Christ and Pop Culture

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How should Christians respond to the latest web phenomenon, the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam?
Okay, just kidding.  There is no response other than “awww.”
For the more cynically inclined, will this win you over?

Collide Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Awards: The Best of 2008 - Ahem, you may want to vote for a certain website in a certain category.

My Columbus Crew won the MLS Cup…and I don’t want to hear any remarks from Ben Bartlett!

Ken Griffey Jr. becomes a Political Diplomat? Is there more to baseball than I thought, Ben Bartlett will answer me I am sure.

The internet is chock full of wise sages today. Drew Dixon nails it:
So would Paul play Playstation 3?  I think so.  But he would play Playstation 3 knowing that it doesn’t even touch the joy he has in Christ.  And he would probably throw it out the window if it started to distract him from [...]

Thabiti Anyabwile chimes in on the social networking debate with an incredibly insightful and evenhanded series of thoughts. You need to read the whole thing (not that long) but here’s the main points:

Technology can’t be used to build “community” for those who don’t have it.
We should avoid thinking of technology as in any way essential to [...]

One of my key arguments, as a Christian who voted for Obama, is that the pro-life crowd needs to focus on things other than winning elections… things like support for pregnant teen mothers, free ultrasounds in abortion clinics, etc. Well, it looks like those ideas may be coming to pass! I’m definitely curious about what [...]

An extensive new research study has found that unhappy people watch more TV while those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing.

Owen Strachan wrote a response to my article, “A Theology of Twitter.” Then I commented on that post. Then he blogged in response to that comment.