Paul Asay
Associate Editor at Plugged In
Associate Editor at Focus on the Family
Husband. Father. Wary believer. Geeky movie lover. Recovering Mountain Dew addict. Houseplant wrangler.
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3 weeks ago |
pluggedin.com | Paul Asay
“Love is the most important thing in the world,” Yogi Berra once said, “but baseball is pretty good, too.”And sure enough, it is. While baseball might not be the draw it once was, it’s still considered America’s pastime. And when you look at our language, even people who’ve never picked up a bat still use its lingo. When a prospective dating partner turns us down, we strike out. When we write a dynamite proposal, we hit a home run.
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3 weeks ago |
pluggedin.com | Paul Asay
We tend to think of movies as a visual experience. We watch movies, we say. But what we hear in them can be just as important. A movie’s music can make a titanic difference in how we watch—and in a way, what we see. “When you write a theme, one of the things you want to do is … see how much life it really has,” composer Hans Zimmer once said. “How many possibilities there are. Can it speak to you in joy? Can it speak to you in sorrow? Can it be love? Can it be hate?
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1 month ago |
pluggedin.com | Paul Asay
Screens are bad. It seems like we hear that all the time. But are they? Sure, screens can be bad. But really, the message is more like, screens are powerful. They influence us and our children in myriad ways. And that influence usually depends on how, and how much, we use them. But don’t take my word for it.
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1 month ago |
pluggedin.com | Paul Asay
In 2002, the world was introduced to Experiment 626—a blue, toothy and near-indestructible monster that was supposed to be exiled to a desert asteroid. But he ends up in Hawaii instead. A little girl mistakes the alien for a dog and names him Stitch. And, as you might expect, chaotic and ultimately heartwarming hijinks ensue. Disney’s film Lilo & Stitch ultimately earned $273.1 million worldwide back then.
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1 month ago |
pluggedin.com | Paul Asay
I don’t know what the weather is like where you live. But at Plugged In’s Colorado headquarters, it’s pretty beautiful. The sun is shining, the trees are leafing out, the temperature is creeping up into the 70s. Yep, summertime is almost upon us. And for kids and teens, that just might mean spending the next two months inside, staring at screens. I know, I know. That sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it? But it’s true.
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0-3 in a driving rainstorm… I think the #Broncos are trying to make their fans just as miserable as they are.
I loved #insideout2. It was all about belief--more about what you believe about yourself than God. But it still touched on some deeply spiritual stuff. https://t.co/T8eaObAwFO https://t.co/2dE7rNUdds
Flannery O’Conner is wonderfully, brutally convicting.