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This weekend marks a National Day of Unplugging: an organization called Reboot created the "Sabbath Manifesto," which provides ten core principles to guide the unplugging.

In this film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name, Miley Cyrus plays a teenager who reconnects with her father, played by Greg Kinnear, and falls in love during a summer away from home. The film releases March 31, 2010.

Lehava, a Israeli organization, has publically called for supermodel Bar Refaeli to dump her boyfriend, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and marry a nice Jewish man instead. The organization also sent a letter to Refaei’s mother. How inappropriate! Carrie Sloan over at AOL’s Lemondrop recently posted a open letter to model Bar Refaeli, urging her not to…

One of the more religious practices in our country is taking place this month. And no, it’s not “Lent!” Okay, well, actually “Lent” is taking place for many faithful Christians across the land, but my guess (and what seems to be the cultural agreement!) is that more Americans are practicing the March ritual of making…

Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse get the parody treatment on YouTube.

“The Blind Side” turned out to be much more than the football movie everyone expected it to be. It inspired many to live their faith through their actions instead of just their words, recently winning the People’s Choice Award for Beliefnet’s Best Spiritual Film of the Year. And Sandra Bullock’s portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy,…

Well, whatever. I’m glad it didn’t win. I might be the only person in the world who didn’t like ‘Avatar’, but I don’t care: I thought the story itself was boring, overly basic, and oh-so-unbelievably derivative, especially for people who read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Sure, the special effects are genius and…

Inspirational pop culture moments for the week of March 8, 2010

I love fictional vampires, especially the ones that show signs of more substance than just the bite-and-kill instinct. First, there’s my well-documented love for all things Buffy, plus I have read every Anne Rice book, and even saw that awful “Queen of the Damned” film. But there’s something about this Twilight series – from the…

In terms of plot, I think “Eclipse” is my favorite of the Twilight Saga books. Well, aside from “Twilight”. It has lots of sign-worthy Bella-Edward romantic moments, plus some good Edward-Jacob conflict, and then, of course, the moment of reckoning between Bella and Jacob, when she decides to choose Edward forever. So I’m excited to…
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