Oh Stephenie Meyer, you’ve started two trends with Twilight: the vampire and the werewolf! Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black is perhaps the most famous movie werewolf at this point, but he’s one in a long line of other incarnations over the last few decades. To honor the fabulous actor Benicio Del Toro’s newest werewolf to…

Well the Super Bowl has a life of its own and it keeps on living after the game! This weeks web is full of debriefs of the day, from the unlikelihood of the Saints’ victory to the most watched advertisement in television history to Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian’s post-game plans to, well just about…

Who doesn’t love wine made in a monastery? What better than a group of monks who make their living through a winery? Kind of like Holy Drinking Water, blessed by priests in CA, and sold in convenience stores on the west coast, it’s always fun to discover a new Catholic beverage, especially when it’s alcoholic.…

When I’m not blogging on religion and pop culture for Idol Chatter, my academic research centers on faith and youth, so when pop culture enters the picture in that realm, I pay attention. That’s why I’m excited to read “The Church of Facebook: How the Wireless Generation is Redefining Community” by Jesse Rice. The title…

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