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Archive for June, 2008
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The GTA 7 Step Program
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsMatt Selman tries to break his addiction: “Video Games are as much a drug as heroin or crystal meth, in that when you play them, you feel GREAT. I defy any to drug user to say the sensation of sitting back in your couch as... -
Hint: It Comes Before the Fall
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsWhat I Learned in Reality TV School: “It amounted to a three-hour lesson in cultivating narcissism—being one’s self as noisily as possible.” -
Jesus for President
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsJesus for President They’re spiritual misfits. Rabble-rousers. They packed the shell of the old Baptist church on Negley Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to hear author, Christian activist and fellow misfit Shane Claiborne stump on the campaign for a third party candidate, Jesus. -
Nothing Ever Happens the Same Way Twice?! Seriously?!
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsWhy Aslan Is the Worst Thing About Prince Caspian – Lev Grossman hits the nail on the head: “If I had a problem with the movie, it’s the same problem I have with the book, which is what the hell is Aslan doing playing peekaboo... -
More about the Obama/Dobson Feud
Posted on June 30, 2008 | 3 CommentsMore about the Obama/Dobson Feud From the Washington Post: If Christian conservatives want to be taken seriously, they need to make serious arguments and speak with intellectual integrity. In this instance, Dobson didn’t. He has set back his cause and made some of us who... -
Bringing God’s Word To Every Cultural Sphere
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsBringing God’s Word To Every Cultural Sphere -
Grin and Bear It
Posted on June 30, 2008 | 1 CommentRolling Stone takes on Joel Osteen. -
Enter Into the Great and Disturbing Silence
Posted on June 30, 2008 | 21 CommentsA documentary about monks challenges Bill Reichart to sit down and shut up every once and a while. Now, Bill challenges us to do the same. -
Spain Wins Euro2008
Posted on June 30, 2008 | 3 CommentsSpain wins Euro2008 with a 1-0 victory over Germany. -
Christian College Students Don’t Know Christianity
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsChristian College Students Don’t Know Christianity. That’s the thought of Barbara Brown Taylor’s insightful article. She teaches at Piedmont College and Columbia Theological Seminary. -
Opera and Religion – Oil and Water?
Posted on June 30, 2008 | No CommentsOpera and Religion – oil and water? So many of the operas we perform today take biblical or otherwise religiously-themed subjects as their starting points. -
The “God & Caesar” Conference
Posted on June 29, 2008 | No CommentsThe “God & Caesar” Conference. “Politics is a serious issue for Christians,” the Vatican said, “an essential place and fundamental instrument to build a society worthy of man.” -
Dark Knight Selling Out Three Weeks Early
Posted on June 28, 2008 | No CommentsDark Knight Selling Out Three Weeks Early -
I’m pretty sure it’s “Mario Mario”
Posted on June 27, 2008 | No Comments“Nintendo is, well, almost the most fun a kid can have!” – a remarkable 1988 Inside Edition news report on the Nintendo phenomenon. BONUS: Hilarious Bill O’ Reilly Cameo! -
Bleeding Love
Posted on June 27, 2008 | No CommentsSome of you may wince at So You Think You Can Dance, but I’m pretty sure this dance brilliantly demonstrates the concept of dance as art. When my wife and I were watching this we were just astounded. -
A CAPC Dialogue: Violence in Blood Meridian
Posted on June 27, 2008 | 3 CommentsIn the first installment of a CAPC dialogue, Alan Noble and Carissa Smith discuss whether or not the violence in Blood Meridian is good or helpful. -
Does FOtF Relish Unnecessary Condemnation?
Posted on June 27, 2008 | 1 CommentAn open letter to employees at Focus on the Family and Boundless, from Jeffrey Overstreet. -
Overstreet and Stanton
Posted on June 26, 2008 | 1 CommentJeffery Overstreet interviews Andrew Stanton, the writer and director of Wall•E -
Do Hard Things…Like Read a Book!
Posted on June 26, 2008 | 6 CommentsDavid Dunham invites you to turn off the television and... well, you know. -
Fatalities Intact!
Posted on June 25, 2008 | No CommentsFatalities Intact for Mortal Kombat vs DC. Yay?