The statistics are truly astounding. American adults are now spending more than 11 hours a day consuming media. This includes reading, watching, listening to, and interacting with media. Four of the 11 hours are spent with their digital best friend, a smart phone or a tablet. And 21% of adults say they are constantly on …
Continue...A brilliant photograph on Instagram, an eye-catching billboard along the interstate, an ambitious landscape inside a new adventure video game, a magazine centerfold, a witty commercial, a music video, an ever expanding television series, a hot blockbuster movie, a sports clip of an athlete’s glory (or injury), a viral GIF on social media—we live in …
Continue...It’s the time of year for getting together over the holidays with friends and family; a time to reconnect and reminisce; a time for sharing the love; and a time for giving. In a day and age where we are incredibly disconnected, these instances of being together with each other might be more important than …
Continue...Each year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offers up nominations for what it believes to be the best work in film from the previous year. This year’s upcoming ceremony looks to be particularly interesting after last year’s debacle in which the film “La La Land” was mistakenly named Best Picture only to …
Continue...In 1977, I was a fourth grader at Edgewood Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland. My best friend Harry and I collected comic books like many other kids on our block. We would spend hours reading about Spider-Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four. We would also draw and sell pictures of these …
Continue...Note: This is the third article in a series on how should Christians think about ‘the news.’ You can find part one here and part two here. “Everybody complains about the weather,” said the writer Charles Dudley Warner, “but nobody does anything about it.” We could say the same about the media. Everyone complains about …
Continue...Note: This is the second article in a series on how should Christians think about ‘the news.’ You can find part one here. Fake news—the term—seems to be everywhere these days. The phrase has become so ubiquitous that world leaders are even using it. From December 2016 to July 2017, President Trump used the term …
Continue...What exactly is the “news”? Who decides what constitutes news? What makes it important? What distinguishes news from mere gossip, ephemera, or trivia? What it’s purpose for the individual? How should Christians relate to news? These questions have significant implications for how we engage with our world, and yet Christians rarely—if ever—stop to consider them …
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