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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 […]

Wall Street Protests

Wall Street Protests

Over the last weeks there have been numer­ous protests on the streets of New York and around the world about cor­po­rate greed. Par­tic­i­pants in these protests are try­ing to draw atten­tion to how greed has dam­aged the econ­omy and con­tributed to the loss of many jobs.   It is true that busi­nesses always have a tendency […]

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn

  The movie ver­sion of the Twi­light series is reach­ing its end. This month the second-​​​​to-​​​​last install­ment of the movie ver­sion was released to the­aters. The movie shows the mar­riage of the hero­ine Bella, the human girl, to her great love, Edward Cullen, the vam­pire. Fic­tion, yeah, but inter­est­ing. The movie also shows the pregnancy […]

Back from the Dead, with a little help

Back from the Dead, with a little help

This is a story about believ­ing in some­one even when he makes mis­takes. Super Bowl star Plaxico Buress has been on a roller coster ride the last few years. The ride just got even more inter­est­ing this week.   Hero gone bad   For every­one who fol­lows pro­fes­sional foot­ball, the name of Plaxico Buress will be forever […]