I can't sleep. And when I can't sleep, most often I watch television.

I wish to God there was a decent Christian network on television. I wish there was good Christian programming on television. We can lament all day and night about the lack of good television on the major networks, but when it comes right down to it the worst television off all is on Christian channels like TBN.

What's worse is that TBN has decent programs but throws them out there at 3 in the morning on occasion. So, instead of airing a reality show like Travel the Road or TruthQuest during prime time they elect to show a fifteen year old re-run of some idiot in a bad wig preaching Hell-fire and damnation.

Shame on us Christians for not standing up and asking for more from the major networks. But shame on us twice for not asking for more from the so-called Christian networks!

Start a Christian network aimed at the MTV/VH1/Comedy Central crowd. Somebody find some money and start a Christian network for people like you and me.

Start out small. Read Bob Briner's Roaring Lambs and Final Roar. Show re-runs of Joan of Arcadia and the quality Christian shows the existing Christians networks shove into the wee hours on the morning. Show movies like Levity, Bruce Almighty, Shadowlands, Stigmata, and The Big Kahuna.

Of course PAX TV was supposed to eventually offer all of this and do a decent job with shows like 7th Heaven and Touched By An Angel. But for the most part they show gameshows like Family Feud every night and offer little original programming,

Here's the thing. Bob Briner mentioned his friend Mack Perryman who was to head a Christian branch of HBO that never got off the ground. Well, after many years as senior VP of HBO Asia, Perryman retired a few years ago and moved back to the states. Someone out there find him, hand him a big wad of cash and tell him to call Cameron Strang, Steve Taylor, Billy Graham, Mel Gibson, Phil Vischer, David Bruce and whomever else makes sense.

Maybe I just need a satellite dish (I have been made aware of JCTV), but please pray with me for something radical like this to happen and for it to be made widely available. In a year where Christians proved that they are a marketable commodity with The Passion of the Christ, I think it's time we stand up and do something about it.