{"id":1868,"date":"2012-01-18T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2012-01-18T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:38:43","slug":"headlines-starring-lino-rulli-tim-tebow-and-mark-wahlberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/01\/headlines-starring-lino-rulli-tim-tebow-and-mark-wahlberg.html","title":{"rendered":"Headlines starring Lino Rulli, Tim Tebow and Mark Wahlberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Yes YOU can win a day with Lino Rulli! <\/strong>Time with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=lino+rulli+sinner&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;index=stripbooks&amp;hvadid=9227050927&amp;ref=pd_sl_3ggm0x5e1m_e\"><em>Sinner<\/em><\/a> author and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/thecatholicchannel\">SiruisXM\/Catholic Channel<\/a> host is the prize in Servant Books&#8217; <em>Saints, Sinners and Salami<\/em> contest. The winner gets a trip to New York City and the opportunity to spend a day with Lino, visiting\u00a0 his favorite Italian food joints as well as the city&#8217;s most compelling Catholic landmarks.\u00a0 The contest begins Monday (1\/23). Details, I&#8217;m told, will be made available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancatholic.org\/sinner\/\">here<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tPmVU107PiQ&#038;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Tim Tebow declines CBS offer.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2012\/01\/17\/tebow-declines-invitation-to-appear-on-cbss-nfl-today\/\">From CBS Denver<\/a>: <em>It turns out the season really is over for Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow after he declined an invitation to appear on CBS\u2019s NFL Today this Sunday. CBS had asked Tebow to sit down for NFL Today with Shannon Sharpe and the rest of the gang before the AFC Championship game&#8230;It\u2019s easy to see why the network, which owns CBS4, wanted to keep Tebow on. The last two Broncos games have had huge ratings around the nation.<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Comment:<\/strong> There&#8217;s really no question that the Bible-believing and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/01\/12\/tim-tebow-charity-donations_n_1201794.html\">charitable<\/a> QB brought in lots of viewers who aren&#8217;t usually into football &#8212; a demonstration, I think, of America&#8217;s fascination with and desire for idealistic heroes.\u00a0 Just imagine the ratings if the Broncos had gone all the way to the Super Bowl. <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cKAyExg_kJ0&amp;feature=player_embedded\">From Big Hollywood<\/a>: (Actor) <em>Mark Wahlberg is\u00a0a Roman Catholic who goes to church every day to pray to be a better servant of God, a better man. Refreshing, to say the least.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Mark Wahlberg on Faith, Family, Hard Work, and What He Prays For\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKAyExg_kJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> On Monday I wrote that I&#8217;d be posting a review of the life-affirming film drama <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/01\/october-baby-due-in-march-tim-tebows-message-scores-in-americas-living-rooms.html\"><em>October Baby<\/em><\/a> set for release in March. I&#8217;ve decided that it would be more appropriate to hold off on that until closer to the actual release date.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Yes YOU can win a day with Lino Rulli! Time with the Sinner author and SiruisXM\/Catholic Channel host is the prize in Servant Books&#8217; Saints, Sinners and Salami contest. The winner gets a trip to New York City and the opportunity to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9,24,28,29,31,1],"tags":[35,1141,2257,2256,2258,1540,2250,2253,2259,2251,2254,2252,2255],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-catholic-church","category-christianity","category-movies","category-radio","category-sports","category-television","category-uncategorized","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-big-hollywood","tag-broncos-quarterback-tim-tebow","tag-cbs-denver","tag-cbss-nfl-today","tag-lino-rulli","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-servant-books-saints","tag-shannon-sharpe","tag-sinner-author","tag-sinners-and-salami-contest","tag-siruisxmcatholic-channel","tag-tim-tebow-declines-cbs-offer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Headlines starring Lino Rulli, Tim Tebow and Mark Wahlberg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/01\/headlines-starring-lino-rulli-tim-tebow-and-mark-wahlberg.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Headlines starring Lino Rulli, Tim Tebow and Mark Wahlberg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. 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