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...peace that sisters have is so amazing," Johnson says of her interest in religious life. "Certainly you can find that joy and peace by having a family, but not on a continual and everyday basis. These women receive so much happiness by giving up everything to follow Christ...
...language that young people speak. Convents conduct e-mail correspondence with interested women, blogs written by sisters give a peek into the habited life and websites offer online personality questionnaires to test vocations. One site, Vocation-network.org frames the choice much like a dating service, with Christ as the ultimate match. "For a long time, we neglected to invite people to see what we are about," says Sister Doris Gottemoeller of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of America, a national order. "I think we're more ready to do that...
...driven retelling of Mary and Joseph's trip to Bethlehem, was rushed into production by New Line Cinema and entrusted to an edgy director with a knack for youth culture, Thirteen's Catherine Hardwicke. Despite the challenges of reconciling Scripture with story, casting actors to play icons, constructing a Christ-era Nazareth in the Italian countryside, wrangling donkeys and camels, and figuring out how to market the first major-studio Bible epic since the genre's peak in the 1950s and '60s with films like The Ten Commandments, The Nativity Story will arrive in theaters on Dec. 1, just about...
...Gibson's hand is on the movie too. It was the success of Gibson's 2004 Crucifixion film, The Passion of the Christ--which no studio wanted to touch and which earned $1 billion in worldwide box-office and DVD sales when the director funded it himself--that made believers out of Hollywood executives and ushered in a flurry of faith-based filmmaking. "I could kiss Mel on both cheeks for showing Hollywood the size of this market," says Matt Crouch, son of televangelists Paul and Jean Crouch and producer of One Night with the King, the story of Esther...
...There are still foreign-language hits - the martial-arts romance Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the oh-really-it-was-French? documentary March of the Penguins, the all-Aramaic Passion of the Christ. But those are flukes. Almost no foreign films make so much as $10 million in U.S. theaters. Ask most Americans about foreign films and they'll say they don't go to the movies to read. (These are the same people addicted to the running ribbons of copy on the news channels and the glut of statistics flashed on the screen during sports events.) In a way, foreign...