Tag: "culture"

Take Up Your Cross
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For My Name’s Sake

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God’s Honor Roll and Satan’s Radar are the same list.

Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple’s America

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Her movies reflected what was good and decent in this country.

Beer at Football Game
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Alcohol, Patriotism, and the NFL: The Best Hope for Tailgaters

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Was there more underlying this unsettling culture?

Why the Incarnation Matters
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Why the Incarnation Matters

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“But this I have against you, that you have forgotten your first love.”  (Apocalypse 2:3) When it is asked what the biggest problem in the Church is, people respond in a variety of ways.  Various Catholics cite the loss of the sense of sin, loss of the dignity of the human person, the dictatorship of […]

Miley Cyrus’ Exploitation Doesn’t Surprise
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Miley Cyrus’ Exploitation Doesn’t Surprise

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You’d better sit down because this is going to come as quite a shock. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have broken their engagement. I know. You probably need a minute to collect yourself. Who wouldn’t? They’ve been together since 2010 when they met on the set of a forgettable film called “The Last Song” (would […]

Giving Up But Holding on to Hope in our Changing Culture
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Giving Up But Holding on to Hope in our Changing Culture

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I quit. I just can’t do it anymore. I give up. I surrender. I call “Uncle.” For years, I’ve stood at the intersection of parenting and politics, trying to point out the myriad ways in which we are letting our culture change our children, only to anticipate with certain alarm the impact those changes will […]

The Character of Our Culture Defines Our Children
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The Character of Our Culture Defines Our Children

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If you have access to the Internet, you likely have read a viral blog post by single mother of four Liza Long titled “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother.” The piece has had millions of hits on the various sites on which it has been published. If you haven’t seen it, check your email. Someone has […]

On Writing in Dark Times
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On Writing in Dark Times

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In a (very) recent episode of the confessional Lutheran podcast “Issues, Etc.,” Matt Harrison, interviewing Allan Carlson, reflected on the meaning of the recent election for social conservatives. I’m sure we’ve all been immersed in this sort of thinking, this past week or so: Harrison said that “while there’s not an inevitability to this, we may […]

Witnessing in the Here and Now
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Witnessing in the Here and Now

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Having offered my initial response to the election of 2012, I promised a more positive column, and that promise is easy to fulfill—Christ is risen, and faith in him is stronger than death. Although I missed living in the 1950’s by a hair’s breadth, that decades’s culture was long celebrated in movies, books, and music. […]

Finding a Good, Catholic Restaurant
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Finding a Good, Catholic Restaurant

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“I know a great little place where we can get some good, authentic Catholic cuisine.”  How would you react if your date made that statement?  If you’re being honest, wouldn’t you silently stare at that person with a blank look on your face, and think to yourself “Um…I think I’ll go home now”? I have […]