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| Editor's Note | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| God and Popular Music | |
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| U2 Bedevils the Modern Church | |
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| At the Crossroads | |
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| Do the Math | |
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| The Rock for Life Pledge | |
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| Elvis: A Prodigal Son? | |
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| Rich Mullins: Enigmatic, Restless, Catholic | |
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| Songs for Souls in Hard Times | |
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| Bleeping Baptists Pray for Bleeping Ozzy | |
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| Worship for Sale, Worship for Sale | |
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| The Testimony of Johnny Cash | |
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| Bono's Crusade on the Road | |
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| Big Ideas on the Big Screen | |
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| "The Passion" of Old Words and Symbols | |
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| "Titanic": The Sixties as Sacraments | |
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| Signals from Hollywood Heaven | |
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| Duvall on Sweat, Sin and the South | |
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| The Late Great Planet Hollywood | |
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| A Hail Mary for Hollywood | |
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| Should a Christian Do a Nude Scene? | |
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| Mission? Filling In Some "Holes" | |
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| A Chick Flick to Remember | |
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| Hollywood After "The Passion" | |
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| Not a "Rookie" Faith | |
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| "The Passion" and the Talmud | |
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| Beyond the Baptist Boycott | |
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| God on TV | |
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| Beyond "Becky Goes to Bible Camp" | |
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| God, Man and "The Simpsons" | |
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| Freud Meets Lewis on PBS | |
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| The Very Rev. Ted Turner Speaks | |
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| Oprah, "Babe" and Religious Liberty | |
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| Jim Bakker's Other Conspiracy | |
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| Carl Sagan: Televangelist | |
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| Veggies Attack the Funny Gap | |
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| Home-Schoolers: The Anti-Woodstock Generation | |
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| Vanilla Values on the D.C. Mall | |
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| Ink, Paper and God | |
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| Walking With C.S. Lewis | |
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| Harry Potter and Free Will | |
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| John Grisham's Pulpit | |
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| Comic-Book Visionaries | |
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| Reading the Sporting Jews | |
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| Romeo and Juliet, Born Again | |
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| J.K. Rowling: Inkling? | |
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| Yes, There Is a Mitford | |
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| All Those "Left Behind" Catholics | |
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| Chaim Potok and Storytelling | |
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| Harry Potter for Grown-up Believers | |
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| The Gospel According to "The Gospel According to..." Books | |
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| Flights of Filmed Fantasy | |
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| George Lucas, the Force and God | |
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| God, Man, Hobbits and J.R.R. Tolkien | |
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| "Star Wars": The Only Parable in Town | |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien, Sin and Creation | |
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| God-Talk After "The Matrix": Pop Gnostics | |
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| God-Talk After "The Matrix": Theology for Sale | |
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| Trust Your Feelings, Darth? | |
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| Vague Faith in Middle Earth | |
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| "Constantine": And All the People Said, "Whoa" | |
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| "The Matrix": The Apocalypse | |
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| The Visions of Tolkien and Jackson | |
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| Star Culture Wars | |
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| Pop Media, Real Life | |
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| Looking for a New God, a Fresh Creed? | |
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| Faith Popcorn's Spiritual Cocktails | |
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| A Brand Name for Your Soul | |
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| Bobos "R" Us | |
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| Lent: Fasting From Television | |
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| Catholic College Culture Wars | |
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| Praying With the Digital Natives | |
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| Just Another Sunday at Saddleback | |
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| Mysterious Echoes of Gunshots | |
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| Intolerant Christians in the Public Square | |
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| Worship Wars in the Pews | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |