Where Christianity intersects with politics, culture, and entertainment.
A film's music is often considered a character itself, and this season the roles composers have to play aren't getting any easier. Talking about love between the emotionally unstable is one thing, but how, for instance, does that sound? Or when a character speaks to God, should God answer back with silence or an orchestra?…
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Robert H. Schuller — the founder of Crystal Cathedral and the face of the globally watched "Hour of Power" television program — and his family will be paid just a fraction of the millions they sought from the preacher's bankrupt ministry. Schuller's daughter, Carol Milner, described Monday's ruling on intellectual property, copyright infringement and contract…
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Egypt and Turkey are forging an alliance that showcases two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape a Middle East gripped by political upheaval and passionate battles over how deeply the Koran should penetrate public life. The relationship may foreshadow an emerging regional order in which the sway of the United States gradually fades against Islamist voices…
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Alabama’s “Ten Commandments judge” has climbed back to the mountain top. Handily beating two fellow Republican challengers, Roy Moore was elected to a six-year term as the state Supreme Court's chief justice, a position from which he was ousted in 2003 for refusing to remove a 5,200-pound granite monument to the commandments from the rotunda…
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"Lincoln today is beyond partisan politics," Steven Spielberg said in a recent interview about his new movie, "Lincoln." "Yeahhhh," said screenwriter Tony Kushner, almost teasing the director into claiming the country's first Republican president for the left. "Just as long as the partisans all agree we're involved in trying to make a government work." This…
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The nearly 40,000 people at Anaheim's Angel Stadium raised their hands toward the sky, enduring triple-digit heat to receive a message of hope delivered by thunderous drums and amplified guitars. In the stands, children swayed alongside the elderly, while teenagers wearing T-shirts emblazoned with Bible passages danced with abandon. "Time has faded and we see…
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There's been a lot of talk about where faith-based groups stand on the issues and the candidates in the presidential campaign, but not so much about the faithless. Now the Secular Coalition for America, an advocacy group for atheists, has issued a report card on the candidates that knocks both major party candidates for injecting…
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Apparently, Paul Ryan and Joe Biden are both theocrats willing, nay eager, to use state power to impose their religious views on the rest of us. In last week's vice presidential debate, moderator Martha Raddatz asked the two Roman Catholic politicians "to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views…
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The annual U.N. General Assembly meeting, which is intended to celebrate the world's common values, this year is exposing instead the gulf between Western and Islamic perspectives on freedom of expression, posing an unexpected challenge for President Obama when he speaks here Tuesday. Prompted by the anti-Islam video produced in California that has stirred deadly…
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