New research shows why increasing pluralism may spell end of so-called ‘war on Christmas’ By Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, New research suggests that the end of the so-called “Christmas wars”—battles over how exclusively Christian public greetings or holiday displays should be—may come from a surprising place: Aunt […]

Family-Faith Review: Little Fockers By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Dull, tasteless comedy — the second spawn of 2000’s amusing “Meet the Parents” — dominated by relatively raunchy and poorly staged gags centering on Gaylord and Pam Focker (Ben Stiller and Teri Polo), their 5-year-old twins (Colin Baiocchi and […]

Family-Faith Film Review: True Grit By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting True Grit: Exceptionally fine second screen version of Charles Portis’ 1968 novel of the Old West — first adapted by director Henry Hathaway in 1969 — in which a remarkably determined 14-year-old girl (Hailee Steinfeld) enlists the aid […]

Family-Faith Film Review: Tron: Legacy By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting The briskly entertaining, unpretentious and prescient 1982 cult classic has been loudly updated and turned into a bloated, stultifying 3-D bore by director Joseph Kosinski, with the proceedings barely propped up by some still-enjoyable gadgetry. As the son […]

Family-Faith Film Review: How Do You Know By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Cheerless romantic comedy in which a champion softball player (Reese Witherspoon), who has recently been cut from her team, worries about her future. She is also trying to decide whether she loves the good-natured but philandering […]

Get Santa out of the Lottery! By Beaver State Believer, This year Oregon State Lottery is running scratch-it tickets called “What’s in Santa’s Beard?” and last year the Michigan Lottery ran “Santa’s cash” tickets.   Why is Santa Claus selling lottery tickets.  Santa belongs to the kids not adults.  I suppose […]

By Holt International, Eugene Oregon Great news! President Obama has approved two important pieces of legislation affecting adoptive families — the Help HAITI Act, signed into law December 9th, and the Adoption Simplification Act, signed November 30th. The Adoption Simplification Act does more than simplify the process for families. It […]

New York Mosque RNA No. 1 Religion Story of the Year Religion Newswriters Association COLUMBIA, MO—Public debate and controversy over a planned Islamic community center and mosque to be built near New York’s Ground Zero ignited a national debate about religious freedom that kept the story in the news for […]

C.S. Lewis: ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ Author, Advocate for Animals By Humane Society of the United States The Humane Society of the United States is proud to present an original academic work by preeminent C.S. Lewis scholar, Gerald Root, Ph.D., “C.S. Lewis as Advocate for Animals,” which touches on the many […]

The Christmas Season brings joy, cheer and sometimes lawsuits. Yet in 2010 and 2009 has seen fewer headlines and court battles over Christmas displays and Nativity scenes. Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly notes this positive change and also spends time talking about a recent school ACLU challenge letter. The guest […]