The Hallmark Channel has a reputation for producing movies that social conservatives find wholesome. Not surprisingly, these movies get satirized by cynical Hollywood. Consider, for example, this 2017 satire courtesy of Saturday Night Live: (Yes, it is true that SNL is in New York while the Hallmark Channel is actually headquartered in, ahem, Studio City, California. […]
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Alarmist evangelical apologetics and the so-called post-truth world
If you listen to evangelical Christian apologists for any length of time, you will soon hear reference to an ominous “post-truth culture” or a “post-truth world”. As Lee Strobel observed in a 2017 interview: “we see a trend toward a postmodern mindset and ‘post-truth’ culture.” (source) And as John C. Richards, Jr. opines in Christianity Today: “culture […]
Transgender at the Spa? The Culture War Heats Up
This is quite the story. A transgender woman (i.e. an individual who is genetically and anatomically male but who chooses to adopt the social role of a woman) was barred from the all women’s Body Blitz Spa in Toronto. As the spa explained, many of their clients undergo their various treatments completely naked and they […]
Why Roger Ebert could have given God’s not Dead 2 Four Stars
It should be no surprise that the critics lampooned God’s not Dead 2: it received an abysmal 9% average from Rotten Tomatoes. So why, as my review title suggests, would I think the dearly departed (and dearly missed) Roger Ebert could well have given the film four stars, his highest rating? Simple. Ebert famously reviewed films […]
What makes you really, really angry?
A friend of mine sent me a link to an article by blogger Matt Walsh about the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner magazine cover. I hadn’t heard of Matt Walsh before this, but from my very limited exposure, he is a conservative Christian who makes his living blogging about North American culture wars. In the opening to the article […]
