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I don’t care what you say about Elizabeth Gilbert. I loved “Eat, Pray, Love” and I don’t care who knows it. That’s why, when I read this recent New York Times book review of Claire Dederer’s “Poser” (just out from FSG) and Janet Maslin not only likens Dederer’s style and humor to Gilbert, but speculates…

Just days from Christmas, National Geographic explores the world that Jesus would have known in "Living in the Time of Jesus."

The famous painter is going to jail for a DUI.

No matter what our faith background, we’ve likely all asked ourselves the question, “What’s my calling?” The new documentary series “The Calling” airs on the PBS Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning series, Independent Lens, on two consecutive nights: Monday, December 20 and Tuesday, December 21, 2010, from 9 to 11 PM ET / PT and 8…

It’s that time of year when we bust out the credit cards and drop all sorts of cash on our friends and loved ones. Or, if you are like me, you shop all year round. Maybe you even shop as a reward for a job well done, or even a job not so well done.…

By Amy & Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas A “Biggest Loser” pays it forward, a kid honors his dad’s musical legacy and a wrestling star pays tribute to the troops. Here are this week’s most inspirational pop culture moments. The Biggest Loser” Pays It Forward On Tuesday night Patrick House became the tenth “Biggest Loser”…

Faith has an interesting, rather uncomfortable role on CBS’s hit law drama, ‘The Good Wife.’ Peter’s (the husband) spectacular and spectacularly public fall from grace leads him into a black, Protestant church, and seeking the spiritual direction of its pastor–much to his wife, Alicia’s (Julianna Margulies), well, indifference perhaps is the best word. Or maybe…

When you watch this you’ll be laughing even as you want to cover your eyes with your hands–it’s so funny and so wrong it’s almost painful. Four acrobats (translation: buff young men) have an audience with the pope–they are to perform for him. (Even writing this feels wrong). They approach him and what is the…

Check out htis new look at the Bativity through the use of various social media.

Oh how I love Dexter! More and more and more with every season. How is it that the writers of Dexter managed to make a serial killer not only so unbelievably likable, so much that you root for Dexter no matter what, but also so incredibly vulnerable too. There is something still so innocent about…

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