Jessica Simpson wants to get back in touch with her spiritual side, and has decided that studying theology at college could be the way to do it.

The pop star turned country music flop said that television – and not her former minister father, Papa Joe – inspired her to pursue religion as a future career.

“I’ve been contemplating taking a college course in religion,” the Dukes of Hazzard star told Marie Claire. “I love religion.

“I remember whenever the book ‘The Da Vinci Code’ came out, the Discovery Channel did this three-night piece on it that I TiVoed and then watched eight times.”

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Actress Lindsay Lohan is converting to judaism.

The Mean Girls star is reportedly keen to convert to the Jewish religion after learning about it from girlfriend Samantha Ronson’s family. The Ronson family are all Jewish, and very supportive on Lindsay’s decision to change from her childhood Catholic faith.

Her father, born-again Christian Michael Lohan, who raised her as a Catholic, is happy with her decision.

“As long as she believes in God,” he said.

But Mr. Lohan is skeptical that LiLo will stick with the conversion.

“She’s exploring right now,” he explained. “She’s explored the Church of Scientology, she tried Kabbalah, and now this. I think it’s just another phase. But either way, she’s involving God in her life, and I’m happy about that.”

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Anonymous, the anti-Scientology group made up of former Scientologists and others against the ‘religion’, are planning another round of global protests on July 12, under the title of “Spy vs. Sci”.

This time they are focussing their attention on the Office of Special Affairs (OSA).

“Why does something that describes itself as a religion need an intelligence agency that aggressively persecutes critics?”

The OSA controls the administering of justice and punishment to members of the church, whose most famous members are Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

“Most Scientologists are unaware of the functions of the OSA and accept what their leaders tell them about it,” says the release. “However, there is a growing body of evidence that OSA agents operate to attack perceived enemies by using infiltration, bribery, burglary and blackmail, in addition to threats, intimidation, assaults and worse.”

Protesters at the Spy vs. Sci demonstration will don costumes of characters like Austin Powers, James Bond and Modesty Blaise.