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Some students–and teachers–have already been forced to give up their fun in the sun and others will be forced back into the world of textbooks and tests next week. (On the other hand, the cheers you are hearing are from all of the parents!) So in honor of the transition into fall, and because I…

Despite initial reports, the CW will offer a glimpse of the new ‘90210’ to potential advertisers: While the CW will not make promotional discs containing individual episodes (also known as “screeners”) of its teen drama available to critics or media buyers, it does intend to make the show available to industry monitoring services, such as…

It wasn’t big news, but it was making headlines in the publishing world when a new book called “The Jewel of Medina” about Aisha, the last wife of The Prophet Muhammad, hit the stands and stoked some controversy–not because of Muslim outrage, but because of a perceived Muslim outrage. Written by Sherry Jones (a non-Muslim),…

Nuns, Father Antonio Rungi, Beauty Contest, Catholic Church

We heard about it with Harry Potter in spades: that J.K. Rowling’s beloved series about witches and wizards would somehow corrupt the minds and religious practices of youth all over the world. We heard about it with Philip Pullman, too, that somehow his magnificent trilogy “His Dark Materials” was going to turn kids into atheists.…

In this hilarious montage of clips from an episode of “The Office,” Dwight, played by Rainn Wilson, uses the Amish technique of shunning (other religions have versions of shunning as well), against a co-worker, Andy. Watch the video below.

As you may have already heard from Gospel Soundcheck blogger Joanne Brokaw, pastor and Planetshakers band member Michael Guglielmucci, recently confessed to lying about battling terminal leukemia, duping his congregation, fans, and most shockingly, his wife and family. According to Australia’s Herald Sun, “The deception included conducting performances with an oxygen tube in his nose…

Have New York’s Upper East Side rich kids set an impossibly high bar for titillation, or will their West Coast Beverly Hills-dwelling teen counterparts kick their six-packs and bikinis up a notch, making the new “90210” a real contender? When the Parents’ Television council called the teen drama “Gossip Girl” (also airing on the CW)…

In a bit of irony that one only hopes he’s enjoying in his latest destination somewhere beyond the stars, Dave Freeman, co-author of the groundbreaking 1999 travel book “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” passed away on Aug. 17 after falling in his Venice, Calif. home. He was just 47. The book not only…

Author and megachurch pastor Lee Strobel wasn’t always such a high profile Christian–he was actually a spiritual skeptic until the early 80s. However, after interviewing dozens of scientists for his books “The Case for Christ,” “The Case for a Creator,” and “The Case for Faith,” Strobel concludes that the latest evidence points to God as…
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