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What Memes Mean: Muppet Political DiscourseLiving in an age where even Muppets offer political criticism ought to inspire us to speak better.
Music at Mars Hill: Lessons From Leonard Cohen“Old Ideas”‘ simplicity and focus on songwriting feels refreshing.
When Games Matter: Arkham City and Seamless Storytelling“This moment in Arkham City gives me hope because it was a moment of truth. A moment when the world worked as it should and my determination to save it was tested.”
Two Can Play at That: What Komen Can Teach Us about Boycotts (Updated)Is it justified, even heroic, to use power to force our will on others?
Citizenship Confusion: Pamela Geller Abuses a Murder“Voices like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are very dangerous, particular for Christians and conservatives”
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Check Your Facts: World Net Daily and The Obama Deception
Posted on April 12, 2011 | 1 CommentLast week, WorldNetDaily published an article by Jack Cashill, author of the book Deconstructing Obama, which alleged that a photo of the president and his grandparents taken in Central Park was actually a photoshop forgery. According to Cashill, the significance of this forgery is that... -
Citizenship Confusion: Confessed Abortion? How Will We Respond?
Posted on April 11, 2011 | No CommentsIf we want to fight abortion, we first have to love those who seek them. -
What Memes Mean: “Shine” by Final Placement
Posted on April 9, 2011 | No CommentsChristian music is often quite bad. High school garage bands are also often quite bad. Youth group bands comprised of high schoolers are nearly always bad (hyperbole). One Christian Rock band became famous last February when their music video was picked up by the website... -
Citizenship Confusion: Christian Culture as a Stumbling Block
Posted on April 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsEvery Monday in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and the world. Nearly two years ago now I wrote an article for this site entitled, Rethinking The Stumbling Block: Christian Culture as a Barrier. Since that time, I have come... -
What Memes Mean: “Baby Got Book”
Posted on April 2, 2011 | 8 CommentsEach Saturday in What Memes Mean, Alan Noble questions the significance, humor, and subtexts of viral videos, memes, and other Internet fads. Although “Baby Got Book” was first posted on YouTube in 2007, it still occasionally gets posted and sent around the Internet. The lyrics... -
Citizenship Confusion: The Death Penalty in Illinois
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsEvery Monday in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and the world. Gail Rice, a adult literacy specialist and Christian who has worked in the prison system for 30 years, wrote an article for Think Christian entitled How God’s justice... -
Citizenship Confusion: Wearing Our Faith
Posted on March 21, 2011 | No CommentsEvery Monday in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and the world. Can you believe that Christ Pop Culture has been around for going on four years? If you’re new to the site you probably can. But for those... -
Citizenship Confusion: The Problem with Praying for Soldiers
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 7 CommentsEvery Monday in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and the world. A year or so ago, one of our regular commenters posted an article that caused me to seriously question how I thought about war and our nation.... -
Are We Entitled to Our Entitlement Programs?
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 4 CommentsWhether it's a government handout or the fruit of our labor, we aren't entitled to any of it. -
Citizenship Confusion: Budget Cuts and Our Calling
Posted on March 7, 2011 | No CommentsA Christian group called The Center for Public Justice has publicly issued “A Call for Intergenerational Justice.” In this document, the writers claim that their commitment is to finding a solution to the debt crisis without causing the poor to suffer: How our governments and we... -
Citizenship Confusion: Peter Berger’s Thoughts on Religion in the Military
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsPeter Berger raises some interesting questions in a recent blog post about religion in the military. Specifically, he considers the role of chaplains in the military and how their function as clergy can come in conflict with their role as military personnel. He tells a fascinating... -
Baby Disney
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 4 CommentsA report in the New York times about a new initiative by Disney to market to mothers raises some interesting questions, for me at least. I am increasingly becoming convinced that one of the greatest threats to the church is the various effects of consumerism. Whenever we... -
Leaning Forward: How Updating Your Apps Reflects Who You Are
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 1 CommentAlan Noble explores what an obsession with new technology and media might reveal about us. -
Facebook Making us Depressed?
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 4 CommentsRussell Moore, who has become my favorite Baptist after John, recently wrote a helpful post on a study which claimed that logging onto Facebook can make you depressed. The key is that since people on Facebook almost exclusively post things that make them and their... -
“The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists” and what they have to do with pop culture
Posted on January 24, 2011 | 1 CommentIn this list of The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists by superscholar.org, there are some interesting entries. Of course, the usual, popular new atheists are listed: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens. But the list also includes a few more obscure and... -
“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”–Maybe…
Posted on January 23, 2011 | 4 CommentsThis article in the Wall Street Journal recently caused quite a stir when the author, Amy Chua, argued that Chinese mothers are superior to Western mothers because they drive their kids to excel at what they do instead of inflating their egos and setting them up for... -
RetroPost: Fallout 3 & The Challenge of a Gaming Morality
Posted on October 19, 2010 | 1 CommentWhat does it mean for a game to tell us what gives us good "Karma"? -
Making Games of War
Posted on September 14, 2010 | No CommentsThe latest videogame to renew the classic argument about violence and desensitization is EA’s Medal of Honor, which allows players to take on the role of soldiers fighting in Afghanistan in the recent past. In addition to the question of whether or not it is... -
Haggling with Hawking
Posted on September 8, 2010 | No CommentsThis Tuesday, Stephen Hawking’s new book The Grand Design was released and has made some waves on blogs and various news sources. It appears that Hawking makes a claim in his new book that there is no need for God since we can explain the... -
Mosquerading as the Truth: The (near) Ground Zero “Mosque” and Political Rhetoric
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 23 CommentsThe argument sounds reasonable, until you consider what it means.