Howard Megdal makes a defense for the hot dog: Let’s be honest: When you are eating a hot dog, you are making a bargain with God. There’s a certain amount of information you normally receive when you purchase food. You buy a hamburger, there’s a certain level of belief that it’s ground beef. The same […]
The experience of romance, says Kent Dunnington, is an intimation of our destiny as lovers.
In the days when our courthouse was being built, a mason—we don’t know who—came to our village in the night and inscribed a simple phrase on the building’s cornerstone: God’s will be done. We were, at first, outraged that someone had dared to soil our builder’s work, but over the course of generations, the mason’s […]
These ladies strike a most curious pose (without the benefit of Prince) in order to bring the boys back home. Certainly an enticing offer that will end with 90% of Amish men jettisoning the English world for a life of bad beards and even worse haircuts. From left (just a guess): Martha Yoder, Sarah Hostetler, […]
See Part I of this essay series, in which Swanson begins her analysis of evanglical responses to the Twilight series by examining Twilight’s false message of abstinence, and Part II, in which she critiques New Moon’s portrayal of men as “protectors” and women as “perpetual, self-sacrificing victims.” Here in Part III, Swanson examines the dangerous sexual dynamic between Edward […]