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God and Country Music: The Anatomy of a Country Song“There are many high profile musicians bastardizing the rich tradition and form of country music for commercial gain.”
Play in Process: A Facebook Game about Jesus Made Me Look Like a Silly Christian“This Christian Facebook game has become a kind of series of bumper stickers, automatically slapped on the back of your car anytime you do anything remotely noteworthy.”
Citizenship Confusion: Breaking the Shopping Habit“The practice of shopping as entertainment can have serious consequences for believers”
How Should Christians Think About Gay Marriage?“Our prayer is that political stances will never detract from the only message that truly matters.”
The Moviegoer: Lucky Life is Like This“Lucky Life deals with suffering, friendship, marriage, memory, death, and faith — communicated in an image-driven, poetic style.”
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What Memes Mean: A Disheartening Meme On Introversion
Posted on May 2, 2012 | 6 Comments"Temperament is an integral part of this calling, a fascinating divine ordainment. It is something to be praised, properly understood, and developed, and never an excuse to avoid personal growth." -
The Minority Report: When Youth Pastors Should Go to Prison
Posted on May 1, 2012 | 6 Comments"True religious persecution is not something that can be simulated . . ." -
The Holy Huddle: Is Albert Pujols Baseball’s Job?
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No Comments"Is there any value in paying attention to how winners respond to losing?" -
God and Country Music: “Contemporary Christian Country Music”?
Posted on May 1, 2012 | 6 Comments" . . . the Phariscetical tone to a lot of Country radio’s “God-talk” is hard to ignore." -
Sports Violence and the Temple of God
Posted on May 1, 2012 | 2 CommentsIs the NFL a business of violence? -
Citizenship Confusion: Dan Savage Bullies Christians
Posted on April 30, 2012 | 29 Comments"[A]fter watching the video myself, I came a way less convinced that Savage had bullied anyone and more aware of Evangelical culture's tendency toward martyrdom." -
Books Besides the Bible: The Case for Franny and Zooey
Posted on April 30, 2012 | 3 Comments"Question: do we really need to give teenagers a book ["The Catcher in the Rye"] which is about exactly how teenagers tend to feel? . . . Enter Franny and Zooey. A lesser known Salinger novel[.]" -
The Kiddy Pool: Pregnancy, Ambivalence, and Faith
Posted on April 30, 2012 | 9 Comments"I write about this here because I don’t know how to reconcile the joy of my daughter’s impending arrival with the deep ambivalence I feel about this pregnancy." -
Grace Notes (Bandcamp Edition): Chalk Dinosaur, Lowtide, Garbage Man
Posted on April 28, 2012 | No Comments"For this edition of 'Grace Notes', I'm going to focus on a few gems that, if it weren't for Bandcamp, I never would've heard." -
The Televangelist: Battleground and the Interplay Between Politics and Personal Life
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No Comments"Battleground provides an unflinching look at the political world in a way that's less about idealism and politics than it is the personal impact that results from working in politics." -
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." -
Cory Booker and the Difficulty of Heroes
Posted on April 24, 2012 | 4 CommentsHow can we learn from the exceptional lives of our heroes without becoming discouraged?