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June 2012

June 04, 2012

Me, Jessica Simpson, and The Postpartum Road to Recovery

"Why do we love to look at pregnant women but still expect new mothers to...

June 01, 2012

The Televangelists: Game of Thrones and the Postmagic World

"I can’t help but wonder if Game of Thrones has succeeded because it shares a...

June 01, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: A Better Amercia With Mitt

"Stories like #ObamaInHistory and #Amercia are interesting (and funny, to some extent), but they do...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Grace Notes: M83, Infinity Shred

M83's super-powered kids reunite, Infinity Shred ventures into deep space.

May 31, 2012

Mixed Signals: Kraft Mac & Cheese on Generational Sin

"This Kraft ad speaks to our sin nature and how the behaviors of one generation...

May 31, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Where are the Wild Things?

"Where the Wild Things Are is not a kids’ film. It’s an adult film about...

May 30, 2012

The Female Gaze: Penny Plays Halo

"How often do average Americans get to really engage their imaginations?"

May 30, 2012

Music at Mars Hill: mewithoutYou and Why We Should Tell More Stories

"Maybe we need to start telling more stories."

May 30, 2012

The Holy Huddle: Checking in on Christians in Sports

"Bible-believing, Gospel-bearing sports figures are some of the main players (pun intended) in the furthering...

May 29, 2012

God and Country Music: Jim White: Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus

"As the film progresses it becomes clear that the hinge of this thing called the...

May 28, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Alienation and the Christian Ethic of Shopping at Threadless, Etsy, and Trades of Hope

"Our contemporary market creates a number of problems for Christians. Primarily, it alienates the worker...

May 28, 2012

The Moviegoer: "Bully" Explores the Hatred of the "Other"

"Bully is effective in that it gives a significant voice to a problem that is...

May 28, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Christ and the Gothic

"Like all fantastic fiction, the Gothic novel at its best serves to expand our imaginations,...

May 25, 2012

The Televangelist: Community's Advanced Observation and Introduction to Participation

We all face the complicated relationship between bemused observation and earnest participation.

May 25, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: President Obama, Arrogant or Bold?

"Discussions like this require you to make judgment upon another, and it’s well to recall...

May 24, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Adaptation (2002)

"For all of this witty meta-one-upsmanship, Adaptation does make two thought provoking points: adaptation involves...

May 24, 2012

Grace Notes: 8-bit Radiohead, Cam Butler, Richard Hawley

Radiohead gets chiptuned, Cam Butler crafts soundtracks for mental movies, and Richard Hawley gets unabashedly...

May 23, 2012

The Holy Huddle: What Elders Can Learn from Larry Bird

"Bird is an overseer—he sees what needs to be done and acts accordingly."

May 23, 2012

The Female Gaze: Dear North Carolina

"The reality is that long-term relationships can and do occur outside of marriage."

May 22, 2012

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...

May 22, 2012

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...

May 21, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Breaking the Shopping Habit

"The practice of shopping as entertainment can have serious consequences for believers"

May 21, 2012

The Moviegoer: Lucky Life is Like This

"Lucky Life deals with suffering, friendship, marriage, memory, death, and faith -- communicated in an...

May 21, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Are You Dad Enough?

"Let’s shift the conversations on parenthood away from polemical and prescriptive and try to keep...

May 21, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Is Science Fiction un-Christian?

"[T]he presence of humanity and the prevalence of humanitarian themes throughout the best science fiction...

May 18, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: Placing #ObamaInHistory

"We can disagree about the connections made on the President biography pages, but we we...

May 18, 2012

The Televangelists: In Praise of Sherlock & its Co-Creator Steven Moffat

"Here, then, is a brief tour through Moffat’s oeuvre of awesomeness."

May 18, 2012

Sacred Space: What's Wrong with Videogames in Church?

"My objection to video games in church boils down to what makes a church."

May 17, 2012

Grace Notes: My Bloody Valentine

"Few bands can claim to have altered the musical landscape, much less charted out an...

May 17, 2012

Mixed Signals: How to Make a Proper Apology

"Learning to make a proper apology is one of those indispensable life skills that we...

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