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How has music changed your life and helped you connect with other people? That’s a question at the heart of the new movie “August Rush,” and it’s one we want to hear from you about. Post your stories below or upload your photos answering that question, and you can win one of these great prizes:…

What was your most meaningful angel experience? In mid-October Beliefnet featured a contest asking the above question with two boxes of Angelic Messenger Cards by Meredith Young-Sowers as the prizes. We were awed by your openness, honesty, and willingness to describe such personal experiences–all 116 of you who entered. After reading the stories, Beliefnet is…

I was not fortunate enough to be alive during the Norman Mailer heyday of the 1960s and early 1970s, when his writing on the American scene—from electoral politics to boxing to the space program to the Vietnam war and its discontents—appeared regularly in periodicals. His work was a heady match for his times, and he…

For someone who isn’t an avid short film watcher, it was somewhat surprising that the documentary “Bootyful World” and comedy “Good Luck in Her Eye” could encapsulate their respective stories with the ultimate message of female empowerment in under 30 minutes and give it justice. These films were a part of September’s LA Shorts Fest…

Though Mormonism is the fastest-growing religion in America, Hollywood doesn’t quite represent the rest of the country. Still, there are some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints among Tinseltown’s power players. Whether they’re converts to the faith or lifelong members, these performers and personalities have brought their values along with them…

Russell Crowe–who has long played heroic figures on the big screen while being portrayed off screen as nothing more than an angry brute–has told Men’s Journal magazine that he hopes to be baptized in the near future. The actor, who had his oldest son Charlie baptized, is considering joining his youngest son Tennyson in the…

Just as I reluctantly entered the fray over “The Da Vinci Code” movie debate, I am not interested in giving more free ink to the film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass.” I am not going to call for a boycott, and I am not going to ramble about conspiracy theories or agendas. However,…

You’ve probably seen the trailers for the upcoming “Hitman,” due for release in theatres on November 21. Timothy Olyphant stars as Agent 47, a genetically engineered assassin, direct from the successful “Hitman” video game series. What caught my attention was the trailer’s primary themes of “sinner” and “saint.” The intent is to drive home the…

A month before its theatrical release, “The Golden Compass“–the movie from the first book in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy–is sparking controversy because of what many Christians see as its message of atheism. Here on Idol Chatter, blogger Donna Freitas–co-author, with Jason King, of “Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman’s Spiritual Imagination in His…
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