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• Why Kids Should Wear Cowbells

Since I know you are going to look at the pictures first I should just show them first. Click to see them bigger.

So, Benjamin wanted to try his hand at hair styling I guess. They were supposed to be taking a nap. But instead, they snuck out of their room and massacred the hair of [...]

• Half a Decade

Teresa,
It’s hard for me to believe that you and I have been married for five years. It seems like only yesterday that we sat praying and crying over the loss of our friends in a tragic but sovereignly designed van accident. That event drew us so close. I had always been very clumsy and nervous [...]

• Shaq’s Big Challenge

In case you didn’t know, last night was the premiere of an ABC special series called “Shaq’s Big Challenge.” We all know Shaq is big, but what is so big about the challenge?
Childhood obesity is a fast-growing epidemic in the U.S. And Shaquille O’Neal is trying to take 6 Florida kids from fat to [...]

• The Fountain (2006)

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An odyssey of one man and his eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. The primary focus is on modern-day scientist Tommy Creo (Hugh Jackman), who is desperate to find a cure for the cancer killing his beloved wife, [...]

• Conversations with God (2006)

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These “conversations” are based on the best-selling books by Neal Donald Walsch. Canadian actor Henry Czerny (”The Exorcism of Emily Rose”) plays author Walsch, who was at his lowest point when he found a new purpose for his life.
According to [...]

• Unstrung Heroes (1995)

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Overview: Diane Keaton directs this story of 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt) who spends part of the summer of 1962 with his two oddball uncles while his father Sidney (John Turturro), an inventor, looks after his mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) [...]

• The Effects of Pornography

I grew up in church, a fundamentalist church nonetheless. And I attended my youth group faithfully, and every February, around Valentine’s Day, our church would participate in “True Love Waits,” an abstinence before marriage campaign. But it couldn’t just stop with a simple urge towards chastity, these talks had to run the gamut; sex, abstinence, [...]

• Church: The Lost Art

The following is an excerpt of a commentary on the modern church written by an unbeliever.
It would be wonderful to imagine these places as sites where people gather to appreciate great art, music and poetry, and experience the best of religious history. Think again. A typical church service is a few hymns, a harangue from [...]

• The Longing for Beauty in “The Voyage of The Dawn Treader“

I’m currently reading an excellent book by Jonathan Rogers, author of The Wilderking Trilogy, called The World According to Narnia. The book is an up close look at The Chronicles of Narnia exploring their Christian meaning. These were some of my favorite books growing up and it is amazing when I share the books with [...]

• The Source and Importance of Beauty

tells us to “logizesthe” on beautiful things, among others. The word “logizesthe” means to dwell on deeply, to meditate. It does not mean to skim over. It would be silly to imagine that Paul would urge his readers to “logizesthe” on things that were not worthy of it. So, what things are worthy of [...]

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