The Media Is Getting This One Right. . . .
We’re a nation of voyeurs. Why do you think we’re so obsessed with reality TV and celebrity weekly magazines? The constant and growing media glut of images (both moving and still) that fill our eyes have lulled us into a…
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Skins. . . Real Kids. . . In Real Time. . . .
Are our kids connecting with MTV’s new one-hour Monday night drama, Skins? You bet. This morning I spent a little bit of time on a section of the show’s homepage that didn’t appear on the Skins homepage until last Wednesday.…
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Skins. . . .
I suppose it means I’m a bit jaded when there’s very little that comes out of today’s media that I find shocking. But I realized last week that I’m not so jaded that I didn’t recoil when I watched MTV’s…
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The 80s. . . A 10-Year Long Bad Hair Day. . . .
Something short and fun today. I had this little video clip sent to me a by a friend. Since I’ve just come off two weeks of studying youth culture with a group of Doctoral students, I’m thirsting for something light-hearted…
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Problem, Opportunity, Responsibility. . . .
Sometimes you hear something so exciting that you just can’t sit on it long without just blurting out the good stuff that you just heard. We’re in the second week of our first residency with the first-ever cohort in our…
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Leave Them Alone. . . .
The media’s latest blitz, not surprisingly, is all about last Saturday’s shootings in Arizona. The fact that a young gunman killed or wounded a total of 20 people is certainly newsworthy. Add to that the fact that a federal judge…
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My Best Reads of 2010. . . .
Derek says it’s time for me to register my annual list of Top Ten Reads from the last year. It’s a difficult task to say the least. I always set out to read nothing but what I think will be…
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2010 Sucked. . . Or Did It? . . .
I’m not a big fan of the word, but I think it might be appropriate here. Over the years it’s morphed into a slang term meaning things like “stinks,” “lousy,” “repellent,” and “disgusting.” When I was recovering from my bike…
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I Resolve. . . .
I’ve probably blabbered on and on about this before. . . but I don’t really understand all the hype over celebrating the New Year. I think my worldview forces me to question why we get so excited about saying “goodbye”…
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Good, Good News! . . . .
Last summer, I spent some time blogging updates and prayer requests for a friend who had been in a horrific accident. Dr. Gary Parrett, a professor at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, was in a bus that fell off an overpass while he…
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This Is Why He Came. . .
This morning I saw a short feature on the year in pictures that was posted by the folks at The Today Show. A handful of the photos were what you might call inspiring and heartwarming. But the overwhelming majority captured…
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Sad, True, and Very Funny. . . Oh Those Extended Adolescents. . .
So a friend who works on a university campus sent us this video featuring some avatars “acting out” how a growing number of young adults act out in real life. . . especially when they are being held accountable for…
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