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.

Scott Pilgrim vs. Reality

Full disclosure: I have never read one of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s popular graphic novels about Scott Pilgrim and his epic of epic epicness.  But my students insisted last week that I had to see the film adaptation because it was, well, epic.  And really, you should do something fun after you’ve...
August 31st, 2010 | Culture, Film, Media | Read More

What Decided Perry v. Schwarzenegger

Everyone’s talking about the wrong thing.  The Prop 8 trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger recently concluded in a flurry of punditry that had little if anything to do with the case.  While most media personalities spent their time aimlessly speculating or just provoking controversy, anyone who wants to...
August 11th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Culture, Domestic Policy, Family Issues, Human Rights, Politics | Read More

What I Did For My Summer Vacation

Most working adults don’t dream of spending a week of their summer tromping through the mountains with 150 high schoolers and a copy of Plato’s Meno.  But the staff of Wheatstone Academy are an odd bunch. Wheatstone Academy is the brainchild of Dr. John Mark Reynolds, founder and director of the...
August 2nd, 2010 | Culture, Education, Evangelicals, Philosophy, Protestant, Worldviews | Read More

The Problem of Our Past

Self-reflection is a tricky thing.  When we feel we’ve moved on from some idea, passion, or stage of our life, we tend to distance ourselves from it, like the college student who denies he was ever a Trekkie once he realizes Star Wars is truly superior.  We harbor contempt (or at least embarrassment)...
July 26th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, History, Media | Read More

A Scummy Book

There are two great lies that I have heard: “The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die” and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class Republican and if you wanna be saved, you have to learn to be like Him… It would be easy to dismiss these lines from Derek Webb’s A...
June 29th, 2010 | Culture, Evangelicals, Protestant, Religion, The Gospel | Read More

History Matters

This is an apologetic for the importance of paying attention in history class. I teach high school history, and I fully understand the boredom history class usually breeds in students. While I’m happy to spend 85 minutes discussing the variations of Christian doctrine among the peasant classes of...
June 2nd, 2010 | Culture, Education, Film, History, Media | Read More

To My Seniors, Whom I Love

I blinked, and I missed it.  Our last month together.  We’ve been slogging through government and politics for a year now, and our last class period is here.   For some of us, it’s been four years.  When you were freshmen, you intimidated me.  There were more days than I’d like to admit to...
May 25th, 2010 | Other | Read More

The Hobgoblin of Little Ideologies

Conservatives just ain’t what they used to be.  From the Big Brother program of unwarranted domestic wiretapping to military spending in Iraq that was so great it wasn’t even reported on the annual budget, the Republican party has been wandering far from its small government roots.  Of course,...
May 5th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Domestic Policy, Ethics, Human Rights, Politics, Social Justice | Read More

All Roads Lead to the Domestic Goddess

My mother-in-law’s first gift to us as an engaged couple was a culinary torch.  Talk about intimidating!  It may as well have been a ratcheting box wrench; I had no idea people used torches in the kitchen.  My grandmother was a model and showgirl.  When my mom left home, she didn’t even know...
April 20th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Culture, Family Issues, Worldviews | Read More

The New Doctor Is In

People around the world look forward to Easter weekend for a variety of reasons: the beginning of spring break, the end of the great fast of Lent, the ears of a chocolate bunny and an Easter egg hunt.  But in five years, Russell T. Davies has transformed Easter weekend for Great Britain.  In Britain,...
April 17th, 2010 | Media, Other, Television, Worldviews | Read More