Below is a transcript from a Georgene Rice KPDO FM interview with Joel Vaughan, author of “The Rise and Fall of the Christian Coalition:  The Inside Story”.   Vaughn worked with the Coalition for 10 years. Georgene: It’s important to point out that most people who hear the title of the […]

The summer blockbusters are over and the box office results are in — family friendly films are killing R-rated movies in the pocketbook.   Only one Rated-R film, The Hangover, made the top 10 box office list.  The next highest grossing Rated-R film, The Watchmen, came in at a distant #18 […]

Addicted to Facebook? — New Study Reveals Concerns and Impact of Social Media on Evangelical Christian College Students WENHAM, MA– When they’re not sending text messages or tweets, today’s Christian college students are spending time on Facebook. A lot of it. One in every three says he’s spending 1-2 hours […]

Faith and Family film review: 9 (Rated p-13) Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting 9 — Artistically accomplished but intellectually problematic animated fantasy in which the doll-like titular creature (voice of Elijah Wood) leads a band of similar beings (voiced by, among others, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly […]

Faith and family film review: Whiteout (R) Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Lackluster thriller in which a federal marshal (Kate Beckinsale) and a U.N. official (Gabriel Macht) investigate a series of murders in Antarctica, assisted by a government medic (Tom Skerritt). Though there are some suspenseful snow-blinded confrontations with […]

Among U.S. Religious Groups, Muslims Seen as Facing More Discrimination WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /Christian Newswire/ — Eight years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans see Muslims as facing more discrimination inside the U.S. than other major religious groups. Nearly six-in-ten adults say that Muslims are subject to a lot […]

By RealCatholicMen.com A strip club, two adult bookstores, an abortion mill, and … a Catholic church? They’re all within walking distance of each other in downtown Beaverton area, and the irony of the situation is not lost on David Renshaw, founder of Real Catholic Ministries. “I’m sick and tired of […]

Compensation Survey Shows Decline in Pastor’s Income CAROL STREAM, Ill., Sept. 9 /Christian Newswire/ — A recent national survey of pastors and church staff shows the compensation and benefits paid to the average pastor has declined this year compared to a slight bump up in salaries in 2008. This annual […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon Our inability to understand all God’s purposes in evil and suffering should not surprise us.  Sometimes we make the foolish assumption that our heavenly Father has no right to insist that we trust him unless he makes his infinite wisdom completely understandable […]

By S.J. Velasquez, Religion News Service: WASHINGTON—As members of a secretive brotherhood, Freemasons are no strangers to conspiracy theories. They’ve heard it all before: that they’re child-sacrificing cult members, or religious zealots plotting a New World Order with the Jews, or satanic anti-religious alien spies. With Dan Brown’s newest novel, […]