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Glenn Beck Wants You to Leave Your Church – If you hear the words “social justice,” run!
“I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are [...]

The story behind Oscar’s “Kanye moment” – This is both fascinating and sad.

The Curator analyzes Up In the Air:
Up In The Air gets so many of our modern conundrums right that it’s hard not to classify it as a tragedy, even with some great laughs. The film explores themes of corporate greed, alienation, infidelity, and much more, but the dilemmas that really triggered further reflection were the [...]

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Here’s an hour long interview with Christian cultural critic Ken Myers

Remember Six Days in Fallujah, the video game based on real life war events? They’re looking for a publisher, and Micahael Abbott says someone should Step up and get it out there.

An article from the inaugural issue of the Jewish Review of Books explores why so few fantasy writers have been Jewish:
To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion. If the former is individualistic, magical, and salvationist, the latter is collective, technical, and this-worldly. Judaism’s divine drama [...]

President Obama draws fire for his support of the complete lay-off of the staff at a failing Rhode Island School. This school had a terrible graduation rate and a 7% passage rate on state math tests. The article mentions some of President Obama’s education policies. Though I don’t line up with his ideas completely, I [...]

A church in Phoenix is told they can no longer serve the homeless and needy at their church building because it threatens the safety of their community…what do you think?

Russell Moore, from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes about Misguided Christian Outrage

Twitter’s passive aggressive plague.

Fire up the Netflix Queue. It’s The Arts & Faith Top 100 Films.

Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir responded to criticisms and questions about his manhood.

Eve Tushnet on the movie that The Last Station could have been:
Jesus himself said that following Him would mean putting aside family ties: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my [...]

Can Jim Halpert save America?

Christian Olympians: You Can Be Christian and Competitive – Those who heard our discussion on this podcast about the Olympics may find this article an interesting follow-up.

A Wall Street Journal reporter believes that hunger can be conquered and that the church is the most important player in the fight.

If you haven’t already heard of Chat Roulette, it’s probably safer to watch this video than go there yourself…

Whose Bible is it Anyway? Who is the ultimate authority over what is true?  How does that affect what we think and believe?