Paul Batura

Family-friendly films like "Lord of the Rings" consistently outperform modern movies, showing audiences prefer wholesome entertainment over darker fare.

Responding to a barrage of complaints from its loyal customers, Cracker Barrel announced Tuesday it was scrapping the restaurant’s rebranding campaign and returning to its classic logo.

In 1962, for nine children in Minnesota, it was a year that started with a terrible tragedy. But there was a triumph at the end of it, just before Christmas.

Rush Limbaugh signaled the beginning of the Yuletide season by playing Mannheim Steamroller Christmas selections in and out of breaks beginning the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

"The Official Walt Disney Quote Book" was compiled by the staff of the Walt Disney Archives – a division first established just four years after its founder’s death at the age of 65.

Hollywood is showing an increasing disregard and disinterest in nurturing the hearts and minds of children.

Lisa Marie Presley died on Thursday night. The daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley she was only 54 years old. She was also married to Michael Jackson and later Nicholas Cage.

It has been a year since actress Betty White died just weeks before she would have turned 100. Although she is gone, White's perspective on life is still a great guide to living well.

In a culture that seems to celebrate coarseness and crassness, Saget’s fatherly "Danny Tanner" role on "Full House" and his longtime gig hosting "America’s Funniest Home Videos" were decidedly and decisively G-rated.

Dick Hoyt, the "heart and soul" of the Boston Marathon died Wednesday at 80.

I met the legendary and revolutionary conservative talk show host in person just one time. But like millions of his listeners, we’ve spent the last 33 years together.

By the end of his eight years in office, America was roaring. He did it all with a smile, was graceful under fire and a gentleman in a profession that seems to reward rude aggression.

Larry King, who died Saturday at the age of 87, knew what he wanted to do with his life from a very early age.

Running from one year into the next may not be most people’s idea of holiday revelry, but since 1979 doing so has become an annual tradition for tens of thousands in New York City. Until now.

Dawn Wells, the actress who went on a fictional “three-hour tour” in 1964 and found lifelong fame as the bubbly girl-next-door Mary Ann Summers on the TV sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19

The Bible is the bestselling book in world history, with an estimated 5 billion to 6 billion printed in more than 700 languages. But how many Bibles are actually opened and read, and how many just gather dust on bookshelves, their contents hidden from us?

The charm of the hapless Charlie Brown and all the gang still resonates with young and old alike, especially at this time of year.

I’m sure my father knew our artificial tree was on life support that Christmas during my childhood...

Baseball’s loss was the music world’s gain when Charley Pride failed to make it from Negro League Baseball to Major League Baseball and took up music instead. On Saturday the world suffered the loss of the first Black superstar of country music when Pride died at 86.

It’s become glib and fashionable to lament the year 2020, suggesting that our current circumstances couldn’t get much worse. I’ve certainly been guilty of such narrow-minded thinking from time to time, but I’m actually thankful we’re living in 2020 and not 100 years ago.

Ever since Election Day, I’ve been wrestling with the spiritual question concerning the outcome. What role has the Almighty played in this year’s contentious election?

Poised and dignified with flashes of appropriate humor, he was the quintessential host, a gentleman who set the standards for all others.

Sunday is a day to honor the approximately 430,000 ministers, priests, rabbis, imams and clergy members with other titles who minister to our spiritual needs across the U.S.

Experts will tell you there’s no correlation between dyslexia and intelligence

The small, picturesque mountain town of Manitou Springs, Colo., was buzzing this past Sunday, its main street filled with hundreds of runners raring to make their 26.2-mile pilgrimage up and down Pikes Peak.

We can survive without a lot of things – but we thrive when we’re fully engaged and enjoying the thrills and joys all around us – including college football.

I’ve been convicted in my own life to take more risks.

If there was ever a time when good friends and strong bonds of personal affection were needed, it would be now.

“How many people have died from the coronavirus, Daddy?” Will asked, in a tone that seemed more curious than frightened.

Crumb cake’s origins harken back to Western Poland, but German bakers who immigrated to the U.S. get credit for the dessert’s rise in popularity, especially on the East Coast.