Drew
Walter Dellinger asks, “If Violent Video Games are Ok, Are Contraception Videos , Too?”
“You Write Like a Girl” Abby Farson Pratt believes that there is a “qualitative prejudice in our society against women’s ability to create art.”
“Hail to the Housewife” Libby Copeland of Slate asks, does Michele Bachmann’s political drive clash with her evangelical convictions?
Danielle Mayfield reflects on parenting girls and fighting princess propaganda.
Monday is Independence Day–so I thought you should reflect on the excellent questions Derek Thomas brings up in this article.
Jason
Wired wants you to imagine what the future of churches could look like.
What was your very first online handle/alias, and why did you choose it? (For the record, mine was “nekros”, which seemed appropriate for all of the Christian goth forums and chatrooms that I frequented circa 1998.)
“In politics, it is not the purpose of Christians to favor Christianity.”
Rich
One mom shares how she decided whether to let her sons play Call of Duty: Black Ops. We’re glad she didn’t, though we don’t think all first-person shooters are all bad.
I got to interview the guy who made the iPhone app, Strange Rain!
Paste Magazine is (kind of) back!
Child of Eden, according to, well, me, is a game about accepting your place in the universe.
What Christians can respect about… Slutwalks?!
Have a good weekend, I’ll be listening to some music here if you need me!
Alan
A therapist who helps keep homosexuals in the closet? Interesting implications and questions for the Church’s ministry to homosexuals.
Tim Keller on our motivation for social justice. Right now Keller is easily my favorite conservative Christian voice on social justice and mercy ministries. He always shows how the Gospel should naturally evoke in us a desire for justice and compassion.
I have # in my hashtags so I can tag while I #. An interesting write up on the nature of hashtags.
Alan Noble (Co-Founder/Editor) is a graduate student at Baylor University pursuing his Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature. To feed himself and his wife, he teaches Freshman Composition at the university. In 2006, he graduated from Cal. State Bakersfield with a Master’s degree in English. In addition to studying, teaching, and writing, Alan enjoys watching college basketball (Go Bears!) and NBA games with his wife and daughter, and loves Star Wars. While not particularly good at making art of any kind, Alan has an intense interest in the arts and culture and how believers ought to interact with them to the glory of God and edification of others. Alan lives in Waco, Texas with his Math-loving wife, owl-loving daughter, and their no-longer-able-to-skateboard-because-of-an-injury English Bulldog, Gertrude.
Email: noble.noneuclidean [at] gmail [dot] com
