Noah, machine gun preachers, religious cops, golfers finding their faith — good family movies with solid plots, beautiful cinematography and A-list stars are shaking Hollywood to its violent, filthy, perverse core — but the studios don’t care as long as it makes lots of money. “In many quarters, Hollywood has long been regarded as an essentially godless place. But…

Hoping a spot in Guinness Book of World Records, 1,482 singers from more than 40 churches gathered on the lawn of Bridgeton, N.J.’s city hall annex Saturday afternoon and sang “Amazing Grace” in four-part harmony. They followed it with “How Great Is Our God” and “Jesus, I Love You.” But they weren’t just yearning for a spot in the…

Northern Ireland farmer Alan Graham says he’d never heard of pop star Rihanna, but she was dressed too inappropriately to use his barley field, so he made her film crew pack up and leave. He did take time to counsel her to get right with the Almighty. “It was an encounter the global superstar probably wasn’t expecting as the…

She’s a Harvard-graduated Wall Street banker, but her true delight is singing Gospel. Carla A. Harris used to slip away from Morgan Stanley to perform Harlem’s Apollo Theater amateur night, writes Kevin Roose for the New York Times. She is one of the most senior African-American female executives on Wall Street. She also sings in two choirs, has released three…

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