{"id":2871,"date":"2011-04-06T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:47:14","slug":"and-the-christopher-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/04\/and-the-christopher-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Christopher goes to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026theses guys: here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophers.org\/Page.aspx?pid=1291\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>a list of this year\u2019s winners of the esteemed Christopher Awards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the press release notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First presented in 1949,\u00a0<strong>The Christopher Awards <\/strong>honor writers, producers, directors and illustrators in the publishing, film, TV and cable industries whose work affirms the highest values of the human spirit. \u2018This year\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Christopher Award <\/strong>winners creatively demonstrate the transformative impact that faith, courage and action can have on people\u2019s lives,\u2019 said Mary Ellen Robinson, vice president of The Christophers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When a documentary that I co-wrote won a Christopher Award several years back, I told my colleagues, \u201cThis is the one prize that really matters. This is what it\u2019s all about.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0I still feel that way.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m especially pleased that one of those being recognized is the film \u201cThe Human Experience,\u201d by Brooklyn\u2019s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grassrootsfilms.com\/home.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Grassroots Films<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0It couldn\u2019t happen to a better bunch of people. \u00a0Check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Human Experience OFFICIAL TRAILER - OWN IT ON DVD TODAY - Grassrootsfilms.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ORTN6WL33_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026theses guys: here\u2019s a list of this year\u2019s winners of the esteemed Christopher Awards. 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