Shawn McEvoy

I've been involved in several discussions with friends and colleagues alike in person, over text, and on social media since Sunday night. I've heard or read the (often impassioned) arguments about the "dangers" of 'He Gets Us: Foot Washing.' But here are my five responses from the heart and from Scripture...

When Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday fell on the same day I thought, "This suddenly makes a whole lot of sense to me; can we do this every year?"

All that's going away is a standard review format from an experienced critic, and a commitment to cover nearly every movie Hollywood produces. What will remain is a clearer focus on informing our audience about the following...

It's worked so well for our Bible study times, this format. It keeps us looking forward to meeting, keeps us targeted, gives us something to look back on as well.

As I wandered aimlessly around Trader Joe's with my wife and daughter, debating how much to tell them until we got home, I knew only that I was momentarily silent. Can I admit that I prayed that everyone else would be, too?

The list that follows is not necessarily what I've learned, or all I've learned. It’s what I recommend as guides for YOU, right now, entering your teens, of what you'll never be sorry you learned.

Where is God when atrocities happen and humans suffer? I can only conclude He’s right here with us, working in the hearts of those who remain.

I don't know much, but I do know what's awesome about this holiday, and how to ensure my family, like the reborn Scrooge, knows how to keep Christmas.

I'm generally not a big fan of bumper stickers, of advertising platitudinous tweets or angry opinions with my vehicle. But this one caught my attention.

The theological virtues are superior inoculations against whatever goes on around us, the very infusions that make possible a mission of bringing joy, mercy and laughter into the world, that elevate 'I can endure all things' above a mere platitude.

A brutally honest 40-something version of the "What I Did This Summer" essay.

There's a bit of controversy abrew over what Hollywood has done to the story of Kim and Krickett Carpenter in the hit movie The Vow. Asked to comment for a FOXNews.com story, how did I respond?

Not every film about faith is worth seeing, but when faith is present in a film it both sparks conversations and is there because conversations are already happening.

Patience prevents rash judgment, and judgmentalism. It secures a plan. It is a beautiful paradox of being a non-action and yet a conscious exercise of free will.

Everyone I know is shocked by the news out of Penn State. Everyone I know says they would have done differently. But then why do scandals happen? Because people who thought they were about the right thing become convinced they have too much to lose to do the right thing. Would I ever be one of them?