Parenting in Pop Culture
The cover of Time magazine has us asking if we are “mom enough.”
GCB: Good Christian Hypocrites
Posted by gtrotter in Spirituality, culture on March 13, 2012
It’s the rare TV series that jumps the shark in the first episode. But ABC’s season premiere of its new show about mean girls who become desperate housewives in the Bible Belt did exactly that with “GBC”:“Good Christian Bitches.” The title, from the book by Kim Gatlin, engenders a level of cognitive dissonance last seen on TV when Arthur Fonzarelli replaced his leather jacket with waterskis. Read more here.
At CPAC, new kind of culture war
You know things have taken a turn for the dramatic when a Baptist preacher declares, “Thanks to Obama, we are all Catholics now.” And not just any Baptist preacher, but Mike Huckabee himself.
That happened on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference here in Washington, D.C. Only a month before, the true believers among conservative pundits had dismissed Rick Santorum as more of a Catholic than a conservative. Read more here.
Santorum: More a Catholic than a conservative?
Read my thoughts about presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and his Catholic faith.
The Gospel according to Hitchens
Read my thoughts about the Gospel and world-famous atheist Christopher Hitchens.
After Breaking Dawn, talking sex and chastity with teens
Read my thoughts about Twilight, teen sex, and chastity here.
Love, American Style
“Obviously, the way people ‘sell themselves’ has a lot to do with creating certain illusions, creating positive impressions and that is what interested me in reading the personals in the New York Review of Books, which sounded completely implausible and unbelievable. My response to those personals was that if such people exist, why would they have to advertise?”
Gayle recently spoke with Paul Hollander, author of Extravagant Expectations: New Ways to Find Romantic Love in America. Hollander was born in Budapest. He studied at the London School of Economics, the University of Illinois, and Princeton before teaching at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author or editor of fourteen books on political sociology and cultural-intellectual history. You can read the interview here.
Redemption of a White House Insider
Former Presidential Special Assistant Timothy S. Goeglein talks with Gayle about politics, forgiveness and conservatism in this revealing and personal interview
Bucking Buckley’s Rule
Read my thoughts about the 2012 Republican presidential nomination contest.