Beth Felker Jones
Longing for home
When Peter Jackson plays up the theme of home, it's a loving riff on Tolkien. But why must he make war the driving engine of the The Hobbit?
Emerging as adults
Our culture tells young adults to resist adulthood with all their might. New Girl portrays characters who want something more.
Pinterest and porn
The temptation of Pinterest is in the part of it that is trite, banal and predictable. But that's not all there is to the site's appeal.
Once Upon a Time; Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman
Several current tales of Snow White nod at feminist critique—while leaving the old paradigms for female power and beauty intact.
Are the kids all right? Questions about donor conception: Questions about donor conception
In The Kids Are All Right, a sperm donor connects with his biological children but is eventually dismissed as an "interloper" in their lives. To believe that the kids are all right, we have to agree with this judgment.
Marked for life: The body's meaning should come from God
The practice of tattooing has nearly always been rejected in Christian tradition....
Spanking away sin: Christian child abuse
Last year a four-year-old boy named Sean Paddock died in North Carolina after he was struck with a plumbing supply line, then tightly wrapped in blankets....
Jesus: The prequel
Anne rice, well-known author of many novels about vampires, has returned to the Roman Catholic Church and turned her writing energies to the subject...
Unsafe sex: Still watching 'Sex and the City'
My husband and I have acquired the somewhat embarrassing habit of settling down on the couch to watch reruns of Sex and the City....