Matt Kaufman

What’s the best part of March Madness? There’s so much to choose from. There’s the sheer volume of basketball, especially the first few days. There’s the high stakes: Every game means a lot. There’s the fun of picking brackets, trying to figure out whi …

When most of us hear the word prejudice, we think first of a negative attitude toward groups of people, often based on race. With that in mind, we also may think of it as an attitude held mainly by other people, not ourselves (since we, naturally, depl …

One of the rewards of Bible study is those “oh, now I get it” moments, when you finally understand a passage that had puzzled or troubled you. I’ve had more than a few of those moments over the years. For example, in 2 Samuel 6:1-7, the ark of the cove …

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about James Bond’s womanizing. One reader asked why I hadn’t raised the issue of violence, too. I said that while it wasn’t my topic of the moment, I’d take it up soon in a future post. Which brings us to this post. So ho …

The current James Bond hype — owing to the latest installment, Skyfall, and to the character’s 50th anniversary in the movies — has me thinking back to the first time I saw a Bond film. I was 13, and The Man with the Golden Gun had just come out. (I’ll …

As usual, I’m enjoying baseball’s playoffs this year, and not just because my St. Louis Cardinals are in them again. I just love baseball, period. My reasons have a lot to do with sentiment and childhood memories, and I don’t expect everyone to share t …

Planned Parenthood has a gripe with the sexual ethics of young people. It’s not that those ethics are too loose: It’s that they’re too strict. Yes, really. On PP’s Facebook page for teens, they’ve linked to an MTV video calling on teens to quit express …

Who says Las Vegas has no standards of decency? “FOR SHAME!” blared an ad last week in USA Today from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. It came after photos emerged of Britain’s partying Prince Harry doing various things that certainly c …