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No sex, but please pass the violence: Americans and Game of Thrones

What does “Game of Thrones” really say about us, Christian or not? I think it spotlights our national double standard – depictions of violence are okay; depictions of sex are inevitably corrupting.
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Can a Christian watch ‘Game of Thrones’?

| Jun 5, 2013

(RNS) Is there anything morally redeeming about “Game of Thrones”? Does the hit HBO series even have a moral vision?
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Cancer diagnosis gives second life to Carman’s music career

| Jun 1, 2013

(RNS) Once one of the biggest names in Christian music, Carman had been rejected by every Christian music label in the last 12 or 13 years. It was only after he went public about his terminal illness that the 57-year-old singer-songwriter discovered he still had an audience.
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What (not?) to wear – faith and fashion

| May 12, 2013

Religious apparel – or any respectful, dignified form of dress for religious settings – isn’t about setting someone apart as better or special, and it isn’t about a “God approved wardrobe.”
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Interfaith dialogue and deepening faith: Q-and-A with author Brian McLaren

| May 6, 2013

Is it possible to be strong in one’s faith while maintaining tolerance for the faiths of others? Author, theologian and speaker Brian McLaren feels that this is not only possible, but is a highly important practice in interacting with and relating to others in a globalized, modern world. He spoke in Columbia on Sunday, and reporter Ariel Morrison caught up with him one-on-one.
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For Hollywood couple, “The Bible” miniseries is a ‘labor of love’

| Feb 28, 2013

LOS ANGELES (RNS) Roma Downey and Mark Burnett met in a nail salon in what she says was love at first sight. But the high-powered Hollywood couple say their most important project isn’t her work on ”Touched by an Angel” or his role on ”Survivor” but their joint History Channel multi-part documentary on “The Bible.” 
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Phone shopping frustrations and the beauty of variety

| Feb 21, 2013

The variety available to us in our consumer society is mind-boggling, and even frustrating. But there's one kind of variety that is admirable, and that is diversity among people. 
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The gospel roots of the ‘Godmother of rock ‘n’ roll’

| Feb 20, 2013

Before Elvis and Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash. Before Aretha and Whitney and Beyonce. Before the blues met gospel and conceived rock ‘n’ roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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COMMENTARY: Gospel lessons from ‘Downton Abbey’

| Feb 20, 2013

More than good television? The popular British show Downton Abbey might have a few spiritual lessons.
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Is God the missing character in ‘Downton Abbey’?

| Feb 15, 2013

The third season of the megahit PBS series "Downton Abbey" wraps up on Sunday, capping another must-see run of ruin and redemption at Lord Grantham's stately English manor. Yet some are still left puzzled over the absence of what should be a leading Upstairs player in this colorful cast: God.
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Super Bowl commercials get supernatural with farmers, miracle stains and the devil

| Feb 4, 2013

Colin Kaepernick brought religion to the game, but advertisers brought religion to the commercials in between. Here are a few we noticed. 
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