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We teach children a lot of things. Most go in one ear and out the other. After all, when you’re 6 years old, it’s hard

There are lots of folks who’d say there really is no such thing as an original story, and that all of our books and movies

Last weekend I attended our church’s annual Christmas extravaganza. There was a bit of everything, from Handel to jazz, Michael W. Smith to Wagner (if

With 550 million members and counting, Facebook has enough people to be the world’s third largest country. And if you doubt the site’s influence over

Recently a number of websites were buzzing about a report that director/producer George Lucas (of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame) was buying up the

For more than 20 years, my father had osteoarthritis in both hips. It slowed him down, caused constant pain and frustrated him greatly—you could tell

The cinematic waters proved to be a little choppy for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader this weekend. While King Caspian’s

I’ve been doing a lot of coloring lately. With my 4-year-old son, Henry, that is. A couple months ago, I discovered that there are coloring-book-style

Last fall, I scribbled a quick blog concerning an atheist advertising campaign in the New York City subway system that raised questions about belief in

Forget Mad Max. Sayonara, William Wallace. Mel Gibson’s new role? A troubled executive who talks through a puppet. The Beaver (the name of the movie