Plugged In Blog

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were channel surfing on a Friday night after getting the kids to bed. It wasn’t long

I’ll admit it. I’ve groused and grumbled from time to time about our all-too-connected, time-sucking techy world—a place where just looking up from your screen

We all know that we’re supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves. And Spider-Man would seem like a guy who’d do his best to live

  Years ago, my wife, Leesa and I planned a weeklong backpacking trip with two friends. For a number of reasons, we chose the San

Godzilla, stomping into theaters next weekend, is bound to headline one of the summer’s biggest movies. But some folks from the monster’s homeland think he

You may or may not have heard that comedian Bill Cosby will receive The Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence at the American Comedy Awards

Media matters. The things we watch get behind our eyes. The things we listen to don’t just go in one ear and out the other.

It looks like a Marvel-ous spring. Just one week after Captain America: The Winter Soldier was knocked off the top of the box office heap

Last fall, The Christian Science Monitor published a story titled, “Modern Family Redefined: Say ‘Goodbye’ to the Typical American Family.” The lead-in bumper to this

Life is full of mundane little pleasures that, while probably not existentially important in the grand scheme of things, nevertheless make life a little bit