Posts Tagged ‘Entertainment’
Should You Watch the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Last year I wrote a blunt blog about the Super Bowl halftime show. It was reactionary, partly written in frustration that so many people complained about the highly sexualized nature of the event when we should have seen it coming. That blog was also my most read piece of 2020, probably because it had the…
Read MoreMaking Entertainment Choices
FrontLine — September/October 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 5 Prove It! Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:21–22 I have a secret passion. I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a child of the 1970s I became a rabid Phoenix Suns fan.…
Read MoreHow to Apply the Bible to Entertainment Choices Today
Brian Hand FrontLine • January/February 2014 Entertainment is not our enemy, but our Enemy employs entertainment effectively.1 Pretending, as some Christians do, that the Enemy is either incapable or unwilling to use entertainment to accomplish his agenda is naïve at best. It may amount to a spiritual dereliction of duty. But how can we navigate…
Read MoreFatal Attraction: What Entertainment Is Doing to Our Youth
Mike Ascher In 1985 author and educator Neil Postman wrote the book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In his opening paragraphs Postman states that “at different times in our history, different cities have been the focal point of a radiating American spirit.” For example, he points out that before the American Revolution “Boston was the center…
Read MoreOur Christian Movie Rating System
Cynthia Blake Simmons Scripture instructs us that our time is valuable and given to us for a purpose. The minutes and hours entrusted to us upon this earth require faithful stewardship as do our talents and financial resources. If we are guiding our lives with an eternal view, then we will not be haphazard in…
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