Here at Idol Chatter we often have to dig around through the pop culture items we cover to come up with a relevant religious, spiritual or ethical angle for our readers. It’s often a challenge! Case in point, I watched a movie that opened last Friday in Los Angeles (and opened a couple of weeks…

This just in: churchgoers know a bad movie when they see it. After furiously pandering to evangelical Christians in recent years, the major Hollywood studios are backing away from faith-based marketing schemes that offer churches private screenings and Bible study guides based on a movie’s characters or themes. The reason cited was simple: they don’t…

Okay, I’m going to take a minute to gush like a teenaged girl right now: Kirk Cameron, a.k.a. Mike Seaver from “Growing Pains,” that family-friendly television series that we all loved to watch during the ’80’s, has written a spiritual memoir about life on the set to give his side of the somewhat controversial stories…

Since I am not a big follower of the ever-increasing amount of Christian worship music available, I may never have stumbled across Tommy Walker’s music if it hadn’t been for my time in Los Angeles in the ’90s where every evangelical–of any denomination–knew his name. That’s because Walker has been the worship leader at L.A.’s…

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