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Pedro at 40: How a Television Show Changed the Way a Generation Viewed LGBTQ Persons

MTV's 'The Real World' shaped our views of LGBTQ persons more than most care to admit. Pedro made homosexuality real for many people who had abstracted it.

Guest WriterTelevisionMad Men

The Frame for Watching Mad Men: When Joan sells Johnny

Christians are watching Mad Men, and this week we've engaged it. This time we tackle season six and the loss of the aura of cool surrounding the characters.

Guest WriterTelevisionpop cultureJeffrey OverstreetMad Men

Should Christians Watch Mad Men? A Rejoinder

Should Christians watch Mad Men? The morality of tv watching is a difficult question. Nick Olson responds to Jake Meador on how Christians watch Mad Men.

Jake MeadorTelevision

The Ethics of Watching Mad Men - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

While it is certainly good that evangelicals can recognize and appreciate good art when they see it, we should be careful when viewing shows like Mad Men.

Jake MeadorTelevision

House of Cards: Kevin Spacey, Tolkien, and the Bible - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

House of Cards is not unique in creating an impregnable individualistic villain who will do anything to seize power. Tolkien offers other examples, as well.

Matt MillerTelevision

Downton Abbey as a Jane Austen style Tragedy

Downton Abbey may look like a Jane Austenesque piece of culture, but the moral power of Austen's books--formative, not didactic--is absent in Downton Abbey.

Keith E. BuhlerTelevision

A mind is a terrible thing to waste on comedy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Eddie Izzard is a gifted, but he’s burying his talent. How can I claim this, and why should I be bothering about the speck in his life before the log in mine? As to the first, I shall attempt to […]