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Did you know that the Beatles named themselves after Buddy Holly’s band, the Crickets and that several of the early Beatlemania hits are essentially skiffled-up versions of Holly songs? Keep this in mind, anyway, when you encounter “God of This City,” by Bluetree, the new evangelical worship band out of Ireland.

After enormous speculation, last night representative’s for Natasha Richardson’s husband, actor Liam Neeson, broke the news that seemed inevitable: Richardson passed away in a New York hospital from injuries related to a fall at a ski resort in Canada. Though the announcement gave few details and did not clarify if–as had been reported by some…

And more of this month in Christian celebrity infidelity… First Jon Gosselin and now LeAnn Rimes? According to US Weekly, married singer Rimes is having an affair with married actor Eddie Cibrian, whom she met on the set of a new Lifetime TV movie they’ll be starring in, this weekend, “Northern Lights.” The magazine also…

I’m not going to pretend that I’ve been following “American Idol” this season (Joanne Brokaw over at Gospel Soundcheck has been doing a very good job at that), but when I heard one of the finalists, Adam Lambert, covered one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs, “Ring of Fire,” I just had to check it…

I don’t twitter (or is it tweet?)–though a lot of my friends do. And I hear that you can develop a “following” pretty quickly if your tweets are frequent enough and clever, too. So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that “Some evangelical Christian groups are harnessing these coincident messaging flows to strengthen their religious communication…

It’s a shame that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is injured and had to drop out of “Dancing With the Stars.” Maybe it’s just the dorky two-left-footed dancer in me, but this is just about the most inspiring bit of television I’ve seen in a while. Wozniak, who’s, um, not exactly at home on the dance…

Thus far, “Big Love” has gone to great lengths to distance their storyline– a polygamous marriage in Utah– from the Mormon faith. The central characters, the Henricksons, don’t refer to themselves as Mormons, and even the throwback sect at Juniper Creek doesn’t say the word Mormon. But last night’s episode has some members of the…

According to various media outlets, actress Natasha Richardson has been critically injured in a skiing accident in Canada. Richardson, the daughter of legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave and wife of actor Liam Neeson, reportedly suffered what’s being called a “traumatic brain injury.” Richardson has two sons with Neeson: Michael, 13, and Daniel Jack, 12. Her work…

In honor of St. Patrick’s day, check out these 8 Irish blessings for luck. Here’s one of my favorites: May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again,…

A young boy (Bill Milner) who lives in a nursing home run by his parents befriends an elderly man (Michael Caine) who teaches him magic tricks and shows him what life is really about.
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