Contributor: Paul Asay

Let me make a confession: I kinda like media and technology. I work with it, I play with it, I write about it for a living. We live in an amazing time, filled with gadgets and entertainment options inconceivable when I was a little boy. A decade ago, t …

Camp Rock 2 is exactly what you’d expect it to be: It’s the sequel to Camp Rock. It showcases the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. And it’s all about friends, fun … and a bit of puppy love.

Salt couldn’t do it. Dinner With Schmucks couldn’t do it. But, after three weeks on top of the box office, a couple of Other Guys finally managed to knock off Christopher Nolan’s thriller Inception. The Other Guys, a Will Ferrell-helmed send-up of thos …

So is Anne Rice a Christian or not? The novelist—author of Interview With the Vampire and other supernatural bestsellers—says she’s not. Though Rice made a very public return to faith a few years ago, ditching her vampire trope in favor of some imagina …

Inception has been, for the folks over at Warner Bros., a dream of a movie. For the third straight week, the Christopher Nolan/Leonardo DiCaprio thriller thumped the competition at the box office, claiming the top spot with $27.5 million. Steve Carell’ …

Arcade Fire invites listeners to take a stroll through The Suburbs. But by their own admission, the neighborhood isn’t precisely safe.

His nightly games of catch with his dead brother have turned Zac Efron into that “weird St. Cloud kid.” But Tess doesn’t seem to mind. Nor will throngs of Zac zealots.

So, oil’s still washing up on the gulf, the economy’s in the doldrums, the honey bees are dying and my favorite baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, have lost nine of their last 11 games. Naturally, my thoughts turn to zombies. I’m only half kidding. Z …

So, between some reading of Augustine and G.K. Chesterton, I’ve been perusing a book from another Christian sage: Jonathan Acuff, best known for his blog Stuff Christians Like. Acuff’s book, also called Stuff Christians Like, is a funny, irreverent loo …

Angelina Jolie peppers people with gunfire in this savory spy thriller. But will it raise your blood pressure?

Superheroes were kind of a sensitive subject around my house when I was growing up. My best friend and I loved ’em, and whenever he was over, we’d stuff socks in our shirtsleeves (to make our muscles look bigger) throw some bath towels around our necks …

The brothers are back with a (sort of) new TV show and a (for sure) new album to support it—but they’re still making the same frothy, family-friendly music that made them stars in the first place.

It was a dream of a weekend for Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan. Their project Inception, in which a team of thought-thieves pilfer corporate secrets from their targets’ dreams, REM’ed its way to a $60.4 million box-office victory. No …

Bruno Mars hits No. 1 with a ballad sure to be played at homecoming dances everywhere. But what else might he have ready by prom?

Are teens rejecting faith for Facebook? The folks over at the Barna Group suggest that something like that may be happening. Barna has been studying the intersection of Christianity and culture for years now. And while the researchers say that faith is …