What can heal the ideological divide in our culture?

Advent 2025, Week 2: Isaiah 9, Preview Have you sensed that there is a widening ideological divide in our American culture? I’ve written about it here on the blog, the sorting of our society. I recently heard someone suggest, however, that only 10% of people hold to the extremes poles of cultural ideology. 80% resideContinue reading “What can heal the ideological divide in our culture?”

How to eat media

Last week I said that a college Shakespeare class and the movie Dumb & Dumber helped me change my mind about media.  I thought I had this media thing all figured out when I was a teen.  I was confident that there was no way it was affecting me.  But as an adult I haveContinue reading “How to eat media”

How Shakespeare and Dumb & Dumber transformed my life

Though I went to Bible college, I can say without hesitation that the Shakespeare class I took during my junior year is in my top 5 classes of my undergrad career.   A couple factors made the class so good.  First, it was the prof, Dr. Joan Tompkins, who presented Shakespeare to us in anContinue reading “How Shakespeare and Dumb & Dumber transformed my life”