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As a Christian rocker, TobyMac owes nobody anything. In the 90s as a founder of the rock-rap trio dc Talk, he wrote the group’s signature song, “Jesus Freak,” and imported mainstream producers to make dc Talk’s albums and videos. He cut a new path for Christian groups in the realm of college radio and mainstream…

Fears that a Tom Cruise-controlled United Artists studio will produce Scientology-influenced cinema have spread beyond Hollywood all the way to Hamburg, Germany. Really. The grandson of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg–the man who managed to set off a bomb in Adolf Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair in 1944 killing several members of Hitler’s inner circle but not…

“The Peaceful Warrior,” starring Nick Nolte, returns to theaters this weekend following its short-lived limited release last summer. In this screen version of Dan Millman’s “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” a young gymnast finds hope and learns to achieve his full potential with the help of Nolte’s service-station mechanic/wise spiritual mentor, dubbed Socrates by…

With only three episodes left, NBC’s small town drama “Friday Night Lights” still has yet to be picked up for another season. Despite numerous critical accolades, some television viewers are still reluctant to give the series a chance. But after another tour-de-force effort last week, I am throwing one more “hail mary” out into cyberspace…

Sanjaya Malakar, the 17-year-old American Idol finalist, has had a rough couple of weeks. His singing has been eviscerated by the judges, and he’s being criticized for remaining on the show when other, more talented singers have gotten the boot (as if it’s his fault how people choose to vote). The guy whom bloggers have…

Tongues. Some are given the gift of speaking, some of interpreting, and others have only heard the gift. Having heard the gift, I count it a blessing to witness the Holy Spirit fall upon someone in such a manner that it produces a completely different and unintelligible language unknown even to the speaker. But lately,…

If some of you “American Idol” fans out there still think that finalist Chris Sligh is playing coy about whether he is Christian enough, people from his past have spoken up with their thoughts on the pressing matter. In a recent Associated Content article, a spokesperson for ultra-conservative Bob Jones University–the school Sligh once attended–has…

By now everyone should have been able to get to their recordings of “Battlestar Galactica,” and we can safely discuss the riveting season finale. If you still haven’t gotten to this Tivo’d episode … stop reading and go watch it now! All season finales are cliffhangers by nature, giving you a tantalizing glimpse into next…

If you’re a spiritually minded person who enjoys a fresh music sound that inspires, check out FFH’s current album, “Far From Home (The FFH Collection).” Unlike some other bands of their kind, FFH manages to maintain a consistently fresh sound–every song doesn’t sound the same. It’s the kind of collection a spiritually-minded person can love…

When the tempest first broke about Elizabeth Hurley’s Hindu wedding to Arun Nayar in Jodhpur, India, the headlines read “Hurley’s Interfaith Marriage Contested by Hindu Traditionalists,” and celebrity watchers and religion geeks scoffed in unison at the closed-mindedness of the Hindu hardliners. Wrote marriage maven Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, “LOVE is the same, EVERYWHERE. From…
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