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Give Me Some Light

A collection of 57 posts

Were we worse than the KKK?

Were we worse than the KKK?

I'm beginning to see. Lord, heal my blindness.

Reel News. (That isn't a typo.)

On Movies & Media

Reel News. (That isn't a typo.)

🔗This post was updated with corrected links on November 28, 2025. I’m now writing the new movie-news blog at Christianity Today, which they've titled Reel News. This mini-blog made its debut today.

"Christian" is a Bad Adjective

Fred Clark rampage on Christian Art

🔗This post was updated with corrected links on November 28, 2025. Check out this three-part series on "Christian art"... ...over at Slacktivist: Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Preach it, brother.

Patrice Leconte

Wild day: bad news, good date night

My brother Jason, singer/songwriter/composer for the a capella group Rescue, is in the emergency room due to a very serious spider bite, and is getting heavily dosed with painkillers and antibiotics. Apparently he’ll have to go through a series of treatments before the volcano on his arm

Email of the Day: good words regarding bad words

Email of the Day: good words regarding bad words

For what it's worth, I posted a response at CT Movies to all of those readers who wrote in to tell me that I will be severely judged by the Lord because of my earlier-posted article, in which I argued that profanity is sometimes an appropriate element in

A thank-you 20 years in the making

A thank-you 20 years in the making

I have wanted to meet Sam Phillips since 1986. That dream has become increasingly strong over the years since then, as her songs have become the most personal and important to me out of any music I've heard. If I had to choose ten songs that have meant

Ask the Experts: answering a Christianity Today reader on art and profanity

Ask the Experts: answering a Christianity Today reader on art and profanity

🤐This text was originally published at Christianity Today on May 21, 2004, but has subsequently disappeared from their website. My contract as a CT freelancer granted me permission to republish anything I contributed to their website, I am reposting it here, post-dated to that original date — 05/21/04 — with