Man's Coffin Designed for Pornography

A Russian man named Vladimir Villisov specially designed his own coffin to accommodate his vast collection of pornography. "The girls in those magazines ...

Augustine on Lust

Seeing women when you go out is not forbidden, but it is sinful to desire them or to wish them to desire you, for it is not by tough or passionate feeling ...

Natural Does Not Always Mean Good

Many people justify their participation in a variety of behaviors by calling them "natural." However, the following quote from M. Scott Peck ...

Corpse Flower's Empty Promises

What flower has been likened to "3-day-old road-kill," "rotting flesh," and "fish gone bad"? The answer is the corpse flower. ...

What if Sin Attacked Your Face?

A few years ago, Roche Pharmaceuticals began an aggressive advertising campaign promoting its prescription treatment for Hepatitis C. The ads featured ...

C. S. Lewis on Misplaced Desire

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy ...

Marilyn Manson Describes Hell on Earth

Brian Warner once said:

Initially I was drawn into the darker side of life. But it's really just human nature. I started to learn that everything that's ...

Hemingway Found Pleasure Meaningless

Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was the epitome of the twentieth-century man. At age 25 he sipped champagne in Paris, and later had well-publicized game ...

Empty Promises

A "Bonehead of the Day" e-mail reported on a newfangled toy recently released for distribution:

A U.S. company has an action figure called Invisible ...

Preferring Mom's Apple Pie

When I was growing up, whenever we went out to dinner as a family, and the possibility of ordering dessert came up, my father would say to me, "Don't ...