Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 10/11/23 The Isolation Pandemic. In May the US Surgeon General issued an advisory on “the public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in our country.” The report asserts that the mortality impact of being socially disconnected is akin to smoking up…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 09/11/23 In search of answers. I first spoke with Ray McGinnis, the Canadian religious scholar, Psalm expert and unlikely 9/11 investigator almost exactly two years ago about his then-new book Unanswered Questions: What the September 11th Families Asked and What the 9/11 Commission Ignored.…

Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 01/24/22 Imagine the Woke Media as a psychiatrist. It would by like the worst psychiatrist imaginable – shaming you over past failings that you’ve worked hard to overcome or, alternatively, encouraging counterproductive grudge-holding over issues that occurred many years ago (perhaps before you were…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. What will you take from The Giver? As I noted in my review, The Giver — which open in theaters tomorrow (8/15) — is quite simply a great film. Its thought-provoking themes involving privacy, security versus freedom, the manipulation of language for social ends…

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