[FILM]
• Wooing the arts, by Steve Beard (Thunderstruck)
• The naked truth about flesh in films Who strips? Who won't? Who wishes they hadn't? (CNN)
• Movies aren't for proselytizing: An interview with Linda Seeger, (Ethics Daily)
• A review of Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman, by Terry Teachout (National Review)
• God, man, hobbits & Tolkien, by Terry Mattingly (Scripps Howard)
• Indie filmaker Darren Doane, by Chris Finke (Real Magazine)
• Hollywood takes ax to religion, by Michael Medved (USA Today)
• Star Wars: The Gen-X Woodstock, by Christine Seghers

[TV] • Flowers in the Wasteland: No wasteland is completely without beauty, and pop culture is no exception, By Roberto Rivera
• Simpson's character celebrated at Christian festival (CBC)
• How Ned Flanders became a role model (BBC)
• Religion plugs into TV: Writers reach into popular culture to illustrate lessons in spirituality (Detroit Free Press)
• Minister uses 'Sopranos' to teach morals (Modesto Bee)
• Christians look to Saint Simpsons (FOX)

[ART] • The healing power of beauty, by Jo Kadlecek
• God's little paintings: A coversation with Kika Garces about art and life (Passageway)
• Oh Brother, who art thou? The life of the late Howard Finster, by Frederica Mathewes-Green
• Finster: hick, hip, and holy, by Terry Mattingly (Scripps Howard)
• Outside In: Howard Finster's apocalyptic art, by Greg Cootsona (re:generation quarterly)
• Howard Finster
• Howard Finster Collection at the House of Blues
• Painterly sermons mix severe and sensual (New York Times)
• Cory M. Isom @ Sprockett Design

[SPORTS] • Papa Wheelie: Tony Alvarez (Passageway)
• May the board, er, Lord be with you: The first Surfers Bible hits the bookstores in Australia (Sydney Morning Herald); BBC story
• X Games, no longer bad, go suburban, (USA Today)
• Cutting-edge sports trace roots back to 1970s (USA Today)
• Extreme faith: Skateboarders spread the Word, by Steve Lawson (Charisma)
• Sponsors get gnarly idea: Surf sells, dude (USA Today)
• Struggling to succed: Rich Gannon, faith and football (Passageway)
• Skateboard ministries drawing young to church (Jacksonville Times-Union)
• Surfering for Jesus, by Steven Lawson (Charisma)
• Jesus Christ, personal friend to surfers, by Cintra Wilson (Salon)
• The surfing rabbi, by Denise Dowling (Salon)
• Walking on Water surf ministries
• Skateboards offer intriguing plane for eight artists (Seattle Times)
• Christian Surfers
• Surf Missions International
• 777 Skateboards
• Zoo Ministries
• Grock
• Manna Skateboards
• Mission Skateboards
• Prayer at the ballpark (Fox News)
• Christian fest hopes to skate into teens' lives (Seattle Times)

[BODY ART] • Tattoo or Not Tattoo? Excursions in "tattoo culture," by Lauren F. Winner (Christianity Today)
• Tattoos no longer taboo? (Christianity Today)
• Tattoo History Source Book: Jews and Christians
• Religious tattoos website
• Marked by God: Experiencing divine connection through skin art, by David Hopkins and Melissa Cassidy (Next Wave)
• Evangelicals' tattoos show faith (South Bend Tribune)
• Some believers see religious tattoos as a sign of Christianity in the flesh (Holland Sentinel)
• It's a Bod Mod Cyberworld by Andrew Careaga (NextWave)
• A network of tattoo parlors specializing in Christian imagery is making its mark, by Elaine Gale (Los Angeles Times)
• Tattoo History: Jews and Christians
• Some evangelical Christians expressing their faith through tattoos (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
• Move over WWJD braclets: Christian tattoos (Maranatha Christian Journal)
• His love for Jesus more than skin deep (Cincinnatti Post)
• Tattoo You, Tattoo Me: An experience in body art, by Jon Trott (Cornerstone)

[WORDS] • Why you should read C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle (Passageway)
• Nature and Grace in Mitford: The Christian novels that became a mainstream hit, by Gina Dalfonzo (BreakPoint)
• The Tattooed Christ: "Parker's Back" and the Christian Humanism of Flannery O'Connor, By Vigen Guroian (Breakpoint)
• The Christian Humanism Of G. K. Chesterton Truth and the Paradoxical Imagination, By Vigen Guroian (Breakpoint)
• George MacDonald and his unique art (Breakpoint)
• The unlikely evangelist: Dorothy L. Sayers, by Gina R. Dalfonzo (Boundless)
• Voice of a decade: The writing of Douglas Coupland, by J.A. Hanson (Breakpoint)
• A great C.S. Lews website
• Anne Lamott's subversive faith, by Eva Stimson (Prebyterians Today)

[FOOD] • In-N-Out Burgers
• Top Secret Recipes version of In-N-Out® Double-Double®*
• In-N-Out Secret Codes
• More tasty tips
• The world's greatest hamburger
• Yumfood's In-N-Out tribute
• Family value meal
• Quality you can taste
• Matsumoto Shave Ice
• Krispy Kreme profits exceeds expectations (Fox News)
• Would you pay $2 million for a Krispy Kreme franchise? (Fortune Small Business)

