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Not Fit for Dinner: Placing #ObamaInHistory“We can disagree about the connections made on the President biography pages, but we we would be mistaken to think that Obama is ahistorical and is leading America in a past-less present.”
The Televangelists: In Praise of Sherlock & its Co-Creator Steven Moffat“Here, then, is a brief tour through Moffat’s oeuvre of awesomeness.”
Sacred Space: What’s Wrong with Videogames in Church?“My objection to video games in church boils down to what makes a church.”
Grace Notes: My Bloody Valentine“Few bands can claim to have altered the musical landscape, much less charted out an entirely new landscape.”
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.”
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Do Americans Have the Right to TV?
Posted on May 5, 2008 | 2 CommentsDo Americans have the right to TV? Popular Mechanics gives some disturbing figures on how much the US government has spent on publicizing the switch from analog to digital TV. -
Rap Stars Help Spread the Gospel
Posted on April 29, 2008 | No CommentsMainstream rappers work to spread the Gospel while others criticize them for being felons. -
Grand Theft Auto IV: Boycott or Buy?
Posted on April 28, 2008 | 7 CommentsAlan Noble gives Grand Theft Auto a chance. -
Chattaway Reviews Expelled
Posted on April 25, 2008 | No CommentsPeter Chattaway reviews Expelled and finds it wanting. H.T. Overstreet. -
A Jew on Jesus on AI
Posted on April 23, 2008 | No CommentsThe Atheist Jew takes issue with American Idol’s “Shout to the Lord” episode: “I’ve admitted here before that I am an American Idol fan. But this year for some reason I’m noticing way too many Jesus songs. There are two possibilities here. One, the Christian... -
Shout to the Lord on AI: A Okay!
Posted on April 23, 2008 | No CommentsThink Christian runs a poll and finds that the vast majority of Christians approved of the “Shout to the Lord” American Idol episode. Also, what is our fascination with polls, people? -
American Idol and Hope for Worship Music
Posted on April 23, 2008 | No CommentsRichard Mouw, President of Fuller Seminary, finds hope for modern Worship music in American Idol: “I regularly hear folks complaining that “the great Christian hymns” are from a bygone era, and are only available in worn songbooks, unopened hymnals, and outdated albums. Yet, thanks to... -
American Idol Gives Back? Uh, Not Really…
Posted on April 22, 2008 | No CommentsAlan Knox muses about how little $60,000,000 really is considering American Idol’s audience. -
Josh Harris’ Inside Info on the Shout to the Lord Idol Episode
Posted on April 22, 2008 | No CommentsJosh Harris has the “Inside Scoop” on the Shout to the Lord fiasco. -
LA Times Believes that American Idol is in a Slump
Posted on April 22, 2008 | No CommentsThe LA Times reports that American Idol’s ratings are way down. Any ideas why? -
What To Do About Embarrassingly Bad Popular Christian Music
Posted on April 15, 2008 | 70 CommentsAlan Noble shares some practical ways for Christians everywhere to help improve the state of Christian music. -
Enjoying Culture without Being Consumed, Part 2
Posted on April 11, 2008 | 1 CommentAlan Noble concludes a two-part series on how we can keep from getting carried away by this whole Pop Culture thing. -
Enjoying Culture without Being Consumed
Posted on April 10, 2008 | 3 CommentsAlan Noble begins a two-part series on how we can keep from getting carried away by this whole Pop Culture thing. -
The Coming Economic Crisis and Why It Might Be A Blessing In Disguise
Posted on March 24, 2008 | 6 CommentsCould an economic collapse be just what our nation needs? -
The Expelled Fiasco
Posted on March 21, 2008 | No CommentsOverstreet posts a letter he received from someone who was at the now infamous Expelled screening which was crashed by Dawkins and the Internets explode with debate. -
A.G. Harmon from Image offers an interesting take on Amazing Grace.
Posted on March 15, 2008 | No CommentsA.G. Harmon from Image offers an interesting take on Amazing Grace. Harmon questions whether or not there are subtle political statements made throughout the film or whether he has been trained to anticipate such statements in all modern films. -
Worship Team Arrested for playing “Rock”
Posted on March 12, 2008 | 2 CommentsGranted, much modern “Praise and Worship music” is of poor quality, even bordering on the offensive at times, but this is going too far. -
What should Christian Musicians do?
Posted on March 12, 2008 | No CommentsLucas Kwong over at IMAGE explores the difficulties facing Christian musicians as rock music becomes increasingly stale. -
Brett McCracken reviews Expelled
Posted on March 4, 2008 | 6 CommentsBrett McCracken reviews Expelled: “It’s a film that very deliberately presents itself as an alternative type of film—the anti-Michael Moore, perhaps. It is trying to argue that there is (or should be) room at the table for both sides, for multiple arguments on any issue.... -
Reviewing the Critics: Can We Trust Secular Film Critics?
Posted on February 26, 2008 | 27 CommentsEditor of Movieguide, Tom Snyder writes,"Just because the secular movie critics and secular elites in Hollywood don’t like some of the movies we pick does not mean that they are really bad movies within the categories in which we pick them. In that sense, ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS was a very entertaining, uplifting family movie that kids would enjoy. The mainstream critics trashed it, but the American audience, many of whom still have strong vestiges of their Christian heritage, even though not all of them may understand essential Christian doctrines like the sinlessness of Christ and the biblical doctrine of salvation by grace through faith, not by works, seemed to like the movie very much."