Category "Culture"

A few months ago was the launch of Taylor Swift’s new and “improved” album, 1989. Girls everywhere are raving about the new pop icon’s greatest success and her amazing new style of music. I can’t help but notice that Taylor got her popularity by singing about broken relationships and whimsical love stories. Don’t get me […]

I am one of “those” people. The crazy type who goes Black Friday shopping and hunts for awesome deals late into the night. Yep, that was me last night. My husband showed true love by escorting me to all of the many stores I “needed” to go to. And to top it off, we just […]

Conversation #1: Me: “Hey Rachel! Since you’re a senior in high school now, what do you think you’ll do once you graduate?” Rachel: “Oh…well, I’m not really sure. I applied for a bunch of colleges, so if I get accepted to one, I guess that’ll be God’s sign that I should go!” Me: “I see…so […]

She starred in thirty major films, was awarded the Golden Globe for “Female World Film Favorite,” started her own production company, voted “2nd Greatest Movie Star” of all time by Premiere Magazine, and was chosen by Empire Magazine as one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History.” She was beautiful, talented, successful, and seemed […]

I was fifteen years old and surrounded by my girl friends at a sleepover party. The birthday girl stands up and announces that we’re all going to watch a movie. She says the name of the movie and my heart immediately sinks. This movie was bad news. What’s worse, I knew specifically that my parents […]

Rachel was a Christian girl from a conservative family. She grew up in church and went to all the Christian conferences. As she grew older, she decided she didn’t like the straight and narrow path of the Christian life, so she ventured out to try some worldly “fun.” After several bad friendships, parties, and guys, […]