and in Constructive Evangelical Theology.  His books include Evangelicals at an Impasse: The use of the Bible in Theology-Evangelical Options, and the newly released Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue.  Dr. Johnston is one of the members of the City of the Angels Film Festival executive committee and he and his wife Catherine Barsotti are regular movie reviewers for The Covenant Companion.

Thomas Rausch, SJ,  is T. Marie Chilton professor of Catholic Theology and chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University.  Fr. Rausch is a specialist in the areas of ecclesiology, ecumenism and the theology of the priesthood.  He has published over 90 articles and 6 books, the newest both published in 2000 are Catholics and Evangelicals:  Do They Share a Common Future? and Reconciling Faith and Reason: Apologists, Evangelists and Theologians in a Divided Church.

Dr. William D. Romanowski is Professor of Communications Arts and Sciences at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, MI.  He is an internationally recognized expert on the entertainment media, and the author of the award-winning InterVarsity Press title, Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life.

Peter Malone, MSH, is President of OCIC, the International Organization for Catholic Cinema.  He is an internationally recognized media critic with postgraduate degrees in both theology and the arts.  A  contibutor to Cine & Media, he is also the author of Films and Values, and Movie Christs and Antichrists.

Panel of Journalists:  Todd Coleman, Craig Detweiler, Sylvia Gambardella, Barbara Nicolosi