Archive - Terry Mattingly -- Rational Sheep

Online porn is a symptom, not the disease

Parents need to realize that choices about digital screens bleed into all of life

Aug 13 •

Pro-family "Fantastic Four" flops at box-office

What happened? Many conservatives praised it's positive, even pro-life, themes

Aug 11 •

This will be short! Only a few minutes!

In which your scribe asks (again) questions about new Rational Sheep ideas

Aug 10 •

Crossroads -- More Americans are going to church(es)

Why switch? Why attend more than one? Why do some churches grow, while others decline?

Aug 8 •

For U2, faith has always been a hot topic

The young Bono already knew that, during our first interview in 1982

Aug 6 •

What's left to say about Sydney Sweeney?

Activists on the left and right cannot avoid this advertising rorschach test

Aug 4 •

Concerning mistakes in The New York Times

The bottom line: Not all editorial errors are created equal

Aug 3 •

Crossroads -- Why Colbert mattered so much to the left

Why we need a #JUSTBEFUNNY hashtag to promote more old-school humor

Aug 1 •

July 2025

I didn't want to write about "Elio"

But the latest Pixar box-office bomb is yet another sign of crashing media kingdoms

Jul 30 •

Another chance to pray for bleeping Ozzy

Osbourne didn't have the answers, but the Heavy Metal icon asked valid questions

Jul 28 •

Stop reading? Then democracy will fade

We live in an age in which it is countercultural to read books with your children

Jul 27 •

Crossroads -- Dissecting Scottie Scheffler's beliefs

Actually, journalists needed to ask questions about Jesus and the Bible

Jul 25 •

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