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Jesus stands at the end of life’s road for all of us. There can be no middle ground. The ultimate question is not how someone else responds but how...

So what do you want to call the 00’s? As an article in the New York Times noted, it didn’t roar like the ‘20’s, and they weren’t about ‘me’ like...

There’s a reason the “Cousin Eddie” character in the movie National Lampoon Christmas Vacation resonates with so many. We’ve all got a Cousin...

According to Harris Interactive’s 2009 YouthPulse(SM) report, today's teens are shopping, maintaining relationships, absorbing technology, worrying...

On Thursday I spent an hour with Nancy Turner on WMBI-FM in Chicago doing a broadcast called Journey to Bethlehem. At Nancy’s request I painted...

Wendell Berry, Leavings: Poems

Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

I love stories when the underdog prevails. It is especially appropriate when the underdog is, well, a dog. Her name is Faith. If you have not seen...

Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

A listing of hot cultural items from the the Internet, music, television and movies.

Frederick Barthelme, Waveland

Jim Tomlinson, Nothing Like An Ocean

A new survey found that 4% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images or videos of...

Aren't the lyrics of that classic Christmas song how we too often view God? We had better not cry. Better not sin. I’m telling you why. Jesus is...

Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor