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Can You Please Hurry Up?
Frustrated that I haven’t gotten to the point yet? Here it is: Technology is making us more impatient. Once upon a time, optimistic futurists imagined

Culture Clips: Behind Bars, But Newly Freed
The Bible says the truth will set you free. But sometimes it’ll land you in jail, too. Languishing in jail in advance of his trial

Angel Hasn’t Fallen Yet
In a decidedly sleepy weekend at the box office, the Gerard Butler actioner Angel Has Fallen flapped over a legion of holdovers to claim its
What’s Streaming for Families in September (2019)
Well, it’s September. Football season is once again sticking its pigskin snout into your life and your local team is once again appearing less than

A Plugged In Conversation With Skillet’s John Cooper
Skillet has spent more than two decades pumping out hard rock delivering a two-part message: Life can be hard, but God is faithful. That theme

Culture Clips: Farewell, My Captain. (Oh, and the Football Player’s Gone, Too.)
The football world was a wee bit shocked when Andrew Luck, oft-injured quarterback for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, announced last week that he was hanging

Tech Tuesday: The Biggest Problem With Online Gaming? Us.
They say numbers don’t lie. And if that’s true, then the online gaming world may have a problem on its hands, especially in light of

Angel, Overcomer Both Overperform
Fallen Angel? Hardly. The new Gerard Butler actioner, Angel Has Fallen, actually fluttered straight to No. 1, soaring high above its competition with an estimated

Childhood’s End
It’s a generational rite of passage for oldsters to begin stories with the line, “When I was your age … ” When we’re young, we

Culture Clips: The Play Nice Edition
Pink’s tired of all the negativity on the internet. Lashing back at online natterers who don’t like how she and husband Carey Hart are parenting
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