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X Games Lady Snowboarder Shows Faith

X Games Lady Snowboarder Shows Faith

Just a short note. I was watch­ing the Win­ter X Games last night and saw an awe­some win by Kelly Clark on the half-​​​​pipe. She did tricks no other girl snow­boarder could do and seemed to sim­ply just be hav­ing fun rather than com­pet­ing in one of the most pres­ti­gious ath­letic events of the year. […]

Phillip Rivers and His Catholic Faith

Phillip Rivers and His Catholic Faith

I had always admired San Diego Charg­ers quar­ter­back as a top-​​​​class player and fierce com­peti­tor, but I didn’t know until today that he was Catholic and how much his Catholic faith and val­ues mean to him. Way cool!!! (Story here from The National Catholic Reg­is­ter: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholic-quarterback-philip-rivers-passes-on-the-faith/) Catholic Quar­ter­back Philip Rivers Passes On the Faith San Diego Chargers’ […]

Actor Mark Walhberg: Faith My Biggest Success

Actor Mark Walhberg: Faith My Biggest Success

This month’s release of the movie Con­tra­band has put actor Mark Wahlberg once again in the Hol­ly­wood spot­light. Mark recently did an inter­view on CNN about his faith walk that has got­ten a lot of atten­tion. Let’s look briefly at the dra­matic life jour­ney that Mark explains in that inter­view and see if we can […]

Tebow’s Crazy Season: Some Lessons

Tebow’s Crazy Season: Some Lessons

It’s been a pretty cool year for Tim Tebow and the Den­ver Bron­cos. All the NFL experts have con­tin­ued say­ing that Tebow can­not play suc­cess­fully as a quar­ter­back in the NFL. Yet Tebow and the Bron­cos actu­ally made it  to the play­offs and have just pulled off an unlikely vic­tory against the mighty Pitts­burg Steelers, […]

Father’s Heartache Inspires Christian Album

Father’s Heartache Inspires Christian Album

Sad­ness and pain is not some­thing we look for­ward to. But life brings plenty of it. So much so that when we are suf­fer­ing we often ask where God is in all of it. This is a story of some­one who is search­ing for an answer to that ques­tion in a beau­ti­ful way. The story […]

New Miracle. New Saint.

New Miracle. New Saint.

North Amer­ica will have a new saint soon. A sec­ond mir­a­cle due to the inter­ces­sion of Blessed Kateri Tekaw­itha has been offi­cially approved by the Vat­i­can. Kateri was an Amer­i­can Indian girl who died at the age of 24. Here are the basics of the mir­a­cle that was just approved. At the end, we offer […]

Justin and Selena Give Back at Christmas

Justin and Selena Give Back at Christmas

I hope Bon­nie Fuller and HollywoodLife.com don’t object too much to me repost­ing their story here. Good job, Selena and Justin! Link: http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/12/16/justin-bieber-selena-gomez-charity-helping-children-philanthropy/ Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Are Heros For Help­ing Chil­dren Des­per­ately In Need   Decem­ber 16, 2011: Justin and Selena are so rich and famous they could eas­ily not bother doing the hard stuff– […]

Jersey Shore: Just Funny?

Jersey Shore: Just Funny?

Accord­ing to recent sur­veys, Jer­sey Shore is one of the most pop­u­lar shows on tele­vi­sion, even among teenagers. Yet it deals con­stantly with “adult” sit­u­a­tions that most par­ents would not want their teenagers to be involved in: drink­ing, nasty back-​​​​biting and temper-​​​​tantrums, highly phys­i­cal rela­tion­ships with­out com­mit­ment, wild par­ties, etc.   What makes this TV show […]

Vampire Notes

Vampire Notes

The movie Break­ing Dawn, Part I, is about to hit the­aters. This and other media pro­duc­tions like The Gates, The Vam­pire Diaries, and True Blood, are just a few of the recent crop of vam­pire sto­ries. But the fear that moti­vated the sto­ries of those grave rob­bers stems from a long his­tory of folk­lore reaching […]

Colt McCoy: Beyond Expectations

Colt McCoy: Beyond Expectations

(Octo­ber 31, 2011)  Cleve­land Browns quar­ter­back Colt McCoy is only in his sec­ond year in the NFL, but he has already sur­prised many crit­ics by his abil­ity to com­pete bet­ter than most peo­ple thought he would.   Colt cred­its his abil­ity to play beyond expec­ta­tions to his upbring­ing. He says his par­ents and his faith have […]