Politics & Policy

The Surprising Gimme Shelter

By Anne Morse January 25, 2014

G​imme Shelter, a film with a powerful pro-life message that opened yesterday in theaters around the country, almost didn’t make it to the screen; certain forces in Hollywood thought it ...

Family Film Mirror, Mirror Opens Today

By Anne Morse March 30, 2012

Mirror, Mirror is not for children who want films to mimic fairy tales in every detail. But for everyone else, this is an amusing take on the Snow White story: ...

Not My Mother’s Christian Film

By Anne Morse October 7, 2011

I was 13 years old when my mother took me, in 1970, to see The Cross and the Switchblade, an unabashedly evangelical film about New York gang leader Nicky Cruz, ...

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Can This (Royal) Marriage Be Saved?

By Anne Morse April 27, 2011

Thirty years ago this July, I stayed up to watch the fairy-tale wedding between a shy young pre-school teacher and the prince of Wales. Fifteen years, two children, and considerable ...

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Coming to a Truck Stop Near You

By Anne Morse January 15, 2008

Fourteen-year-old Cara and her 15-year-old cousin, Stacy (not their real names) walked out of their homes in Toledo, Ohio on a rainy May day in 2005 to get milkshakes. ...

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The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of the Feet

By Anne Morse November 9, 2007

The 2007 New York City Marathon is finished, except for a few thousand stragglers; after four hours of pounding the pavement, I am now hiking exhaustedly back to my hotel, ...

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The Jews Knew?

By Anne Morse September 11, 2007

There is something about growing up in the Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories (in my case, for example, that the Mafia/Castro/ CIA really killed President Kennedy) that turns one off ...

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Telling the Rape Victim’s Story

By Anne Morse May 17, 2007

It’s the kind of question designed to make pro-life politicians squirm. “Tell me,” Wendell Goler asked Senator Sam Brownback during Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, “Since you’ve opposed abortion in every instance ...

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A Brutal Musical

By Anne Morse October 5, 2006

There are pleasanter ways to spend an evening than watching people be kicked, whipped, and shot to death. Nevertheless, some 1,300 people paid $80 a ticket to watch on-stage depictions ...

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Little Boy Lost

By Anne Morse July 31, 2006

Adam Walsh would be 31 years old today had he not been kidnapped from a Florida shopping mall and murdered. The little boy in the famous photograph — the one ...