Articles By: Lindsay Stallones

Lindsay teaches Advanced Placement history and political science in a Christian high school. She graduated from Biola University summa cum laude where she earned a B.A. in history and she holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Stanford University. She is a Perpetual Member of the Torrey Honors Institute, a film geek, and a screenwriter. Both in her classroom and beyond, Lindsay spends her time bringing history to life for the uninitiated, promoting ecumenical and bipartisan conversation within the Body of Christ, working for social justice at home and abroad, and enjoying and preserving God's Creation.

Everyday Justice and Lent

“Welcome, dear feast of Lent!” George Herbert, English country priest and poet wrote in Lent (1633). Last week, the western church entered the season of solemn preparation to remember Christ’s great sacrifice and victory over sin and death, and in a short while our eastern brothers and sisters...
February 23rd, 2010 | Book Reviews, Creation Care, Human Rights, Other, Religion, Social Justice | Read More

A Rush to the Middle… Class

It’s the speech the White House Communications Office spends a year writing, and the news media spends a couple days dissecting.  It was important enough that the Framers mandated that the president “shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend...
January 28th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Democrats, Domestic Policy, Economy, Politics | Read More

Deconstructing Darwin

Those who are surprised that a movie about Charles Darwin’s struggle to complete On the Origin of the Species raised controversy in the U.S. haven’t spent much time following the mundanity of the culture wars.  In this country, we’ve created entire industries based on the tit for tat public battles...
January 22nd, 2010 | Film, Intelligent Design | Read More

Climbing Raven’s Ladder

A good book is a rare delight, and a good fantasy book, rarer still.  Jeffrey Overstreet’s Auralia Thread promises four great ones.  Overstreet began his career not as an author, but as a film reviewer.  His book Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies should...
January 20th, 2010 | Book Reviews | Read More

Garrison’s Legacy

The greatest challenge to the modern abolitionist movement isn’t the determination of slavers, or the threat of violence against those who would liberate slaves. It isn’t the ponderous, glacial pace of government action, or the corruption of policy through the sausage-making process of legislation...
January 4th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Human Rights, Social Justice | Read More

Grrrl Power on Roller Skates

Most chick flicks are disappointing. Sure, you get an occasional pleasant surprise like Little Black Book, or a film with a couple nice moments like Mona Lisa Smile, but overall, ‘chick flick’ is code for saccharine, contrived, and meaninglessly cathartic. At best, they’re a waste of a couple hours....
November 11th, 2009 | Film, Other | Read More

In Defense of Butter

Julia Child is out to kill us all. That’s the conventional wisdom in America, at least. French food with its rich cheeses, its fatty creams, and above all its pounds upon pounds of butter must be the most decadently unhealthy cuisine on earth. The problem with that theory, however, is that the French...
August 28th, 2009 | Book Reviews, Conservative/Liberal, Creation Care, Science | Read More

America Needs a Doctor

Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming monstrosity, Inglorious Basterds, has finally gone into high-gear marketing for its impending release.  The film features a campy Brad Pitt and a squadron of American thugs (including, of course, Tarantino’s signature hot fighter chick) who go behind enemy lines in occupied...
August 11th, 2009 | Other | Read More

A Hero Passes

Frank McCourt wasn’t a well-behaved celebrity.  Of course, in our age a statement like that tends to suggest a tired starlet who must shed her underwear or shave her own head to get media attention, but McCourt did neither.  He did get chastised by his principal the first week of teaching, once for...
July 24th, 2009 | Art & Literature, Culture, Education | Read More

The Shameful Silence: Iran, Revolution, and the American Media

Saturday was a critical day in the history of Iran.  For over a decade, the younger population in Iran (the country with the most people under 30 per capita) has been growing increasingly disillusioned with the ironclad principles of the Islamic Revolution.  There have been moments in its recent political...
June 14th, 2009 | Media, Television | Read More