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In what’s starting to become a holiday favorite on Beliefnet, “Caroling with the Stars” features songs from the year’s best Christmas albums by today’s top artists. You can listen to the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s big band version of “Jingle Bells,” Yolanda Adams’ jazzy, bluesy version of “My Favorite Things,” or Johnny Cash’s country classic, “Blue…

I’ve been obsessively catching up on the first season of TNT’s “Saving Grace” just in time for its two-part, two-night finale. I figured it would combine one of my latest, favorite TV trends–the crime procedure starring the brilliant female heroine with the killer instincts (a la Brenda Lee Johnson from “The Closer” and Temperance Brennan…

It’s not coming out until May, but you can get into the Narnia spirit with this first trailer for “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”: Click to Play Trailer

Just when you think you’ve heard enough Spears pregnancy rumors for a given year (how many babies did Britney have this year? Five?), now we’ve got the previously-sane-seeming Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears in OK! Magazine addressing rumors about her pregnancy. It’s true. And Kevin Federline is not the father (because that would be weird).…

At the beginning of “Survivor: China,” Todd Herzog was one of the most talked-about contestants on the show. Todd, a flight attendant from Utah, identified himself as a gay Mormon, which is a bit of a contradiction, considering that the Mormon church views homosexuality as immoral. However, by the time the season wrapped up, it…

In her book, “Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far,” Christian music star Amy Grant talks about her battle with depression over the years. She mentions the winter months are a particularly rough time for her. “Maybe subconsciously that is part of the reason I’ve made so much Christmas music,” she writes, “to focus on…

It’s an odd idea that we have hopes for TV characters–they’re cartoon characters after all, their lives flattened into two dimensions and squished into half-hour segments with a piquant point or a hastily arranged outcome, the way life doesn’t. After last week’s episode of TNT’s “Saving Grace,” I was caught hoping Grace Hanadarko was going…

This Sunday, CBS will air a documentary, “In God’s Name,” that interviews 12 spiritual leaders, including the Dalai Lama and Pope Benedict XVI, about “myriad issues in our post-9/11 world, including the rise of terrorism, fanaticism, intolerance, and war,” according to the press release. Watch more: Click to Play Video The show is by French…

Only the hardest of hearts will be immune to “Juno.” Jason Reitman’s latest film about a high school girl named Juno MacGuff who gets pregnant the very first time she has sex with her sweet-natured, timid childhood friend, Paulie Bleeker, is sarcastically funny (though never darkly so), and at times, unexpectedly touching. Maybe it’s the…

Every year, there’s a holiday-time song that gets to me (even more than that Folgers commercial where the kid comes home to surprise his parents). It’s about life, loss, regret, and what happens when reality intrudes on your hopes and dreams.Basically, every time I hear it, I burst into tears and start questioning the choices…
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