Mixed Signals: Kraft Mac & Cheese on Generational Sin

“This Kraft ad speaks to our sin nature and how the behaviors of one generation are so easily picked up by the next.”

Mixed Signals: How to Make a Proper Apology

“Learning to make a proper apology is one of those indispensable life skills that we all need but few of us were trained to deliver appropriately.”

Mixed Signals: Global Warming Debate Leads to Chicago Billboard Slander

“If people agree with your message subconsciously but consciously think you are petty, how is that helpful?”

Mixed Signals: Giving Grace to the Airline Industry

“No one is perfect. Not even the airline industry.”

Mixed Signals: T-Mobile’s Good Girl Goes Edgy but Do Customers Care?

“The question is if edgy-and-fast is the key decision factor customers consult when selecting mobile companies.”

Mixed Signals: Skype’s Campaign Wants to Bring Back Social Graces

“These campaign messages forget that most people are not using technology to replace human interaction but to enhance it.”

Mixed Signals: Fast Phones Expose Your Inner Ugly

“Sometimes having the latest and greatest the market has to offer plays right into our pride, and we become the worst versions of ourselves.”

Mixed Signals: Sanctify Your Easter Bunny Basket with a Chocolate Cross

“Christianized Easter kitsch is not produced so that we might have a more meaningful Resurrection Sunday.”

Mixed Signals: Christians and the American Dream

“No matter what messaging floods the marketplace, no amount of access, fame, or world change will put our hearts at rest.”

Mixed Signals: Target Shooting for Non-Violent Types

“Shooting at their likenesses on targets is disrespectful of the glory that God has embedded upon humans made in His likeness.”

Mixed Signals: You Might as Well Abandon the Catholic Church

“It’s sort of hard to oppose a call for greater sincerity.”

Mixed Signals: Why Christianity Doesn’t Get the Sympathy Vote

“It would also do us good to remember that today’s underdog is tomorrow’s market leader — and vice versa.”

Mixed Signals: This Year’s Best Super Bowl Ad

Apple got a promotion for their device that was rooted in the here and now, in the reality of a heightened Super Bowl moment.

Mixed Signals: What the Christian Message Says to the Masses

Targeting a message to your “superfans” doesn’t mean that they are the only ones listening.

Mixed Signals: Newsweek and “Mad Men” Unite

Newsweek is smart to capitalize on the popularity of Mad Men

Mixed Signals: Special K’s Lose-Gain Philosophy

“…make sure you aren’t counting on an external fix for an internal issue.”