The Spiritual Lessons in Felicity Huffman’s Confession
Public figures—be they actors, musicians, politicians or athletes—sometimes make poor choices. And sometimes they have to face the consequences. Over the last seven months, we’ve watched one such moral scandal play out in the media. Actresses Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, Get Shorty) and Lori Laughlin (Fuller House, When Calls the Heart) were among a group […]
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 a world in which technology would make life so efficient that our biggest worry would be what to do with all our free time. Yeah, well, predicting the future has […]
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 is evident again on the band’s 10th studio album, Victorious. Recently, Skillet’s high-energy road show rolled through the Rocky Mountains, and my son and I had a chance to go […]
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 roll our eyes. And then one day, we do it ourselves. Consider yourselves warned. OK, I’m not that old. But—here it is—when I was my now-12-year-old son’s age in the […]
Skillet Frontman Asks, ‘What in God’s Name Is Happening to Christianity?’
Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because we’re forced to confront something about life or about ourselves that’s uncomfortable, maybe even painful. That doesn’t feel good. Increasingly, though, mainstream culture is veering away from telling hard truths. Especially those that make anyone feel uncomfortable. And for many, emotions have become the path to their subjective, […]
Spider-Man: Far From Relinquishing No. 1
Another weekend. Another superhero movie on top. Spider-Man: Far From Home faced little real competition during its second weekend in theaters. Oh sure, there were a couple new R-rated films at the multiplex (which I’ll get to in a minute). But they were never going to challenge Marvel’s red-and-blue icon for box-office supremacy. Result? The […]
Tech Tuesday: What’s a Burner Phone?
You may never have heard the term “burner phone” before. But if you’ve seen a spy movie in the last, oh, 20 years or so, you already know what a burner phone is. Simply put, a burner phone is typically a cheap, disposable, low-tech mobile phone with an anonymous phone number that can’t be tracked […]
How Are Screens Affecting Our Sleep?
Finally, I thought. Everyone was finally in bed at the end of a long day. But I wanted just a few more minutes to wind down. So what did I do? I picked up my phone, of course. I know, I know, doctors say you shouldn’t be looking at screen within half an hour of […]
Culture Clips: Apple Deletes iTunes
Once upon a time, we bought CDs. (And before that, cassettes, vinyl records and, yup, even 8-tracks for a hot minute in the mid-’70s.) But that list illustrates an inescapable reality: Music formats eventually become obsolete. CDs, while not technically extinct, have given way over the last two decades to digital music-streaming platforms such as […]
Movie Monday: Godzilla, King of the Box Office
For a radioactive lizard who’s now technically eligible for retirement, Godzilla still knows how to get his stomp on. It’s been 65 years since Gojira (as he’s known in Japan) first tore through Tokyo. Thirty-five films later, moviegoers still pony up to see him square off against his always-angry kaiju nemeses. Godzilla: King of the […]