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It was just a few weeks ago that I blogged about the interesting piece Daniel Radosh wrote for the New York Times on what he thinks are the top ten Christian songs. Then I read a review of the self-proclaimed secular, liberal Jew’s new book, “Rapture Ready” over at Slate, which intrigued me enough to…

Just about everyone knows about James Frey’s fall from grace and off the best-seller list with his faux memoir “A Million Little Pieces.” A public reprimand on Oprah’s couch will do that to an author. (Or anyone for that matter.) But according to Janet Maslin’s book review, “Little Pieces of Los Angeles, Done His Way,”…

Every parent wants a better life for their children, better than the one they had. It’d be pretty astounding to hear fledgling parents at a dinner party say, for example, that they’d like to put as many obstacles as possible in their kid’s path or quote “no pain, no gain” as a mantra of childrearing.…

There’s a new release out that piled up well over $500 million—that’s “Fiiiive Hundred Meeeellion Dollarzzz”—in its first week of release, including a whopping $310 million in it’s opening day. What a blockbuster! But it wasn’t the new Indiana Jones movie. It wasn’t a Star Wars sequel. In fact, it wasn’t a movie at all.…

Jamie Lynn’s been under the radar as her belly’s been expanding with the promise of new life, staying out of the eye of stalkerazzi, so we don’t have to be subjected to photos of her scarfing down Arby’s. But according to PerezHilton, the imminently maternal Spears did emerge from deep cover to attend church on…

Laila Lalami, a novelist and literary blogger, has a review of the new indie film “The Visitor” in The Nation that serves as a mini-compendium of Muslim film, and how Hollywood has represented Islam since 9/11.

This summer’s upcoming reboot of the “X-Files” franchise after more than six years of living in a Mulder and Scully-less world, rebirth of the “Star Wars” franchise in the form of a computer-animated feature film and television series, and retirement of “Battlestar Galactica,” as it (hopefully) finally finds Earth, got us thinking about the great…

In addition to the typical big-name high profile movie fare that usually debuts at the Cannes Film Festival, Sean Penn, this year’s Cannes Jury President, has handpicked an unlikely documentary to also make its debut this week. “The Third Wave” a film by Australian-born director Alison Thompson was created out of footage Thompson and other…

For all you “Twilight” series fans (whether or not you prefer Edward or Jacob), if you haven’t seen it already, the first trailer for the movie from MTV films just released this week. Check it out here. As Time Magazine recently dubbed Meyer the world’s next J.K. Rowling (see fellow Idol Chatter blogger Paul O’Donnell’s…

Check out our hot off the press list of Reality TV’s most memorable Christians. Do you agree with our selections? Disagree? Think we’re totally crazy? Leave your comments below. We want to know what you think!
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