‘A clear, straightforward argument for eliminating television’

March 27, 2009

Joseph Gleason, Evansville Courier & Press (HT: Douglas Groothius)

Britney Spears’ father orders her to read Bible one hour each day

March 16, 2009

Mirror UK

Watchmen is hardly religious, but it at least recognizes that no human being can offer … redemption’

March 12, 2009

Josh @ Think Christian

‘Raping the Innocence of Generation Z’

March 3, 2009

Kent Shaffer, Church Relevance

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Stop the Slide

February 17, 2009

By Steven Furtick

slidingWhen you notice something in your life or organization starting to slip and slide, address it immediately. The sooner you confront it, the less inertia you’ll have to deal with in order to regulate and reposition.

If one of your team members shows up late to a meeting for an invalid reason, address it the first time it happens. Stop the slide before the other people in your meeting start to follow suit, and you have a full-blown epidemic on your hands …

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‘Sex-obsessed programming is part of effort to rebrand ABC Family channel’

February 13, 2009

teenMegan Basham, WORLD Mag (subscription needed to read entire article)

‘Always check your child’s homework’

February 7, 2009

Carlos Whittakermommy

Church partners with local Hooters to help hurricane victims

February 3, 2009

Associated Baptist Press

CBMW’s Jeff Robinson discusses case of young woman who is auctioning off her virginity

January 26, 2009

Gender Blog

‘Christians who espoused forgiveness did not forgive Ted Haggard,’ filmmaker observes

January 17, 2009

Alexandra Pelosi (HT: Sharper Iron)

Bad reporting on church discipline case in Florida

December 22, 2008

At the GetReligion blog, Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discusses the way journalists have reported the case of Rebecca Hancock, who says she has been harassed and threatened with public rebuke by the leaders of Grace Community Church in Mandarin, Florida:

“There are so many problems with the coverage that it’s hard to get it all down. Note the last line of the first paragraph above. It’s not that the church is going to go ‘public’ with her sin, they’re going ‘very public.’ There’s really no need to overly dramatize the situation, particularly when the woman in question has taken her situation to the national media — and not the congregation.”

‘Grey’s’ penchant for faith rock

October 11, 2008

The Line’s Suzanne Hadley reflects on the use of songs by bands like Caedmon’s Call and Lifehouse on episodes of the otherwise a/immoral ABC series, Grey’s Anatomy.