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Mormon youth have a super-tight culture informed by their faith. So do evangelical Christians. Catholics not so much. And unless you are Orthodox, apparently being young and Jewish may leave you longing for something more from your tradition as far as culture goes–at least according to a recent New York Times, Style section article, “You’re…

Have you read about the Tiger Mother yet? Everyone else has–and is talking about her–so I suggest you get reading. The mother’s name is Amy Chua, she is a professor at Yale Law School, and where I first heard about this suddenly-famous woman came from The Wall Street Journal, where they excerpted her brand new…

Here are a few of my favorite Globes moments.

By Amy & Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas The President asks us to live up to a young girl’s vision of the nation, an Icelandic singer saves her country’s nature and a Harry Potter group fights real-life evils. President Obama Urges Us to “Live Up to Her Expectations” This week the nation witnessed one of…

Elizabeth Hughes, 8, made her national anthem debut for the Tampa Bay Lightning’s, affiliate (AHL Norfolk Admirals) during a home game against the Connecticut Whale (Rangers) last Friday night. How it started was amazing. Hughes has a voice of an angel, but after she sang the two words “was proof” the battery in her microphone…

Yes, you read that right. So yesterday I blogged about an article I found that discussed outsourcing the soul, and today, while reading the latest issue of New York Magazine I came across a big, splashy “best-of” yoga article, “Highly unorthodox poses from New York’s yoga vanguard,” that included the newest, edgiest trends in yoga.…

Um, what? At least that was my reaction when I read this phrase in the recent, very tongue and cheek New York Times article, “Searching for the Soul to Cleanse It” by Ariel Kamner, about the weird rituals that city-dwellers undertake when they are, um, I guess, spiritually confused. In addition to musings about her…

A confession: I have never seen a Muslim-directed movie before, which I think, according to at least Haroon Moghul over at Religious Dispatches and I’m sure a few others, makes me rather impoverished. In his recent article, “How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer,” Moghul reviews what he regards as the Top Ten Films to…

It’s old news that everyone loves Bella, Edward, Jacob and the rest of their furry, fangy friends. But it’s just recently that they took home lots of kudos at the People’s Choice Awards for their performances in ‘Eclipse,’ the third installment in what has become the five-part movie series of the ‘Twilight Saga.’ E! Online…

Kirk Cameron dishes on dead birds, end times and his new film with Anderson Cooper.
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