Michael Jackson
'My Childhood, My Faith,' by Michael Jackson
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The Pop Star Discusses His Childhood
Read the essay Michael Jackson wrote for Beliefnet about his childhood, going door-to-door as a Jehovah's Witness missionary, and how he "wished to be a normal boy."
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Will Michael Jackson's Fame Trump His Faith?
While Michael Jackson's memorial service could highlight funeral rituals associated with a particular faith, it may ultimately demonstrate the power of celebrity as a new kind of sacred.
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Master of an Empty Kingdom: The Tragically Short Life of Michael Jackson
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach reminisces over the death of his estranged friend, Michael Jackson
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American Idol Season 9 Hollywood Week - Blogging live!
Date: 02/09/2010
Tonight's episode of American Idol is one many of us have been waiting for: it's Hollywood Week! And tonight, new judge Ellen DeGeneres joins the panel. Join me here while I blog live during the show! 7:45 PM - as I wait for the show to start, I've been noticing some stories on the web about Ellen saying that Simon Cowell is meaner than she thought, and that after Hollywood Week she's asked to ...
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American Idol Season 9 "Road to Hollywood" auditions - Blogging live
Date: 02/03/2010
Tonight is the last night of regular auditions for Season 9 of American Idol, and we get to take a peek at more auditions from the cities Idol visited last summer: Boston, LA, Dallas, Denver, Chicago and Orlando. Hopefully, we see the best and not the worst, and maybe we'll see some of the contestants rumored to have made the Top 24 but still strangers to us (including contestants with ties t ...
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'We Are the World' Redux to Help Haiti
Date: 02/03/2010
Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, three Jonas Brothers, two Beach Boys, Pink, Jeff Bridges, Vince Vaughn, Usher, Akon, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Toni Braxton, Snoop Dogg and Josh Groban. And oh yes, BARBRA. What could bring all that star power together, for a video filmed by award-winning director Paul Haggis? A desire to help the people of Haiti. This is the rebirth of " We Are the World ," a song first re ...
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Mark McGwire Lives in Denial... Say a Prayer for Him
Date: 01/12/2010
Disgraced ex-baseball star Mark McGwire finally sobbed out his steroid confession yesterday. No one was the least surprised; no one should be the least bit impressed. I once cheered for McGwire who hit 583 career home runs with Oakland and St. Louis, and is best known for his 1998 record-breaking home run duel with Sammy Sosa (also a steroid customer) by hitting 70. Today, I' ...
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Weekly Meanderings
Date: 01/09/2010
It's been a cold week in Chicago, our home town. But that doesn't mean Chicagoans can't have some fun sledding . Avoid these words! But think about the RAP with JR Briggs. Or of this Retreat for pastors . And this reminder for church staffs . And this one for race classifications . Just in case you haven't seen Michael Spencer's (iMonk's) news . A story of cour ...
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Farewell to the Music Greats of 2009
Date: 12/29/2009
The New York Times has a superb video tribute to the music greats we lost in 2009 , from Michael Jackson to Koko Taylor, Mary Travers, and Sky Saxon, all in under five minutes. Well worth a look.
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George W. Bush: Most Important Person of the Decade
Date: 12/29/2009
End of the Decade - Day Seven of Ten posted by Ethan Nichtern George W. Bush was the most important person of the decade. I know what you're saying. That statement seems decidedly un- Buddhist , for more than one reason. First of all, aren't all sentient beings equally important? Answer: I hope so. So, perhaps I should define the sense of the word "important" here. I mean it ...
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The Alternate-Reality Decade
Date: 12/28/2009
If you would have invested one hundred dollars in the stock market in January of 2000, by December of 2009 it would be worth just ninety. This has led some writers to describe the past ten years as the lost decade. I disagree. Loss assumes an unconscious act of forgetfulness. This, by contrast, was a decade of deliberate escape, an era in time when America chose to enter an alternate reality. ...
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