This reviewer, amongst a host of others in magazines and across the blogosphere, toss out the term “indie” altogether too loosely, though we treat the word like it’s a hallowed badge of honor. It’s as if, by simply attaching “indie” as a adjectival modifier to a traditional...

One of my childhood memories was that of my mom placing a plaque of Philippians 4:8 over the family television. At this point in his letter to the Philippians, Paul uses tells the faith community to focus their attention solely on positive things: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is...

“…there was famine in all the lands…” (Genesis 41:54) I know all the talk about the cup being half full or half empty, depending on one’s perspective. I know that we’ve much for which to be thankful if we’ll but open our eyes and see. “There’s still...

Where Jon Stewart dices the news with an acerbic wit, Colbert swings a lightsaber of madcap absurdity. I’ve always felt, underneath his right-wing pundit parody, there’s an element of moderation. His questions to particularly liberal guests may be delivered in Papa Bear-esque bluster, but...

by Adam Newton Everyone has their musical guilty pleasures: even the most diehard music snobs, in their darkest moments, will confess to you their undying affection for some cheesy hair metal band, ‘60s folk singer, or some atrocious soul singer. The vast majority of these guilty pleasures are typically...

The Holy War, the annual rivalry game between the University of Utah and Brigham Young, had some national implications this year. The 7th-ranked BCS bound Utes ended up trouncing the 14th-ranked Cougars 48-24. But even among the community-splitting engagement, I had time to pose and remember what truly...

An article found in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, written by Adam Drewnowski and S.E. Specter and entitled “Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs,” reports the following: There is an inverse relation between energy density (MJ/kg) and energy cost ($/MJ),...

A surge of anti-religion writing has drawn considerable attention lately in popular literature. Most notable among its authors are journalist Christopher Hitchens, British ethnologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, philosopher Daniel Dennett and a Ben Stiller-look-alike graduate student...

On a balmy Wednesday night, I ventured across Bank Street and went in the front door of Barrymore’s. The ailing venue that looks the same as it did in the sixties still smelled of the same cigarettes that were smoked there when JFK was in office. Matt was on stage, finishing the soundcheck for...

The notion of God as the judge is, in our culture, one of the most difficult declarations for people to accept. Our culture likes tolerance better than judgment, or at least that’s what we like to think. Other cultures around the world, though, find the mercy of God more offensive than the justice...