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Grizzled Vets

The folks at Grizzly Adams Productions know how to make family-friendly programs—and they've got over a thousand episodes to show for it.

By Josh Hurst | posted 3/25/2009 08:39AM

If you were around in the mid-1970s, you may remember the magnificently bearded Dan Haggerty in a popular movie and subsequent TV series called The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. The TV version beat ...

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Wayne Dudley

Posted: April 28, 2009 3:40 PM

I am so very grateful for the inspiration of Grizzly Adams productions. We use many of their resources in our Christian Education classes on Sunday mornings. What a contrast to the majority of productions we see on television today. Most sitcoms on T.V. try to get you to laugh at sin. One of TV's most successful producers of sitcoms has stated that in order to have a commercially successful production, the characters in a sitcom must violate at least three of the Ten Commandments. How tragic! But what an opportunity for people like Charles Sellier to take a stand for the truth and for the glory of God in the film and television industry.

Keith

Posted: March 29, 2009 9:24 PM

Film has always been a good format to teach many things including sharing the gospel. There are many books as well as study guides availible through Christianity Today and many other Christian outlets. Many of the films are not by Christians or directed by and definitly not the target they were looking to attract. The fact is we all find our way into the theater, rent or buy the DVD for one reason or another, especially teens. The fact is the qualitys that express Gods grace are everywhere, as well so is the qualitys that express how short man comes to accepting absoulutness of who God is can be found in all formats of the Arts. We may watch in color but the Truth is black and white, good verses evil, right verses wrong, man verses God. It can be said that nothing is totaly worthless, after all it can always serve as a "bad example"

William H Gohn III

Posted: March 28, 2009 9:51 AM


Exactly what the entertainment "world" needs! God does bless in sometimes unexpected manner .. that's what makes life so worth the hope only He can provide. My thanks to those who espouse and couragelously act on this work of faith - a hungry world's menu. Truth will not be quashed, will it? p.s. Is there a live theatre production company with similar commitments?

Gaylan

Posted: March 27, 2009 6:21 PM

GA is into family-friendly film, and that's fine. But Christian film-makers will have a more profound effect on non-Christian audiences when they target an audience other than believers, and are willing to produce high-quality film that adheres to the principle, "Show, don't tell." The best "Christian" films were not made by Christian believers. You don't have to present the whole gospel message or be moralistic to have a solid Christian message in a film. Getting your audience to ask the right questions or to question the answers the world gives is effective. When Christian film abandons preachy moralism and takes the role of a cross-cultural missionary, that will be an interesting day.

tom	Posted: March 27, 2009 6:10 PM


This is an insperational article. I was not aware they existed. I will look for their website and look into their products.

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