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Is Porn Really That Big of a Deal?

When it comes to porn, the question facing many men is simple:  is it really wrong?  Is it really that big of a deal?  I mean, it's just an image on a screen.  It's not someone I know (so it's not lust, right?), or someone I'm having an actual affair ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  19 Nov 2009

A Halloween Story

I grew up in a day when Halloween was little more than pumpkins, fall festivals, hayrides, and dressing up as a pirate or a farmer to go trick-or-treating.  That is what it held for my now very post-Halloween-age children as well.  As a result, I've ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Stephanie Rosenbloom,  Victoria's Secret

The 'Trick' in the Treat

I grew up in a day when Halloween was little more than pumpkins, fall festivals, hayrides, and dressing up as a pirate or a farmer to go trick-or-treating. That is what it held for my now post-Halloween-age children as well. As a result, I've had a ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Stephanie Rosenbloom,  Victoria's Secret

The Greek, the Latin, and the Hebrew

At the risk of gross over-simplification, there are three primary ways of looking at reality, at least among those of us who reside in the West.  Each is deeply important to grasp. First, there is the Greek way, which is largely descriptive and ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  19 Sep 2008

Annual Summer Reading List

Each year around this time, through the Update, I offer ten titles - in no particular order – from the previous twelve months for your summer reading consideration, usually with an emphasis on cultural understanding.  Enjoy. The New Christians: ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Tony Jones,  Jeffrey Toobin

Delivering Ourselves from Evil

From this and other scandals, the Catholic Church - and Christianity in general – has a tarnished reputation for basic integrity.  Not simply as a result of priests or ministers acting in very unchristian ways, but from the response given to the ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  29 May 2008

The Last, Best Time

Front pages of major American newspapers this week featured the findings of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which released a survey of religious affiliation based on telephone interviews with more than 35,000 Americans titled “U.S. Religious ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  28 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Gregory Smith

Big Brains, Small Impact

Twenty years ago, Russell Jacoby published The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe.  If you have heard the phrase “public intellectual,” you can thank his work. “I offered a generational explanation for what I saw as the eclipse ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  16 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Will Durant

Science and Religion: No Place for God

The National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s most eminent scientific organization, produced a book on the evidence supporting the theory of evolution (and arguing against the introduction of creationism or other religious alternatives in public ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  30 Jan 2008

Back to the Future…with Attitude

It all began with a New Year’s ball drop at Times Square.  It will end with record-setting technology, epic events in Iran, and an ever-increasing sense of globalization. In his new book America 1908, Jim Rasenberger charts a year that began with the ...

From DR. JAMES EMERY WHITE, Crosswalk,  15 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Henry Ford,  Robert Peary

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