“That’s a curse word.” My Christian friend and junior high school classmate scolded me  for using the inappropriate word–schmuck.  I had assumed it was another way to say “jerk,” but my companion corrected me.  I waited for him to smile and add the punchline,...

In the early twentieth century, Sigmund Freud became famous for asking the question, “What does a woman want?”  He concluded the problem with women was they were hysterical, and what they wanted most was to be manually stimulated to orgasm.  It was an innovative solution to women’s quandaries,...

Two weeks ago I stood in line at midnight to see the latest Twilight Saga release, Eclipse. In line were an array of angtsy teenagers, swooning college students, and obsessed housewives. Behind me, two thirty-somethings casually debated the sex appeal of the film’s dueling heartthrobs: Edward, a 104...

I wasn’t sure I was going to watch the Oscar winning The Blind Side. I have nothing against Sandra Bullock. I know that she’s having a tough stretch. I just can’t understand a universe where a woman who made n career of flashing those gorgeous doe eyes in romantic comedies steals an...

I received a lousy education when it came to science. I don’t remember anything my high school teachers taught me, and for college I went to the Moody Bible Institute (where science isn’t much of a priority). So to catch up, I am constantly talking to my wife about evolution, biology...

If George Clooney was in a T.V. show, it would be called, “Everybody Loves George,”  because everyone does in fact, love George Clooney. However, like all things we love, does this mean we should love them? Or him, in this sense?  Or is it some inescapable fate that has chosen us and we will always...

America is a Christian nation. I’m finally coming to grips with that fact. For a while, I wanted to believe this country was built on democracy, not faith, but I just can’t deny it anymore. Christians keep these 50 states running. I’m convinced. Let’s start by looking at the driving...

“The Road” couldn’t have been released at a more appropriate time of the year. The holiday season is when most of us forget about our trivial problems, buy each other crap and ignorantly sing hymns about a God we don’t believe in. So what does “The Road” have to do...

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...

There were moments when I was able to relate to Max, but I did so as a childish adult relates to another childish adult. Even though I have childhood memories of playing in the snow and exploring fields and forests by myself with a scepter made out of a tree branch, I don’t think my emotions were...