Sharon Linnéa

Beliefnet is the largest multifaith website online today. It is an independent site that is not sponsored by any one religion or creed, but respects a wide range of different faiths. It has been nominated for an American Magazine Award for Best Website, and has won the Webby Award for best Spirituality site.

It is most of all a place for people of all faiths to come together to talk and understand each other. It is also the place to go for the very best coverage of the religious news that is shaping our world.

Earlier this year, Beliefnet asked if they could hire me as their new "Family Film Reviewer." They said there seemed to be two camps of family film reviews on the web: those that liked anything rated G or appropriately religious; and those that didn't take kids' movies seriously at all. They wanted something in between. At the time, they didn't even realize I had a minor in Film History from NYU...they just knew I saw lots of kid movies and had plenty of wise and salient (okay, make that searing and wiseacre) opinions!

So I took the job, and found I finally had a gig that impressed the kids. I began dragging them and their friends along to screenings and movies, and, we've had a top-notch time of it. My reviews have even been quoted in Time Magazine, which means...well, that they've been quoted in Time Magazine.

I feel my place on the web is to be that educated friend who has seen the film you're wondering about and can chat with you in a way that will help you decide whether you would like to see the movie and bring the family. Please feel free to weigh in with your own opinions!

I thought I knew New Yorkers, my neighbors, and God...and then it was Tuesday, 9/11, and everything changed.

Barb Sherer, an Army chaplain currently deployed in Kuwait, tells the unexpected story of what she learned about war from an extraordinary Somali woman.

A story I ghostwrote for dear friend Tom Veres, who was with Raoul Wallenberg when he saved over 100,000 Jews from the SS in Budapest at the end of World War II. Tom died in the summer of 2002, but the courage he showed has impacted me deeply. Read this and you'll see why.

How a lonely, abused little girl had her life changed forever.

Just how did nearly-identical descriptions and stories of angels turn up in so many cultures?

The true story of Donna and W.C. Martin of Possum Trot, Texas, who have inspired their community to adopt more than 70 nearly-impossible-to-place children. Includes a photo album of the kids.

The unbelievable true story of two Iowa housewives who ended up saving hundreds of Vietnamese orphans during the fall of Saigon.

New studies show that gamers have much greater hand-eye coordination skills. But are there downsides to playing "M" rated (very violent) games?

The causes of and cures for this "international epidemic."

Surprising news about religious people and death, violent good guys, and those inspirational sayings!

Intriguing studies
on marriage,
health in a bad economy,
your political opponents
and fulfilling old age.

Heckhausen & Wrosch's findings on how to handle the "might have beens" in your life.

Jon Haidt's groundbreaking study on the "new emotion" of elevation