Hollywood Entertainment Will Get Even Worse in the Future for Christian Families, Minno CEO Warns
The CEO of a faith-based streaming alternative for children says many Christian parents are unaware of the agendas at big-name studios that offer content antithetical to what the Bible teaches.
Erick Goss is the CEO of the faith-based streaming service Minno, which offers faith-centric content for kids and has a goal of “raising the next generation of believers,” according to its website. Its new series Young David launches Nov. 10 in partnership with Slingshot Productions, Sunrise Animation Studios, and Angel Studios.
Minno is filling a “huge gap” in the U.S. entertainment market and also the world market, Goss said.
“And that gap has become much bigger,” he told Christian Headlines, referencing changes to Hollywood in recent years. “What a lot of Christian families don’t know is that at the mainstream studios, because of the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives — every show right now has to have a non-traditional family role included into that programming.”
Mainstream entertainment, he believes, is going to go from “bad” to “worse” in the future “in regards to what your kids get exposed to.” The big-name studios, he said, are promoting content that is “antithetical to kind of what we believe and what we believe the Bible teaches.”
“At Minno, we believe it is a parent’s choice and responsibility to talk to their children about gender and sexual identity, and what family is [and] at what time that’s appropriate for the child. And what you’re seeing is mainstream media is basically presuming that it’s their responsibility, their right to be able to expose kids to those concepts,” Goss said. “And there’s really no research whatsoever that actually supports that actually being a good idea in the lives of kids.”
For a title to be placed on Minno’s platform, he said, it must pass a 53-point checklist and also pass a doctrinal review. The company’s name is a derivative of the Greek word “meno,” for “abide” in John 15:4.
“We want to be a partner,” he said, “with Christian parents to really help the next generation of Christians be effective.”
Photo Courtesy: Minno; used with permission.
Video Courtesy: Minno Bible Stories for Kids via YouTube
Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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