In reading Presbytera Frederica Mathewes-Green's article in this month's Christianity Today, I would just seek to correct her understanding of the plot of Capra's It Happened One Night which she cites as evidence of changing social mores: Ellie Andrews was another man's wife even if they had not consummated the marriage (and even if it is ultimately annulled), so Peter Warne's underlying premise is not that a couple will not have sex before marriage (the sixth commandment) -- but that men respected another man's wife (the ninth commandment, depending on how you number them), and they still tend to do so today. So, no real change in mores in that case.
As to the drunkenness, which she sees as being celebrated and encouraged by others in the movie, well, in the context of the opening scene, the drunk Warne has just been fired -- reason enough to get plowed -- and Warne is a reporter / journalist, a profession that is often so portrayed, at least in Capra's films.
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A couple of quotes that I liked --
"Every Christian should always have at his bedside at least one book that is at least 50 years old -- the older the better."
Presbytera Mathewes-Green quotes C. S. Lewis on the value of old books: We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the charateristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books.
Funny to me that the books of Lewis himself have become the "old books." His are certainly my "old books." But not my "oldest books"
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