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It’s no surprise that the soundtrack for “High School Musical 2” is at the top of the Billboard Top 200 chart this week, but what will no doubt cause a stir with at least some music industry execs is the album that debuted in the second slot–Casting Crowns’ new release “The Altar and the Door.”…

Officials at Nepal’s state-run airlines are certainly “thinking outside the box” when it comes to battling the plague of problems—late flights, older planes—affecting the airline industry. Or maybe we should say, thinking outside the pen. Reuters reports that Nepal Airlines “sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with…

The new book documenting Mother Teresa’s lifelong struggle with her faith is either a testimony to the power of belief or a fascinating portrait of self-denial. What is faith and how does it behave in the world? Here are my five favorite books by modern women on faith: 5. Here If You Need Me by…

Just in time for the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a beautiful new Christian documentary, “The Cross and the Towers,” has been released. The film tells the stories of a number of the rescue workers at the World Trade Center site, and how many found strength and inspiration in what some say was…

Though you may not have heard of the Christian rock band Transistor Radio, they just might be praying for you. According to the band’s Myspace page, the band loves to accept prayer requests and gathers every Thursday to “pray and practice.” They also offer their email address–in case you’d like them to pray for you…

More than 30 years after the song told us “If there’s a rock ‘n roll heaven, you know they have a hell of a band,” British scientists have ploughed through a half-century’s worth of statistics–and, no doubt, several thousand pounds in grant money–to prove it. Rockers are two to three times as likely to die…

When we began our Casting Crowns CD contest a couple of weeks ago–asking, “How do you stay on the Christian path?”–we expected a strong response, maybe 75 or 100 entries. “Strong” doesn’t begin to describe it, though: Nearly 800 of you took the time to post your answer to this question, and your responses were…

When I heard Elwood “Bunky” Bartlett, an accountant from Dundalk, MD, attributed his Mega Millions lottery win to Wiccan gods and goddesses, I thought, “Wow, what a way to legitimize Wicca!” I immediately had visions of dyed-in-the-wool conservative Christian lotto players mulling over the pagan pantheon, if even for a mere second. People who would…

This week’s New York Times Magazine features Rick Rubin, the new “co-head” of Columbia records, who is posed as … what exactly is portrayed on the magazine’s cover? A pseudo-Jesus figure with his long beard and eyes closed in contemplation? Or perhaps just a man asleep under what looks to be a picnic blanket more…

Some Britons may have come to regret their queen-bashing, flower-tossing, and mile-long queues to sign her “Book of Remembrance,” but for many, Peter Singer points out in a recent column, Diana has become something akin to a saint. “Some had a ‘Diana room’ in their homes, filled with memorabilia of the princess,” he writes of…
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