This week, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was sacked from the blindside by a headline in Big Easy Magazine reading: “Drew Brees records video for Anti-LGBTQ religious organization.” In fact, Brees had recorded a 23-second video for Focus on the Family promoting National Bring Your Bible to School Day. Read more…
During the college admissions bribery scandal, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman could scarcely be treated worse if they were serial killers. Anyone who has ever read Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” or seen one of its many film iterations can easily picture the French Revolutionary Tribunal, hissing and snarling Read more…
If you think the Super Bowl is just a big football game featuring large, sweaty men repeatedly colliding with one another, consider this: last year’s game drew 111.3 million viewers, making it the most watched event in U.S. television history vi— for the third year in a row. According to Read more…
During the holiday season, Amazon released a new commercial. It depicts a Catholic priest and a Muslim cleric meeting for a cup of tea in what appears to be the priest’s home. It all looks very friendly with smiles, laughter, and even a close-up of the priest patting the imam’s forearm Read more…
Christians Have Waged Their Own Holy Wars” was yet another annoying headline, this one in the Miami Herald. It seems that every time someone is beheaded, shot (by children, no less), or burned alive by ISIL, there is this inevitable handwringing over the violent history of — Christianity. Confused? So am I. Precisely Read more…
How often do self-righteous football commentators have occasion to lament the behavior of modern players: Chad Johnson‘s reality show and “Ocho-Cinco” publicity stunt; Adam “Pac-Man” Jones’ nightclub incidents; Michael Vick‘s dog-fighting hobby; and the never-ending soap opera that is Brett Favre. The modern athlete is, they say, selfish, all about the money, and Read more…