A well-meaning Christian leader told my daughter that the Twilight series has the same effect on a teenage girl’s brain as porn does on the brain. My daughter was rightly perplexed after hearing this since she loves Jacob the werewolf from the Twilight series. She had heard about the evils...

There is a verse in the Bible that says something I had always mistakenly credited to Confucius, or Bono, I wasn’t sure. Ecclesiastes 1:9 reads, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” I think that statement could not be truer than...

Before I climb up on that high horse of mine, let me come clean. Yes. I played Spin-the-Bottle as a young girl. It was a routine summer activity on Friday and Saturday nights in the trailer park where I grew up. Kids would gather at the deep end of the swimming pool during the noon-day heat but once...