Movies and Morals

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A study done by the Christian Film & Television Commission showed that movies with strong moral content averaged more than six times more money than movies with strong immoral or anti-religious content. This study seems vindicated by blockbuster… Read More

Debating Harry Potter

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Ours is not an age of reason. We tend less towards debating today, than to attacking those that disagree with us. Debate is a power game, not a common search for the truth. The true spirit of debate… Read More

The Confessions of Dawn Eden: A Review of The Thrill of the Chaste

Nearly sixteen hundred years after Augustine's meditation on his struggle for sexual purity and chastity, and in our similarly lust-saturated society where the spirit of feminism has duped women into imitating the worst of men's behaviors, it seems fitting that… Read More

In the Beginning

The New Year is a time for new beginnings.  Its significance goes beyond personal resolutions and is connected with the religious values of beginnings, of birth and renewal. 
As Christians, we look to Christ to make all things new.  But… Read More

Taming Dragons

There are few things as malevolent as art that lies. This is especially true of film, which has such a forceful impact on the senses. The manipulation of our minds and emotions in a direction that is contrary to the… Read More

The Road Not Taken

In the famous Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken,” a traveler comes to a fork in the road. He chooses a path, but knowing “how way leads on to way,” considers with some sadness the road not taken. Eros… Read More

The Da Vinci Puzzle

Of the The Da Vinci Code puzzles, the biggest enigma by far is its popularity. How does one explain the tremendous success of such a badly written, incoherent, and just plain silly book? It’s kind of scary really, to consider… Read More

Christianity and the Afterlife

Does the afterlife degrade and devalue this life? According to some critics of religion, it does indeed. If the real life of man lies on the other side of death, then how significant, how important can this earthly existence of… Read More

Scapegoating of Religion: Not a Leg to Stand On

Rational Conclusions?
Usually found in “freethinker” clubs, skeptic groups and organizations dedicated to secular humanism, they are the ones responsible for ridding the schools of prayer and getting Christian symbols banished from public places. They are often found in the… Read More

Contracepting the Priesthood

Relating Correctly
There seems to be one point that many of these arguments hold in common: what really matters is sexual maturity, not orientation. Regarding maturity, the new document on the ordination of men to the priesthood says:
The candidate…must… Read More

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