Culture

As David Mills of Mere Comments noted the other day, National Review does seem to be slipping a bit from being a strictly conservative magazine. Yesterday, NRO ran this absurd article in which the author, Catherine Seipp, (who incidentally writes for Penthouse magazine) rambles on about how Playboy magazine is not pornography and is not … Read more

Actor Robert Duvall is criticizing director Steven Spielberg for palling around with Fidel Castro in a 2002 trip to Cuba. Surprisingly, Speilberg met and had dinner with Castro for several hours: “Spielberg went down there recently and said, ‘The best seven hours I ever spent was actually with Fidel Castro.’ Now, what I want to … Read more

I knew it would eventually come to this: Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And he’s threatening to sue the cable company. Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of … Read more

Speaking of Britney Spears’ one-day wedding, Sacramento Bee columnist Anita Creamer writes: And so, as 2004 begins, the joke marriage takes its place in the pantheon of America’s heterosexual wedding culture, alongside reality TV marriages, starter marriages, second (and third and fourth) marriages, green-card marriages, arranged marriages, plural marriages and that faithful if virtually forgotten … Read more

It seems that bisexuality has become chic for teenage girls in South Florida [link via Marvin Olasky]. A South Florida Sun-Sentinel article states that many girls are kissing other girls or even claiming to be bisexual because it gives them attention from boys: “It’s really just straight children acting out that natural pubescent rebellion, of … Read more

I’m not referring to some obscure Lord of the Rings passage here, but to Terrence O. Moore’s superb article, “Wimps and Barbarians: The Sons of Murphy Brown,” on the loss of manhood in our society. Moore, a former Marine, college professor, and school principal, sees boys today developing into one of two types: wimps and … Read more

No, my feelings are not hurt, but I’ll bet you know someone whose feelings are. In fact, a person’s feelings seems to be the defining element for anything that is done in our society these days, regardless of whether or not the person’s feelings are grounded in reality. That’s why I like James Harrigan’s TechCentralStation … Read more

He is omniscient; he knows all. He judges us according to our deeds. He is outside of time, and he never ages. He is able to perform miracles, and controls the nature of natural things. He lives in a place that is inaccessible to humans. He gives us good gifts, and desires us to ask … Read more

Russell Moore returns from a blog slumber to give us an update on the current state of scholarship at the American Academy of Religion, which is beginning to look more and more like a creative writing contest than true scholarship. Read it.

Culture shock is an interesting phenomenon to me. I’ve dealt with it on a number of occasions in varying degrees. Jon & Shawna Cronan are dealing with it right now. They’re a couple of missionaries I’ve met who have just moved their family from Tennessee to Nepal (last week) and are now blogging about their … Read more