A line from one of my favorite comic strips caught my attention recently. "There are only two kinds of people. Abnormal people and people you don’t yet know well enough."

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

CULTURE

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

iWorlders are dissolving long-established boundaries because they believe that people are happiest making their own moral and relational choices--and the Church has turned a blind eye.

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

The Atlantic recently made the case that "there's nothing objectively essential about his contribution" in an age when any two adults can make a family. Are fathers unnecessary after all?

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

By suing the state of Arizona for “unconstitutionally” passing immigration legislation, the federal government is tacitly acknowledging its dereliction of duty.

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

The trouble with Charlie St. Cloud is that the screenplay tries to be so many things (part Field of Dreams, part The Sixth Sense, part The Notebook), that it doesn't do anything particularly well, including generating the necessary waterworks to win over its target demographic.

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

Dinner for Schmucks, a remake of the French farce The Dinner Game, expands on the original in many ways that improve the story, but it adds a heavy dose of sexual content that prevents the film from being easily recommendable.

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM

Perfectly Dateless delivers the laughs that readers have come to expect from Kristin Billerbeck. She combines a witty phrase with hilarious situations and an uncanny teenaged voice. She also seems to have a solid handle on the culture in which today's teens live, particularly Christian teens.

7/30/2010 5:00:00 PM