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“Dug” is a smart, forward-thinking boy living in a village of mostly unmotivated and dim-witted people. Such is life for a young caveman in the prehistoric Stone Age. He wants to hunt buffalo, but his fellow tribesmen are content with small rabbits. He wants to fight the army that attacked his village, but the tribesmen want to retreat.

It seems that everywhere Christians turn in today’s world, they’re bombarded by unbiblical and hostile messages about gender and homosexuality. That even includes children’s shows, G-rated movies and sports broadcasts – three areas that once were safe for the whole family.

About 45 percent of U.S. children get a smartphone between the ages of 10 and 12, according to a Nielsen survey. But is that a good thing? And what is the right age to get a child or teen a smartphone, anyway? Our guest on this week’s edition of Words of Wisdom is youth ministry expert Jonathan McKee, who tackles ...

Thomas McGregor is a self-centered department store employee who wants only one thing out of life: to climb the corporate ladder. Of course, life rarely goes as planned. It started going downhill when he learned that the company slackie got the much-coveted promotion. Then, Thomas discovered that a great uncle (“Mr. McGregor”) passed away and left him a rural cottage. ...

We live in a sports-crazed culture, where weddings are planned around football games and adult men shed tears when their team wins the championship. So, can sports play a healthy role in the Christian life? Pastor and seminary professor David E. Prince believes it can. In fact, Prince says Christian families can use sports to teach their children not only ...

Thomas is a brave young man living in a dystopian world full of desolate cities, rusted cars and blowing tumbleweed. He’s also one of the few healthy people left on the planet, which makes he and his friends – who also are healthy – curiosities to society. That’s because something called the “flare virus” has ravaged the population, turning anyone ...

Katharine Graham is a 1970s female newspaper publisher working in a man’s world. Her board at The Washington Post is all male. Her newsroom is nearly all male. And when she chats on the phone with a politician or big wig, it is almost always – you guessed it – with a man. Few people believe she’s qualified, but perhaps ...

Liam Page is a world-famous country singer who has everything the world can offer: big houses, beautiful women, and fans who idolize his every move. Yet despite his wealth, he often thinks about Josie, the fiancé he abandoned on their wedding day eight years earlier in their hometown of St. Augustine, La, when he was young and immature. It seems ...

Phineas is a hard-working husband and father who has a flare for creativity and innovation. Right now, though, he’s unemployed and just needs a job to feed his two daughters in 1800s America. Desperate, he risks everything and borrows $10,000 to open a downtown museum of “oddities.” It’ll have everything not seen in other museums – even wax figures and ...

Nazi Germany is on the move, but everyone in 1940 Britain can rest easy. Winston Churchill is finally at the helm as prime minister. If it were only that simple. The courageous and resolute Churchill we’ve learned about in history books is certainly courageous and resolute in Darkest Hour (PG-13) – a biographical movie now in theaters – but he ...