Category: Culture

Culture

Selfies Jump the Shark

What’s more dangerous: sharks or taking pictures of yourself? Now, you might think that those seemingly ferocious feeding machines Discovery Channel spends a week chronicling

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Dealing With Death in the Digital Age

When I was growing up back in the 1980s, the whispering buzz among my peers would amp up when something particularly transgressive began to infiltrate

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This Christianity Thing Could Catch On’

“So it’s not just Kirk Cameron and Stephen Baldwin and the kid from Two and a Half Men.” With A-list stars backing Jesus, who knows?

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The Grandparent Factor

When my wife and I were shopping for a new home before the birth of our third child, one factor influenced our choice of neighborhoods

Let’s Grow a Few Heroes

Remember when we used to have heroes? You know, those people you could look up to, admire, maybe even want to be a little like?

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Smartphone? Or Smutphone?

Porn is everywhere. And it’s killing us. Hey, even Playboy says that pornography is soaking through every nook and cranny of our culture. The men’s

Culture

War Rooming for Plugged In

Because most people have strong opinions regarding entertainment, as you might imagine, we get quite a few emails (and an occasional letter, believe it or

Miley, What’s Good?

Sunday’s MTV’s 2015 Video Music Awards were, naturally, again all about Miley Cyrus. She hosted it and managed to dominate it as only a savvy,

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Identifying With Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus is no stranger to the Plugged In blog. She has been the topic of many conversations here. In fact, now that you mention it,

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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