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...cinema the next frontier of evangelism? It can be. The Gospel is not about standing and saying "Come to me." It's about going where they are, and the world is at the theater...
...headed for a mission more challenging than mere CIA work: His task is to last 15 weeks proving himself in NBC’s “The Apprentice,” a gold-gilded world dominated by Donald “The Donald” Trump and the gospel of greed...
Parents who want the Gospel without the gore can try The Animated Passion, with seven sing-along hymns, a blue-eyed Jesus enduring most of his pain off-camera, and a stodgy illustrative style. The less pious will turn to a South Park DVD, The Passion of the Jew, with Cartman as a neo--Hitler youth and Gibson as a raving loony. It's funny-angry, but for the gang's sturdiest liturgical statement, go to Season 4's Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? and its sequel, Probably. --By Richard Corliss
Fans of the Man in Black know he was also a man of faith: JOHNNY CASH recorded gospel tunes and hung out with the Rev. Billy Graham. But a new book reveals that the country crooner was even more devout than his public knew. Cash was ordained a minister in 1977, according to The Man Called Cash by Steve Turner, due next month. Disenchanted with organized churches, Cash, pictured here being baptized in the river Jordan in 1979, studied theology so that he could conduct services, weddings and baptisms for friends. In the book, a professor who graded Cash...
They are now men of a certain age, and it no longer becomes them to aspire to be things they are not. So there's no crunk-style rapping on the new U2 album, no gospel choirs or techno experiments, nothing that could possibly be misinterpreted as a sign of midlife crisis. Instead, this as-yet-untitled album is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes, Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work, although Bono has lost a touch of the high clarity...