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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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Sacred Space: Feeding the Poor
Posted on April 27, 2012 | 1 Comment"Charity is never that easy, and anyone who has ever worked with the poor knows that a total shutdown of any kind of safety net would be a disaster, and yet they also know that there are some who abuse the system." -
Eat Your Vegetables: The First Rule of Fighting Yourself…
Posted on April 26, 2012 | 3 Comments"If I buy what the film's selling, then the only consolation I have is that at least I feel alive as the flames melt me." -
The Moviegoer: Better Moral Discernment Requires the Cultivation of the Imagination
Posted on April 26, 2012 | 7 Comments"If mature moviegoers are truly concerned with discernment, then they'd better start cultivating finer imaginations that are oriented in such a way so as to desire what is good." -
Mixed Signals: Giving Grace to the Airline Industry
Posted on April 26, 2012 | 1 Comment"No one is perfect. Not even the airline industry." -
Music at Mars Hill: Does Tupac’s Hologram Honor the Past?
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments"Is this the beginning of a creepy new trend to keep celebrities alive for as long as we please?" -
What Memes Mean: What If Memes Were Art?
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments"But the larger idea of 'beauty' has an unavoidable element of subjectivity to it in most cases, which is one of the difficulties in defining art as wholly objective." -
The Holy Huddle: “Metta” Cognition And The Rush To Speak Out
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No Comments"If Metta World Peace is harmed, it will be as a result of his own actions---not by the NBA's impulsiveness." -
The Minority Report: Facebook and The “Loneliest” Generation
Posted on April 24, 2012 | 2 Comments"So if you are one of the many people who hates Facebook, here is something worth considering: perhaps you are using it poorly." -
God and Country Music: In Memory of Levon Helm
Posted on April 24, 2012 | 1 Comment"I am in awe of the refinement that Helm’s suffering created in his music over the years and I wonder at the fruit of him taking his Southern sound to a new land where it was received for it’s beauty, authenticity and simplicity." -
The Kiddy Pool: Mind, Body, and Breast—Public Discourses on Breastfeeding
Posted on April 23, 2012 | 7 Comments"Lactation is not a disability; it’s a choice, yet it points to larger social discomforts about women generally and mothers specifically." -
Citizenship Confusion: David Barton’s Deception (or Ignorance)
Posted on April 23, 2012 | 5 Comments"Barton is either very deceptive or incredibly ignorant, and in either case he is not a man that Christians should be relying on for a historical justification of their political movement." -
The Televangelist: The New Girl and the Challenge of Maturity
Posted on April 20, 2012 | No Comments"If they really wanted The New Girl to become a success, they would have to step up their game. The show would have to mature - and in order for that to happen, so would the characters." -
Not Fit for Dinner: Morally Unfit for War in Afghanistan
Posted on April 20, 2012 | 8 Comments"The leaked photographs from this week give clear evidence that too many American soldiers are no longer fit and disciplined to conduct war justly." -
Sacred Space: Doug Wilson, the Church Is a Bride, Bro
Posted on April 20, 2012 | 27 Comments"If that sort of intimacy makes a man nervous, then he might have forgotten that he is part of the bride of Christ." -
The Moviegoer: Slashing the Voyeur’s View of “The Cabin in the Woods”
Posted on April 19, 2012 | 8 Comments"What if the protective one-way mirror that supports the slasher sub-genre's one-dimensional characters and our demand that they be relentlessly sexualized and punished was, in a sense, broken -- or, at least, turned inside out?" -
Mixed Signals: T-Mobile’s Good Girl Goes Edgy but Do Customers Care?
Posted on April 19, 2012 | 1 Comment"The question is if edgy-and-fast is the key decision factor customers consult when selecting mobile companies." -
What Memes Mean: The Re-Appropriation of Ryan Gosling
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No Comments"Why do we feel we have the right to re-appropriate anything we want in the digital realm, even an entire person?" -
The Female Gaze: Moving the Spotlight
Posted on April 18, 2012 | 5 Comments"There is more to me than my womanhood, and there is more to me than how I looked in the mirror this morning." -
Music at Mars Hill: A Day in the Life of Big K.R.I.T.
Posted on April 18, 2012 | 1 Comment"In a single day we are presented with the all the big choices that reveal our inner character: between faithfulness and lust, truth and lies, heaven and hell, life and death." -
The Minority Report: Mobile Manners
Posted on April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments". . . If we don't ever force ourselves to put up our phones and be available to those around us, we may never be available to them"