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A new law bill is aiming to make the Bible the official book for the Rocky Top state—Tennessee.

In my new book, Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World, I spend quite a bit of time debunking the lies that come to our teens because of our technology-saturated culture. But even within this technological world, I thought it would be helpful to focus on some truths about our teens. I offer three essential insights that help us understand teens’ beliefs, motivations, choices and behaviors.

As Dan Florian, owner/developer at Ebry Dobby watched the movie Noah, he couldn’t believe how blasphemous it was. In fact, Noah’s (the movie) director, Darren Aronofsk told the New Yorker that his movie is “the least-biblical biblical film ever made.”

All the preaching, teaching, music and entertainment beamed by Christian TV and radio is primarily consumed by evangelicals and weekly churchgoers—the folks most often found in the pews. Meanwhile, 2 in 3 Americans are tuned out, a new survey finds.

Bob Garner, a well-known Disney producer and director who has worked withStar Wars creator George Lucas and actress Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music), is producing a “behind the scenes” mini-documentary for With Lee In Virginia, a family-friendly Christian audio drama CD that is set during the Civil War and will be released this summer.

The 6.5 million people in the greater Houston area now surpass New York City and Los Angeles as the most racially and ethnically diverse urban area in the U.S. That’s the site where a broad spectrum of U.S. church leaders met this week to consider the impact of immigration on their congregations, and on the rapidly changing expressions of Christianity within North American culture.