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At Church of Beethoven, music is the message
(RNS) "Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well as the mind. It's the source of a type of faith as often discovered outside tra...
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Zondervan brings Rob Bell to the app world
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) A film series founded by megachurch pastor and author Rob Bell is finding new life as a smartphone app. The series, called NOOMA, has sold more than 2 million copies, and is now available for Apple and Android platforms.
"We feel like apps are the future of h...
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HBO film follows Muslim children competing to memorize the Quran
(RNS) A new documentary follows three Muslim children as they travel to Egypt to compete in a tournament that requires young contestants to recite whole passages of the Quran, Islam's 600-page holy book, from memory.
Each year during Ramadan -- a Muslim holy month when believers fast,...
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Director steps out on a ledge with atheist film
(RNS) In the new film "The Ledge," a man perches high above the city, ready to jump to save the woman he loves.
As storylines go, perhaps it's not the most original. But what is unusual about this film, said writer/director Matthew Chapman, is that its hero is an atheist, set aloft to...
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The racy Mormon sex scandal behind `Tabloid’
(RNS) Not even an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker like Errol Morris is immune from the allure of a salacious sex scandal.
Morris ("The Fog of War") was reading his newspaper in 2008 and came across an Associated Press story about an American woman who had her pit bull cloned in So...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: The Gospel According to Harry Potter
(RNS) I was 27 when I first taught at Yale, barely five years older than the 70-plus students who stood out in the cold to enroll in my seminar on Christian theology and Harry Potter.
I'd been following Harry's adventures with interest since Christians discovered the characters used m...
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Left-leaning Christians to rally around `Wild Goose’
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) It's summer. It's hot. It's the South.
That must mean it's time for an old-fashioned camp meeting.
Next week (June 23-26), the bygone staple of the tent revival will be reincarnated on a bucolic North Carolina farm as The Wild Goose Festival. Nearly 10 years in the...
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`The Book of Mormon’ wins nine Tonys
(RNS) The irreverent and hilarious "The Book of Mormon" musical dominated the 65th annual Tony Awards on Sunday (June 12), winning the award for Best Musical and becoming one of the most honored productions in Broadway history.
Broadway neophytes Trey Parker and Matt Stone thanked...
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COMMENTARY: Lessons from Grand Rapids
(RNS) Film buffs must love the gone-viral video "Grand Rapids Lip Dub" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI).
Even if they don't resonate with the Michigan city's determination to live, they recognize what one reviewer called "the Holy Grail of cinema": an extended tracking sho...
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God at the root of Malick’s `Tree of Life’
LOS ANGELES (RNS) Terrence Malick's new film, "Tree of Life," is nearly indescribable. Not because its beauty or virtuosity are beyond words, although it has its moments.
"Tree of Life," which opens on Friday (May 27), is iconoclastic, its plot nonlinear, constructed by a series of im...
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