Category: Culture
Andy Griffith: “I wanted to keep the characters clean.”
There’s a true and telling story told about the making of the pilot of the “Andy Griffith Show,” the 1960s era television sitcom created by...
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Why Scalia Will Always Matter in American History
My friend James Rosen has marvelously captured the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia in his wonderful new biography SCALIA: RISE TO GREATNESS 1936-1986 (Regnery Books,...
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The 6 Duties of Being a Good Christian Citizen. How Do You Stack Up?
Given the heavy-handed, obtrusive and even wicked nature of government these days, it’s not surprising that evangelical Christians, especially, remain wary, leery or even easily...
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Chick-fil-A’s $1 Billion Expansion Shows Biblical Values and Kind Service Can Still Win
Chick-fil-A has earned the top spot in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) for eight years running. According to the ACSI, Chick-fil-A “leads the industry...
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Kansas State Head Coach is a “Lover of Jesus”
With several bracket-busting upsets on day one of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament yesterday, fans of the annual March Madness festivities might be looking for...
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300 Attacks on Catholic Churches – In Less Than 3 Years; 82 Attacks on Pregnancy Resource Centers – In Less Than a Year
Vandals have attacked more than 300 Catholic churches across the country since May 2020, reports the non-profit advocacy group, CatholicVote.org. The group says, “The attacks...
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Christians Should Rally Around Vermont School Punished for Refusing to Play Against ‘Trans’ Athlete
A Vermont Christian school has been suspended from participating in any future athletic tournaments sponsored by the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA) after its girls basketball...
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On Saint Patrick’s Day, Remembering Hercules Mulligan, the Irish Spy Who Helped Save America
Whether of Irish descent or not, Americans will be celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day on Friday, a time set apart to honor the 5th century British-born...
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The New Yorker Tags Christianity as Demeaning to Women, Their Example is Exactly Wrong
The urbane New Yorker carried a recent review of a book on how men are falling behind women in important life achievements. But in the...
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Even Leftist Rainn Wilson Admits There is ‘Anti-Christian’ Bias in Hollywood
If you ask most Christians whether there is an “anti-Christian” bias in Hollywood, they’ll probably look like you asked whether 2 + 2 = 4....
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What We Can Learn from the History of Lobotomies
In 1935, Portuguese neuroscientist Dr. Egas Moniz pioneered a new procedure to treat symptoms of psychiatric illness. Using a thin instrument, a surgeon could sever the...
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Would You Rather Be Nice or Kind?
Whether sacred or secular, language is powerful. Our principal method of human communication, words have changed history, whether by motivating and inspiring or discouraging and...
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Cyndi Lauper Says Protecting Children From ‘Transgender’ Procedures Is Like ‘How Hitler Started’
A reporter from ITK Entertainment asked Cyndi Lauper, “What do you make of all the anti-LGBTQ legislation that’s making its way in bills across the...
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The Modern Hymn that Shows the Way to Being a Bold Witness in a Confused World
It was J.C. Ryle, the nineteenth-century English evangelical Anglican bishop who once wrote, “Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people...
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Why Christians Should Call Out Heresy
Should all Christians care about proper theological belief? Should we call it out when others who claim the name of Christ veer off into heretical...
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The Inspiring Story of the Soldier Who Served Well Because He First Learned to Forgive
You may have never heard of Brigadier General Theodore “Ted” Shigeru Kanamine – a highly decorated Army officer, and the first Japanese-American general in the...
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Hershey’s Canada Celebrates ‘Transgender’ Activist for International Women’s Day
Hershey’s Canada launched a campaign to celebrate International Women’s Day with a “Her for She” advertisement featuring four young women – and Fae Johnstone, a...
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Painting and Counting Stars: The Saving Power of Beauty
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky said that “Beauty will save the world.” Reflecting on those words in his 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn asked, “What sort...
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The Christianity of California
The sands of time have a way of obscuring and even masking the massive spiritual recession and upheaval of our era. Yet glimmers of renewal...
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The Andy Griffith Show Remains a Masterclass in Leadership and Life
It’s been nearly 55 years since a new episode of the “Andy Griffith Show” aired on television – more than half-a-century since the gentle humored,...
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The Church as Recreation
According to a recently released study from the American Enterprise Institute and the University of Chicago, church attendance has largely rebounded since the COVID upheaval...
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Places of Higher Education Increasingly Devolving into Deliberate Falsehood
Colorado College is ostensibly an elite institution of higher education in the Daily Citizen’s lovely mountain-nestled burg of Colorado Springs. It has a stellar reputation...
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Celebrating Pastor Jack Hayford: The Evangelical Gold Standard
There are many good things about the internet, and perhaps just as many if not more negative aspects. But one of the things I enjoy...
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Mark Wahlberg: ‘God Came to Save Sinners’
American actor and producer Mark Wahlberg recently joined the Today Show, telling host Savannah Guthrie that “God didn’t come to save the saints. He came...
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