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Swearing Off the FCC’s Ruling
Here’s a fact: If you don’t watch TV for about a year, it’s amazing how weird turning it back on feels. Your once desensitized self
A Christian by Any Other Name …
So is Anne Rice a Christian or not? The novelist—author of Interview With the Vampire and other supernatural bestsellers—says she’s not. Though Rice made a
Movie Monday: Dinner for Schmucks
Inception has been, for the folks over at Warner Bros., a dream of a movie. For the third straight week, the Christopher Nolan/Leonardo DiCaprio thriller
If You Can’t Text Something Positive …
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 75% of all U.S. teens have a cell phone. When you drop the age to 12
Jersey Shore Ain’t All Snooki
I grew up at the Jersey Shore. So in defense of the folks back home, let me clarify that we aren’t all like the knuckleheads
Botoxic Wasteland
Even though “teen toxing,” as Botox use among teenagers has been dubbed, is still relatively rare, it’s on the rise. In 2009, 11,889 teenagers ages
A Zombie World Series
So, oil’s still washing up on the gulf, the economy’s in the doldrums, the honey bees are dying and my favorite baseball team, the Colorado
Movie Monday: Inception Reloaded
Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending, genre-blending, sci-fi-heist thriller Inception ruled the weekend box office for a second week in a row, taking in another $43.5 million and
When Christians Like Bad Stuff
So, between some reading of Augustine and G.K. Chesterton, I’ve been perusing a book from another Christian sage: Jonathan Acuff, best known for his blog
Those Sinful Superheroes
Superheroes were kind of a sensitive subject around my house when I was growing up. My best friend and I loved ’em, and whenever he
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Good media discernment is about guarding our eyes and hearts before we watch or listen. And it’s also about grappling with the entertainment we do see or hear. That’s why the Plugged In Blog is devoted to guarding, discussing and grappling. About Plugged In >>