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As part of this year’s celebration of Queen’s 40th anniversary, Queen drummer/songwriter/singer Roger Taylor is launching an American talent search to offer musicians the opportunity to star in the Queen Extravaganza Live Tour, scheduled to hit the road in 2012. And Downhere lead vocalist Marc Martel is auditioning for … well, lead vocalist. It takes a lot to compare yourself to Freddie Mercury, but fortunately, Martel is up to the comparison. He’s got one of the best and most unique voices... Read Full Story

As the World Trade Center cross makes the news again in recent weeks -- atheists suing to keep it from being displayed at the memorial, and a NY lawmaker wanting it to be called a national monument -- it's a good time to revisit a 2006 documentary that tells the story of that cross. The Cross and the Towers , winner of a Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival, looks back at 9/11 and the ensuing days through the eyes of seven people, several of whom were on the scene and... Read Full Story

This post is written by Mark Mooring of Christianity Today: Every Wednesday night during the school year, I join other adults to meet with high school students to study the Bible. According to the new documentary Divided , now showing for free online, this practice is unbiblical, worldly, and dangerous to families—not to mention an extension of evolution and paganism. From my 12 years as a volunteer youth worker, I know that just as churches are flawed, so are youth ministries. We’ve made... Read Full Story

Coming to theaters next month, Machine Gun Preacher is a movie that will appeal to some Christians because of its subject matter. It will also turn off some Christians . . . because of its subject matter. The movie, opening in limited release on September 23, is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a drug-dealing hell raiser as a teen and young man who began to turn his life around after finding Jesus. Today, he spends much of his time in Sudan and neighboring countries, allegedly... Read Full Story

Adam Young, best known as the pop sensation Owl City, was up late Sunday night recording a cover of the modern hymn, "In Christ Alone," by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. On his blog , Young said it wasn't for any particular album or project: "Not for anything special, just for fun." "Something about this song makes me bawl like a baby," Young wrote. "If I were to count on one hand, the number of songs that have ever deeply moved me, this one would take the cake. Last night I probably spent... Read Full Story

The oft-buzzed about (and tentatively titled) Songs of Ascent , reportedly U2' s most directly worshipful album yet, is apparently on the fast track, says their manager. "I would expect a new U2 album sooner than anybody thinks," Paul McGuinness told the Irish Times . "I would guess early 2011 before the next leg of the American tour which starts in May." The Irish Times reported that McGuinness says the album will likely include "Mercy" and "Every Breaking Wave," which the band has been... Read Full Story

In many states, all a husband or wife has to do to end their partnership is state to the court that there are "irreconcilable differences" in their relationship and the court will grant the divorce. But, in any marriage, there should be passionate differences. The best way to save you marriage is to embrace the differences that are inherent in a close partnership between two people. We often think of couples divorcing as the ones who yelled at each other all of the time. But if these couples... Read Full Story

A dental implant is an artificial tooth fastened to a titanium post that is inserted into the exposed bone of the jaw. Over time the titanium bonds with the jawbone and becomes very secure. Dental implants most closely resemble a persons actual teeth. The background of dental implants dates back as far as the Mayan civilization. While excavating Mayan burial sites in Honduras, archaeologists identified the fragment of the jawbone dating 680 AD. It was from a woman at approximately age 20... Read Full Story

Anna Broadway, a guest blogger at Her.meneutics , CT' s women's blog, explains why she won't boycott Mel Gibson's movies despite the recent spate of scandals and less-than-flattering news about the actor/director -- the creator behind The Passion of The Christ . "Gibson’s rant is not the main issue here," Broadway writes. "The issue is, what do our opinions of him and those like him — and our decisions of whether to support or shun them — say about our beliefs about humanity? If it were the... Read Full Story

Cobb – Leonardo DiCaprio Saito – Ken Watanabe Arthur – Joseph Gordon-Levitt Mal – Marion Cotillard Ariadne – Ellen Page Eames – Tom Hardy Robert Fischer Jr. – Cillian Murphy Browning – Tom Berenger Miles – Michael Caine Yusuf – Dileep Rao Maurice Fischer – Pete Postlethwaite If movies are shared dreams, then Christopher Nolan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inventive dreamers, given the evidence of his commandingly clever “Inception.” Applying a vivid sense of procedural detail... Read Full Story