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This Sunday night, February 10th, the music industry will hand out top honors when CBS airs the 50th annual Grammy Awards. I don’t watch award shows, but this is the 50th anniversary of the Grammys, after all. There’s plenty of hoopla scheduled to (maybe) make it worth spending almost four hours in front of the…

The “Possessed” column in last Sunday’s New York Times Style Section has Shalom Harlow waxing (not so poetically, but still) about her meditation habits and percussion instruments–which include both tapping (as in tap dancing) and playing the drums. Harlow says that drumming “puts you in this really interesting space” that’s both “meditative” and satisfyingly noisy,…

I’m an unabashed devotee of the Religion of Romance, but I must admit, the last year’s cinema offerings (or lack of them) left me a bit spiritually starved. As far as straight-up romance goes, I can’t think of a single picture in 2007 that wowed me or that sticks in my memory as a must-see-again.…

In case you haven’t heard, today marks the release of the new praise and worship compilation album, “God of This City,” by Passion, a group of Christian musicians and speakers that form the Passion movement. Included on the album are new live songs by Chris Tomlin, The David Crowder Band, Matt Redman, Charlie Hall, and…

Every network that broadcasts live TV sports offers several versions of pregame shows, which are usually pretty boring. They serve as great fare for those in sports bars, people having parties, and lonely types who have nothing else to do but watch ex-jocks talk about what might or might not happen in an upcoming game.But…

In the growing (and potentially nauseating!) world of reality TV, yesterday’s Super Bowl once again proved that professional sports are still the absolute best reality TV programming on the air. And, occasionally, it’s not only entertaining, but inspiring, as in yesterday’s game, when David beat Goliath! There’s something in all of us that understands and…

When is a Romanian movie about abortion in the dark days under Communism not about Romania or Communism? When it opens in the United States, where abortion and childbirth is not only a political issue, but a hot topic in theaters. Critics have noted the bleak contrast between the Golden Globe-nominated “4 Months, 3 Weeks…

Switchfoot and P.O.D helped pave the way for Christian artists to cross over into the mainstream market. Here are five more acts that got their start in the Christian industry but are currently making a splash in the mainstream: 1. The Jonas Brothers: Did I say making a splash? I meant causing a tsunami. The…

I may live in Brooklyn, but during the college semester I head to Boston three days a week to teach at Boston University, and today is a day of mourning in this city. The Patriots’ Perfect Season hopes were dashed last night when the Giants pulled out an end-of-game touchdown, beating the Pats 17-14. But…

The culture wars have officially gotten too complicated for me. Ben Stein, a Nixon Republican–as well as a game-show host and financial columnist–has made “Expelled,” a documentary defending the rights of neo-Creationist scientists to question the arguments of neo-Darwinians. Roger Moore, a movie reviewer and blogger for the Orlando Sentinel responds here in a strong…
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