Phil Robertson recently made headlines with a sermon that bemoaned American culture as a “cesspool of politically correct crap.” With mainstream coverage of imminent (and controversial) topics such as same-sex marriage, abortion, race relations, and radical Islam becoming increasingly one-sided due to liberal demands for “political correctness,” conservatives such as Robertson use the term…
When America’s immigration crisis came to a boil, I admit I was instinctively a glass-half-empty kind of girl. I read newspaper reports, social media analysis, and watched direct interviews with public officials on the front lines and, along with many Americans, felt the fear and anxiety that surfaces when one hears about the possibility…
Last Wednesday ABC’s television series Modern Family received the International Television Audience Award for Comedy at the 54th Monte-Carlo TV Festival, indicating that it has among the highest ratings worldwide. Anyone who has seen the show knows its story line centers upon three couples—one traditionally married, one divorced and remarried, and one homosexual. With…
By Krissie Allen (The following was originally published last year at Newevangelizers.com, but because the message still rings true, I wanted to share it again at Choosing God.) “You just can’t force someone to learn about God,” I declared years ago on a balance beam outside of Holy Spirit Catholic Elementary School. My best…
Do you remember when you were growing up and encountered those pesky little things called consequences? It might have happened when you played with fire for the first time or pulled someone’s pig tails and your father stepped in, or maybe it hit home years later when you were riddled with hormones and engaged…
Last night I attended the graduation ceremony at a local high school. At the start of the evening, the school’s official mentioned to the audience that we’d be hearing speeches from a select group of honor students about how high school had impacted them. As I surveyed the twenty or so honors students on…
As my (almost) three year old and I were walking up the stairs this morning to get on her clothes, she stopped in mid ascent and said, “Mommy, I feel happy,” I was a little surprised. I had just attempted to play tickle monster with her and fix her some morning pancakes but because…
Note to reader: Let’s just say I’ve been reading C.S. Lewis’ The Screw Tape Letters and got inspired … Letter 1: Dear Wormwood, Your last letter sounded pessimistic about the Patient, so Screwtape asked that I write. I know how much you despise assignments to the female gender (I admit they can be stubborn…
The Birmingham snow –the snow that all weather reports indicated was to be a mere “dusting”—shuffled down in chunky clumps outside my school’s windows, draping the ground in white. It was the first time in about three years I had seen this kind of snow, the kind used in snowball fights and excuses for…
“The month of December does not just belong to religion or Christianity.” Those were the words of Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation—the organization responsible for erecting the letter A next to the nativity scene and Menorah in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza this Christmas. Even though the Plaza’s…
My husband and I recently concocted a plan to bring our children, including our two-year-old daughter Cecilia, to Disney World over the Thanksgiving holidays. The plan was that my husband would drive our three older children down a day early, and I would fly in with our devilish little one early Saturday morning to…
When my plane got delayed in the Birmingham airport recently, I found myself with some quiet time away from my family with no form of entertainment. I therefore took the opportunity to create something I’ve heard so much about in both the media and among friends: a bucket list. When considering what places I…