For anyone else like me who can’t seem to stop making fun of Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” (OK, so I’ve been obsessively blogging about it–first about the DVD review, again about a New York Times feature, and yes, still another time about Oprah’s endorsement), or is still truly mystified that so many people are buying…

Ever since James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” debacle, with Oprah tearing up the author for fabricating large swaths of his “memoir” (not long after praising him in a show devoted to his book), the whole genre has been under fire. When exactly does a memoir cross the line into fiction? Is all memoir fiction,…

Any Tolkien fan can tell you that J.R.R. Tolkien, a faithful Catholic, was pals with pop theologian C.S. Lewis, and that he laced his Lord of the Rings trilogy with Christian theology. What’s not always obvious, however, is how. What’s a hobbit got to do with the Messiah? The “new” Tolkien book, “The Children of…

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Beliefnet recently posted an interesting gallery on how its readers have credited the “law of attraction”–the idea that we create our reality with our thoughts, popularized by the controversial best-selling book and DVD, “The Secret”–as having worked miracles in their lives (ie: quitting smoking, getting money for college,…

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