“That which we once thought lost a full fathom five, shall one day Resurrect and be very much alive.”
“It’s a Wonderful Life is a fitting metaphor for a nation absent Christian belief. Jesus Christ said that his followers were to be like ‘salt’; that is, a people whose presence is felt for the good that they do.” Larry wrote this column for CNN. It was published on Christmas Read more
This week it was our great joy to attend our son Christopher’s graduation from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University. It is a long 3.5-year rigorous program to achieve this professional degree. Christopher has been equal to the task and we were thrilled to celebrate this solemn occasion with him. Read more
New developments in the famous banana duct taped to the wall. It turns out that the fruit in question was actually a fraud. Little did last Friday’s afternoon onlookers at the Gallery of the prestigious Art Basel in Miami know that “The Comedian,” created by world-renowned Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, Read more
We took Nigerian Bishop Jwan Zhumbes to New York City to appear on The Eric Metaxas Show. He enjoyed himself. More importantly, his message of persecution is one that needs to be heard. Watch the Video Now Share this article! Larry Alex Taunton is an author, cultural commentator, and freelance Read more
The Taunton Men love college football. A couple of years ago, we started an annual tradition: we would travel to one of the sport’s iconic stadiums to see one of the “blue bloods” play in what we hope will be a good game against a team other than Alabama. By Read more
It has been quite some time since we gave you an update on progress at Duck River. For the uninitiated, Duck River Ranch is a property about an hour north of Birmingham, Alabama. We have been developing it for more than a year. (You can read the introductory blog here.) Read more
In 1955, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck wrote a hilarious letter to Marilyn Monroe requesting an autographed photo of the starlet preferably “in a pensive, girlish mood.” But the photo, he assured her, wasn’t for him. It was for his nephew. Yeah. Sure it was. Read the full story at openculture.com Read more
In 1967, the botched circumcision of an anonymous baby boy led to a horrifying 12-year effort to turn a boy into a girl. Known as the “John/Joan Case,” the experiment was presented everywhere as a smashing success and proof that sexual orientation was a product of nurture, not nature. I Read more
The worst type of suffering, I believe, is that which the sufferer feels must be borne in silence. A couple of weeks ago, I was standing in the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. I had been sitting in the hotel’s restaurant for hours hammering out a Read more
A generation ago, cultural critic Neil Postman published the clever little book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, Postman considers the rival dystopian visions of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as articulated in their classic novels Brave New World and 1984. Read More On The American Spectator Share this article! Read more