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Can religion help you get out of soul-crushing debt? Somebody say AMEN! When DeForest Soaries Jr. was in his twenties, he went to work in his father's church. A committed social activist, he told the elder Pastor Soaries "Let's cut a deal: You get people to heaven, and I'll do the earth piece."

A new documentary raises an interesting question: is excessive debt a new kind of slavery? DailyFinance talks to CNN's Soledad O'Brien, who examines the issue in the context of a black church in New Jersey that is aiming to free its members from debt.

CNN host Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned amid a prostitution scandal, was rejected for membership at the Harvard Club in New York City. The club rarely turns down qualified candidates, and Spitzer is a Harvard Law School graduate.

MSNBC management is thinking about changing the name of its website, according to The New York Times, to better distinguish it from its more liberal cable network.

CNN says it's confident about its newest show, starring Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, but there's reason to think the network is already quietly lining up the fire trucks next to the runway in expectation of a flameout.

CNN's great 8PM hope, Parker Spitzer, garnered lackluster ratings in its debut Monday night, trailing Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN's own sister network HLN. Television critics, meanwhile, savaged the program.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is set to get his own syndicated daytime talk show, a program that will address "social issues, trends and events, pop culture and celebrity, human interest stories and populist news," whatever that means.

CNN is sick of being the punching bag of the cable news world. Explaining why the network replaced the head of CNN U.S., CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton cited what he described as unfair press coverage focusing on CNN's declining ratings, while ignoring its growing profitability.

CNN president Jonathan Klein has been hard at work this year remaking the network's primetime lineup, its most important programming block. But whether or not his effort proves successful, he won't be around to find out.

The British newspaper journalist and TV personality will take over in 2011 from King, who was originally set to retire this fall. Morgan is already known to U.S. viewers of America's Got Talent, the British show's spin-off.