[OTHER] • Ambiguous Liturgy: Rock music as religious experience, by Tom Beaudoin (Books & Culture)
• Churches put twist on yoga (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
• Christians who drink beer: Looking for God in pop culture, by William D. Romanowski (Antithesis)
• The Scent of God: Our senses are important stepping stones on the path to God and Paradise, by Vigen Guroian (Breakpoint)
• Young ministers launch "Christian porn site" (Charisma)
• Three (more) romantic errors, by Sarah E. Hinlicky (Boundless)
• Prof gives a hand, not a handout: Modestneeds.org helps hardworking folks in a bind, by Nanci Hellmich (USA Today)
• A new book for the hipsters (Orange County Register)
• Near naked and not complaining: The history of swimsuit issues (ESPN)
• 'I'm just reading the articles, honey': How to read swimsuit issues (ESPN)
• Other magazines that peddle swimsuit issues (ESPN)
• Shake, shimmy and sweat The art of belly dance is booming as a form of fitness (Orange County Register)
• Dennis Miller speaks his mind (Wall Street Journal)
• Not-so-straight shooter: Marvel Comics’ Rawhide Kid comes out if you know what I mean (ABC)
• Doodads of faith: Can religious kitch help (Orange County Register)
• Birkenstock sticks toe in future with an eye to past (USA Today)
• Shred Chaplain: Snowboarder Brad Lartigue follows the call (Passageway)
• Birkenstocked Burkeans: Confessions of a granola conservative, by Rod Dreher (National Review)
• Primal time: Discovery's Monster Garage isn't for 'wimps (USA Today)
• Is the Playboy Bunny losing its bounce (Orange County Register)
• America rocks: Thanksgiving wishes, by Ted Nugent (Wall Street Journal)
• Holy strollers: Winged Victoria's Secret models topped off the night's church motif--harps, choirs, crucifixes, a Destiny's Child Christmas number, and, oh yeah, g-strings (Slate)
• Bounce that ride: "Low rider" culture in Southern California (LA Weekly)
• An exhibition in Paris offers a fascinating overview of how photographers have addressed Jesus' place in Western civilization. (New York Times)
• The Cultural Icon Series: The Hamburger (NPR)
• The Cultural Icon Series: The Surfboard (NPR)
• The Cultural Icon Series: The Electric Guitar (NPR)
• Christian cyclists take to the road (The Miami Herald)
• Stand up for Jesus: Christian performers broaden the borders of comedy (Christianity Today)
• Herbie Goes Bananas: The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of the VW Beetle (Books & Culture)
• Wooing the arts, by Steve Beard (Thunderstruck)
• Move over Gidget, here comes 'Blue Crush' (USA Today)
• Riding the perfect wave into a Hawaii sunset (New York Times)
• Shagadelic: Josh Agle—aka Shag—is Orange County's hippest painter (OC Weekly)
• Catching a surfing cultural wave: Just don't try to define it (New York Times)
• Students for a Democratic Society: A new generation of campus activists support American ideals (Wall Street Journal)
• Children of a Conservative God: The Bundys and us (National Review)
• The mind of a world-maker: A Cornerstone interview with Rand Miller
• Hippies hang on to their counter-cultural groove (ABC News)
• Bikers extoll Christian message (Braedenton Herald)
• As seen on TV ads: Marriage is cool again, by Karen S. Peterson (USA Today)
• Two pastors at a porn show, by Mike Foster (Relevant)
• The kids are alright: 'Social norming' may be the strategy to keep them that way, by Karen Thomas (USA Today)
• Naming them was easy: As Same-Sex Households Raise Children, Parents Ponder What Kids Will Call Them, by Barbara E. Martinez (Washington Post)
• Lewis vs. Freud: On God, love, sex, etc., by Gina R. DalFonzo (Boundless)
• A home of one's own with help from the church (Christian Science Monitor)
• Virgins, Inc.: Inside the government's abstinence program (Rolling Stone)

"I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet."
--G.K. Chesterton

"It was very hard to get it [Walk to Remember] made at Warner Brothers because there's kind of a prejudice against religious--not just Christian, but any religious--characters being portrayed in movies. They're usually very stereotypical extremists or hypocrites, or fundamentalists or whatever. It was tough, but I showed them there's a huge audience out there of Christian teenagers."
--Denise Di Novi
Producer of "Walk to Remember"
Crosswalk

"My friends in missionary school didn't think I could concentrate on the Bible. They felt I was too artistic, and they encouraged me to go for art rather than be a minister."
--Director John Woo
Director of "Windtalkers"
Chicago Tribune

"In high school, I already wanted to learn to make movies, but my first dream was to be a minister, because I got so much help from the church. But when I approached the missionary school, they didn't accept me because they found I was too artistic."
--John Woo
The New York Times

"I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God."
--Anne Lamott
Author of "Traveling Mercies"

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