Martha Williamson's 'Touched by an Angel' was the top-rated show on CBS and earned multiple award nominations

 

Martha Williamson is the host and voice of 'A touch of Encouragement' on Beliefnet.com. She is best known as the head writer and executive producer of the long-running hit CBS television series 'Touched by an angel'. I just wish you could read about this amazing woman who has touched lives with a television series titled 'touched by an angel'. here is the interview she granted Christianity Today (CT):

Why do you think people are so drawn to this idea of angels walking among us?

I think that angels do walk among us, and if you have a sense of that, you want somebody to tell you that you're not crazy. There's a saying that each of us has a God-shaped void, and when someone finally understands that space in your heart was made for God to dwell, then it's a great relief. With Touched by an Angel, we always tried to make it about God. We never said it was a show about angels; the angels are there to point us to God.

People want to know that God is there. I have met atheists who simply decided to become atheists because they didn't want to be disappointed. The show received hundreds of thousands of letters over nine years, and people didn't write to the angels as much as they wrote to the message. They said, "Whoever's writing this message, please keep sending it out." They'd write, "It encouraged me, it changed my life, it lifted me up. I wanted to kill myself, and decided not to once I heard that God loves me, that he exists and wants to be part of my life." That was always the message that we put out there, and we tried to put it out there from a Judeo-Christian, biblical point of view.

How did you approach the portrayal of faith on the show?

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen" (Hebrews 11:1). Faith was an interesting word on our show because we need to have faith in things we cannot see but we had a one hour show every week where we had witnesses to God. You saw angels light up and say, "I am an angel from God." At that point, you don't need faith; you need the courage to accept what you now know is true.

CBS did not say to me, "We want a show about faith, or about God." CBS said, "We want to do a show about angels." I said, "If you want me to do a show about angels, it has to be biblically accurate. That means that angels are not going to be recycled dead people; we're not going to have them wiggling their noses or popping in and out or messing with people's lives. They are there to do one thing, and that is to perform God's will—to bring healing, to bring messages, to sometimes bring correction. All the things the Bible says that angels do, that's what the angels will do. And we're not going to ask them to do more."

At that point, CBS only had four weeks to put this new show together, instead of the usual nine months, so they were ready to do just about anything. As a result, I did have absolute control over the message. We protected that every single week. The message never changed from day one.

She was named in 2007 by her publisher as one of the '12 Most Powerful Christians in Hollywood.' She became the first woman to solely produce two network television dramas simultaneously. Thumbs up to this amazing woman who is not ashamed of producing a television drama of hope to the hopeless!