Josh Chetwynd is a former USA Today and Hollywood Reporter writer who has written books with titles like The Secret History of Balls and How The Hot Dog Found Its Bun, and his most recent work is titled The Book Of Nice. Subtitled "A nice book about nice...

Tomorrow, Mark Burnett and his wife, the star of Touched by an Angel, Roma Downey, will debut their much talked about TV series, The Bible, and Hollywood will closely watch the numbers to see how the series will perform for its home, The History Channel.

Several months ago I...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may not have liked the public scolding he got from former White House doctor Connie Mariano, but if he's smart, he'll listen and heed her warning -- a warning I know something about. Mine came not as an adult and not from a...

Although I am among the 78 percent of Americans who call themselves Christians, if I weren't one, the aspect of the faith that would be the most appealing to me is the confidence and peace with which many of its adherents face death. And I can't think of...

In 1994, conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, fed up with stories about the much ballyhooed left-leaning Renaissance Weekends that then-President Bill Clinton had popularized, decided it was time for right-leaning figures like her to have a conference of their own. Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Ingraham called her conference the "Dark...

It's been 32 years since the much ballyhooed take over of the Republican party by the so-called Religious Right and a narrative has emerged, especially among young Christians that many of their forbears like James Dobson, Chuck Colson, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have been far too closely wedded to...

Without taking anything away from Mitt Romney fans who think their man cleaned President Obama's clock tonight, it was the President who threw in the towel early on when he signaled that he wasn't going to fight back against the effective punches thrown by Romney. And while political commentators and...

I recently screened a disturbing and provocative film that deserves a wide showing: Rape For Profit takes a gritty look at inner-city Seattle's growing problem with human trafficking. The film isn't for the faint of heart, but it's an important look at the issues and challenges our nation...

For political junkies like me, October in an election year is the equivalent of several Super Bowl Sundays-full of not only presidential and vice presidential debates, but debates from various races across the country thanks to C-SPAN. Debates are not only entertaining and informative, they're a powerful reminder to politicians...

A few dozen pages into his forthcoming autobiography, Sinner's Creed, (written with rock biographer David Ritz) the lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp, begins kvetching about why artists like Bono and his band U2 (composed of four relatively devout Christians) managed to escape the "Christian rock" label, while...

Although it's usually "liberal elites" who are accused of being out of touch with the values, passions and interests of the heartland, when it comes to Mitt Romney and the Mormon question, I am finding that the entire political spectrum, from far right to far left, are in some sort...

Both Chick-fil-A and Starbucks appreciation days are now safely behind us, which means that we can all resume our pan-ideological purchasing patterns that include subsidizing the gay-rights movement by buying Apple computer products, shopping at Target and eating Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and subsidizing their opponents on the political...

Various writers are publicly kvetching about the decision by a Baptist-owned bookstore chain called Lifeway to stop carrying The Blind Side DVD because, according to the Southern Baptist Convention it contains "explicit profanity," takes "God's name in vain" and contains a "racial slur."

Breakpoint, the daily radio commentary started by...

The vice presidency of the U.S. is "not worth a quart of warm spit," declared one of FDR's vice presidents, John Nance Garner. That may indeed be true so long as a president doesn't die in office, but the process by which a presidential candidate chooses his running mate is...

In my book, The Lion, the Professor & the Movies: Narnia's Journey to the Big Screen, I devote a chapter to the boycott organized against Disney by members of the conservative Christian community and the smart decision on the part of one of its leaders, Richard Land, to...

Donna Summer will be lauded as the Queen of Disco in most obits, but many of these will miss the important role she played in integrating faith into pop culture, for it was Summer who, faced with a religious conversion at the height of her popularity in 1979, resisted efforts...

As incongruous as it may sound, I "celebrated" the season by watching both Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ and Bill Maher's Religulous. Not to say that I'm neutral in that debate, having both worked on the former and being a Theist for most of my life, still I...

The Salvation Army is reported to have had a saying in its early days: "Take the Devil's money to do God's work." Now a group of 20- and 30-somethings based in the Seattle area has taken that philosophy to a new level, and their story is told in a just-released...

"There's an old Greek saying," said Michael Dukakis in the heat of the 1988 campaign in a pointed attack on his opponent George H.W. Bush's boss, Ronald Reagan. "A fish rots from the head first. You know, it starts at the top."

Watching Game Change, I was reminded of that...

Comedian/filmmaker Adam Christing has posted this moving tribute to his good friend Steve Bridges, a top-notch impressionist whose victims included George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and many others, who passed away this past weekend at the age of 48.

Bridges was booked as the...