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Chart-Topping “I Kissed A Girl” Singer Started As CCM Performer

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

ABC News- “Before Kissing Girl, Katy Perry Sang to God”:
Katy Perry sings about kissing a girl now, but she used to sing about God.
Such is the contrast between Katy Hudson, Christian singer, and Katy Perry, chart-topper. Same girl, two stage names, two vastly different personas. And fans who loved the Katy who billed herself as [...]

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CT Reviews Sex and the City- “Yes, materialism and hedonism abound. But so does a messy wrestling with complex new realities of life that I wish I saw more of in Christian circles.”

Thursday, June 12, 2008

…The series finale (and, arguably, the entire series) was a celebration of friendship, self, and romantic love—mostly in that order.
This big screen reunion, which takes place four years later, celebrates much of the same (and more). And, like the TV series, the film offers much that will resonate with singles—and yes, even Christians—who see themselves [...]

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Thomas Nelson indefinitely delays mom Spears’ child-rearing book after younger daughter becomes pregnant

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

 
Lynne Spears’ book about parenting has been delayed indefinitely, her publisher said Wednesday.
 
Lindsey Nobles, a spokeswoman for Christian book publisher Thomas Nelson Inc., said Wednesday that the memoir by the mother of Britney Spears was put on hold last week. She declined to comment on whether the delay was connected to the revelation that Spears’ [...]

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“J. K. Rowling’s story never denies this more explicitly Christian view of love, but neither does it demand it.”

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Donald Williams at Modern Reformation- “Harry Potter and the Meaning of it All”:
The central ideas of the series then resonate powerfully with central doctrines of the Christian faith, and I do not believe Rowling could have developed them as profoundly as she did without being influenced by Christian teaching. But they do not quite rise [...]

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Church As Stage?

Thursday, August 2, 2007

The Washington Post- “Off-Off-Off Broadway: Theater Comes to Church”:
“We’re not preaching to anyone,” Behan said. “It’s not a religious show. Our Theatre Ministry is about bringing together people of all faiths, or no faith. We’re helping people who need the relief a show can offer, such as in nursing homes and hospitals, and we’re raising [...]

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