Category: Culture

Unpacking Madonna’s Spiritual Beliefs

Madonna’s 13th album, Rebel Heart, includes quite a lot of spiritual imagery—sometimes couching temptation in terms of a struggle requiring divine assistance, other times merging

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The Internet, Desire & Depression

Is Facebook making us depressed? For at least some users, the answer to that question may be yes, according to a new study out of

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Smile But Don’t Touch

Ever heard of a Quokka? No? Well it’s only a cute grinning critter that’s part of the latest and greatest selfie trend on Instagram right

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Tales of a Third Grade Celebrity

Way, way back in the day—1972, to be precise—Judy Blume published a children’s novel called Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. To be honest, even though

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The Pope Talks Media Influence on Families

Technology can be a great boon to communication. But it can also be an isolating influence too, something that keeps families from talking instead of

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Of Frogs, Kettles and Spiritual Renewal

I want to take something of a personal detour in the blog today—but one that I think relates very much to the media-and-message flooded world

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Whale, Whale, What Do We Have Here?

OK, you may have already seen this since it’s casually blowing up the Internet faster than Kim Kardashian when she’s trying really hard. But I

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Far More Than Fifty Shades of Comments

On Thursday I published a blog titled “We’re Reviewing Fifty Shades of Grey. Here’s Why.” The response was … interesting. First, a shout-out to all

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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