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April 2012

April 30, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Dan Savage Bullies Christians

"[A]fter watching the video myself, I came a way less convinced that Savage had bullied...

April 30, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: The Case for Franny and Zooey

"Question: do we really need to give teenagers a book ["The Catcher in the Rye"]...

April 30, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Pregnancy, Ambivalence, and Faith

"I write about this here because I don’t know how to reconcile the joy of...

April 28, 2012

Grace Notes (Bandcamp Edition): Chalk Dinosaur, Lowtide, Garbage Man

"For this edition of 'Grace Notes', I'm going to focus on a few gems that,...

April 27, 2012

The Televangelist: Battleground and the Interplay Between Politics and Personal Life

"Battleground provides an unflinching look at the political world in a way that's less about...

April 27, 2012

Sacred Space: Feeding the Poor

"Charity is never that easy, and anyone who has ever worked with the poor knows...

April 26, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: The First Rule of Fighting Yourself…

"If I buy what the film's selling, then the only consolation I have is that...

April 26, 2012

The Moviegoer: Better Moral Discernment Requires the Cultivation of the Imagination

"If mature moviegoers are truly concerned with discernment, then they'd better start cultivating finer imaginations...

April 26, 2012

Mixed Signals: Giving Grace to the Airline Industry

"No one is perfect. Not even the airline industry."

April 25, 2012

Music at Mars Hill: Does Tupac's Hologram Honor the Past?

"Is this the beginning of a creepy new trend to keep celebrities alive for as...

April 25, 2012

What Memes Mean: What If Memes Were Art?

"But the larger idea of 'beauty' has an unavoidable element of subjectivity to it in...

April 24, 2012

The Holy Huddle: "Metta" Cognition And The Rush To Speak Out

"If Metta World Peace is harmed, it will be as a result of his own...

April 24, 2012

The Minority Report: Facebook and The "Loneliest" Generation

"So if you are one of the many people who hates Facebook, here is something...

April 24, 2012

God and Country Music: In Memory of Levon Helm

"I am in awe of the refinement that Helm’s suffering created in his music over...

April 23, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Mind, Body, and Breast—Public Discourses on Breastfeeding

"Lactation is not a disability; it’s a choice, yet it points to larger social discomforts...

April 23, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: David Barton's Deception (or Ignorance)

"Barton is either very deceptive or incredibly ignorant, and in either case he is not...

April 20, 2012

The Televangelist: The New Girl and the Challenge of Maturity

"If they really wanted The New Girl to become a success, they would have to...

April 20, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: Morally Unfit for War in Afghanistan

"The leaked photographs from this week give clear evidence that too many American soldiers are...

April 20, 2012

Sacred Space: Doug Wilson, the Church Is a Bride, Bro

"If that sort of intimacy makes a man nervous, then he might have forgotten that...

April 19, 2012

The Moviegoer: Slashing the Voyeur's View of "The Cabin in the Woods"

"What if the protective one-way mirror that supports the slasher sub-genre's one-dimensional characters and our...

April 19, 2012

Mixed Signals: T-Mobile's Good Girl Goes Edgy but Do Customers Care?

"The question is if edgy-and-fast is the key decision factor customers consult when selecting mobile...

April 18, 2012

What Memes Mean: The Re-Appropriation of Ryan Gosling

"Why do we feel we have the right to re-appropriate anything we want in the...

April 18, 2012

The Female Gaze: Moving the Spotlight

"There is more to me than my womanhood, and there is more to me than...

April 18, 2012

Music at Mars Hill: A Day in the Life of Big K.R.I.T.

"In a single day we are presented with the all the big choices that reveal...

April 17, 2012

The Minority Report: Mobile Manners

". . . If we don't ever force ourselves to put up our phones and...

April 17, 2012

The Holy Huddle: Petrino and Guillen, A Tale of Two Coaches

"When leaders fail to take care of their personal business, it taints the very structure...

April 16, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen, and Going Beyond the "Mommy Wars"

"The dichotomy between mothers who work outside the home and those who don’t is false,...

April 16, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: NOT Finding God in Literature

"To treat literature as it is (a story) rather than converting it into something it...

April 14, 2012

Grace Notes: Lifeformed, C-jeff

"One of my favorite musical 'genres' in recent months has been video game soundtracks."

April 13, 2012

The Televangelist: How Community Makes Pillow Fights Matter

"Community manages to illuminate a central hidden truth about human relations: Small things matter."

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