After serving as an associate editor at NavPress’ Discipleship Journal and consulting editor for Current Thoughts and Trends, Adam now oversees the editing and publishing of Plugged In’s reviews as the site’s director. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children. In their free time, the Holzes enjoy playing games, a variety of musical instruments, swimming and … watching movies.
How do we know what normal is? For example, is it normal for three college students—two girls, one guy—to have a simultaneous sexual encounter? That’s exactly what happened on this week’s episode of CW’s boundary-pushing series Gossip Girl. And some, i …
Some musical acts describe themselves as Christian bands, but you’d be hard-pressed to find lyrical proof. Flyleaf ducks the Christian band label, but we’re hard-pressed to think of any other act that professes its faith so boldly.
The music this San Diego rock quintet makes is muscular and weighty. The hope they communicate is light as a feather.
Bon Jovi returns (and he’s done that a lot this decade) with a set of rockin’ arena-ready anthems that mostly celebrate gritty optimism and the art of keepin’ on keepin’ on when the world threatens to take you down.
Chris Brown’s first single since being convicted of physically abusing then-girlfriend Rihanna doesn’t offer much evidence that he’s learned anything about treating women like anything other than objects.
Here’s a pop quiz on the subject of abortion: Where do you think the following quotes come from? “I grew up thinking Roe v. Wade was gospel and that a woman’s right to privacy was inviolate. But after hearing that woman on the stand talk about her baby …
In this intimate concert film, cameras capture Michael Jackson’s final days as he prepares to mount a colossal comeback tour.
Once upon a time, if you were a cable or satellite subscriber, you could rely on staid, utilitarian information outlets such as The Weather Channel to give you the raw data you needed right at that moment. You know, information to help you answer basic …
This Australian guitarist’s frenetic fretwork landed her the short-lived gig of a lifetime—which fortunately for her lasted just long enough to push her onto the U.S. pop charts.
Just as its title suggests, Lady Gaga’s latest hit perversely celebrates the demented joys of romancing the bad boys of the world. And the video? Well, it’s worse.
Earlier this week, Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman weighed in on whether violence against women on the big screen contributes to violence in the real world. Quick spoiler: She thinks it does. Kidman was testifying before a House Foreign Affairs sub …
Rihanna’s first single in the wake of her violent relationship with Chris Brown is a disturbing track about putting a gun your mouth and pulling the trigger.
