Dr. Baehr's Blog Archives

How to Fundamentally Change the Way News is Reported in America… And Make Half a Billion Dollars Doing it!

Allow me to begin by confessing that I am not using my real name in the writing of this article. I'm not, because I cannot. I have worked successfully within the entertainment industry for several decades...

How Classic Movie Principles Can Change the World

Movies with wonderful heroism and virtue marked my childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s. My mother would leave us at the movie theater to see ROBIN HOOD, IVANHOE, HORNBLOWER, REACH FOR THE SKY, and other adventur...

Survey: Democrat, Leftist Media Viewers Are Misinformed About Crime in America

A survey of American viewers of Democrat, Republican, leftist, and conservative media outlets finds that viewers of leftist media are misinformed about American crime stats. For example, fewer than 50 unarme...

Survey: Conservative Media Consumers Are Better Informed About Major Issues

A recent survey of 2,000 likely U.S. voters shows that conservative consumers of major news outlets are significantly better informed about major issues such as the amount of the national debt, the income tax r...

An Open Letter to Movieguide® and Dr. Ted Baehr

Dear Ted, and our almost 50-year relationship, had a profound effect on me as I wrote my new book, The Old U(VA) and I, 1961-1965. (VA) is in parenthesis because the book, while sited largely at the Univer...

Dr. Baehr’s Morning Devotional: In Love

"But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ." - Ephesians 4:15 "I wait eagerly for the LORD’s help, and in his word I trust." - PSALM 130:5 "Dear friends, d...

Dr. Baehr’s Morning Devotional: But I Know

"But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the dust." - Job 19:25 "My help will come from the LORD, who made heaven and earth." - PSALM 121: 2 "This is t...

Dr. Baehr’s Morning Devotional: Consider Christ

"Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant,...

Dr. Baehr’s Morning Devotional: Lost Anything?

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost. - Luke 19:10 The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. —Psalm 121:8 For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of p...

How the Mass Media Is Abusing Millions of Children

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” − Matthew 18:6 (N...

It’s Not Enough To Just Keep Your Child Away From the Media

In the 21st Century, the presence of media is so pervasive that simply trying to keep your children away from it is not enough. The parenting articles explain tried and true methods of protecting children from ...

Dear MLB, If You’re So Concerned with Human Rights, Why Are You Expanding to Communist China?

Dear Commissioner Manfred: As president of the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization, I would like to commend you for your new-found interest in policing human rights in the United States. Whil...

3 Encouraging Devotionals to Inspire Your Day

Every Sunday, Movieguide® Publisher Dr. Ted Baehr shares a devotional from the Bible with Movieguide®'s Facebook followers. The words are both uplifting and convicting, encouraging believers to draw closer t...

The Plight of the Conservative Artist in a Liberal World

The left has long understood the power of the arts in furthering radical ideas, in a way conservatives have largely failed to grasp in defending theirs. Conservatives with the financial means must increase thei...

How to Reason with Someone Who’s Been ‘Awokened’

The New York Times recently said people should not use critical thinking but allow them and other so-called experts to do the critical thinking for them. In fact, they said don’t look at other news sources. How...

Beauty in Diversity

Many people complain about the unhealthy division in America, neglecting to remember such powerful, antagonistic divisions with regard to the presidency of Adams and Jefferson, the hate for Lincoln, the divisio...

How God Fulfilled This Hollywood Vision 43 Years in the Making

In 2007, I received a phone call from a real estate guru who asked me to fly out to Las Vegas and produce a series of DVDs he would market to his clients. As a consultant to the major real estate firms in the U...

This Giving Tuesday, Nobody Does It Better Than MOVIEGUIDE®

Editor's note: December 1, 2020, is Giving Tuesday. At Movieguide®, we use your generous donations to influence Hollywood for the Kingdom of God. Our ministry efforts go far beyond what you might expect, and we...

Support Religious Liberty by Helping MOVIEGUIDE® Redeem the Media

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sounded the alarm last week, saying “religious liberty is in danger of becoming a second-class right.” He said America has never before seen such extreme limits on freedom as...

Election Day Fallout: Judgment Begins in the House of the Lord

However you voted in whatever election, there are always consequences and unintended consequences. When people voted for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, a highly suspect vote, or for Hitler in Germany, they didn’t...

Protect Your Children from Atheism and Deism

Editor’s Note: The following is the second of many articles developed from my new book, THE SCREEN-WISE FAMILY, about protecting your children and grandchildren from Non-Christian worldviews in movies and tele...

Great Hymns of the Faith: I Want To Walk as a Child of the Light

"I Want To Walk as a Child of the Light" was written by Kathleen Thomerson. Thomerson spent portions of her childhood in Mississippi, California and Texas. She attended the University of Texas and receive...

Great Hymns of The Faith: All Creatures of Our God and King

All Creatures of Our God and King: by St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) The text of this hymn can be traced back to a man whose name was Giovanni Bernardone, but he became known as St. Francis of Assisi (118...

2 Christian Holidays to Celebrate Instead of Halloween

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such t...