By Brooke Luby Everyone blames someone for their strange childhood. I blame Mary Rodgers. Mary Rodgers, wrote the book Freaky Friday, which I read about eighteen hundred times before I turned thirteen. If you didn’t read the book or at least see the Lindsay Lohan remake, the premise is this: a mother and daughter switch … Continue reading Sexy Surrogates and Freaky Fridays: How We Hide
By Jeff Goins, Editor When I was in first grade, I had a bully named Teddy. Yes, that’s right, Teddy. It doesn’t exactly conjure fear and intimidation, does it? (More like cute and cuddly…) And quite frankly, he looked like a “Teddy.” But Teddy had a friend. A bodyguard, if you will. I can’t remember … Continue reading Bullies, Nonviolence, and Jesus
By Jeff Goins, Editor Wrecked recently had the opportunity to interview Matt Hammitt, frontman for Sanctus Real, about the band’s new release Pieces of a Real Heart. Here’s how it went down: WRECKED: What led you to write “Lead Me”? What’s the back story on that? Mark Hamitt: I’ve been married for almost nine years to … Continue reading Interview with Sanctus Real: Pieces of a Real Heart
By Carole Turner Hear No Evil‘s subtitle is “My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost”. A lot of it is set in the Christian music world of the 80’s and 90’s. Matthew Paul Turner, the author, was raised Fundamentalist Baptist; he didn’t go to a movie until he was 19 years old, and … Continue reading Book Review: Matthew Paul Turner’s Hear No Evil
By Tim Chermak “All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time it happened in London. It happened on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family. And Peter Pan chose this particular house because there were people here who believed … Continue reading Never Growing Up: Spiritual Lessons Learned from Peter Pan
By Renee Johnson “He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful” (John 15:2). “Hook up or get out.” That’s what my brother always says to me. What he really meant is… don’t mess around. Isn’t … Continue reading Hook Up or Get Out: God’s Prescription for Holiness
By Jeff Goins, Editor Let’s face it: Christianity in the Western world is quickly changing. If you’ve had a conversation with an average person on the street about what she believes about God or religion, it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that she probably doesn’t have regard for those topics. More and more people don’t … Continue reading Faith, Hope, and Love in the 21st Century: A Manifesto?
By Tim Chermak The end justifies the means. Or does it? As people of faith, whether we identify ourselves with Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, even Atheism, this is a question we must continually wrestle with. It’s easy to say the end justifies the means; it’s easy to say the means justifies the end. It’s hard … Continue reading The Myth of Education (How to Really Change the World)
By Jesse Medina Who is to blame? That is the primary question that President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, is seeking to answer in his new book Secular Sabotage. And the answer? Secular liberals. Even more, it is a calculated war they are waging in their effort to destroy religion and culture in America. … Continue reading Book Review: Secular Sabotage
By George Elerick The first time I saw the ministry of Joyce Meyer in action, I was in a small orphanage slum in the middle of Southern India. The kids were gearing up for Christmas and singing carols to usher in the winter solstice. I was with a team of people and we were there to sing with … Continue reading Book Review: The Love Revolution by Joyce Meyer