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April 2012

April 13, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: The Coming ApocoPresidency?

"We should entertain the notion that non-religious leaders may very well be better situated for...

April 12, 2012

Mixed Signals: Skype's Campaign Wants to Bring Back Social Graces

"These campaign messages forget that most people are not using technology to replace human interaction...

April 11, 2012

What Memes Mean: Avoiding Scumbag Apologetics

"Quite a few of these photo-caption memes are quite regrettable, even embarrassing."

April 11, 2012

The Female Gaze: Susan B. Anthony and Me

"The problem I have with many of the recent legislature being passed is that it...

April 10, 2012

God and Country Music: What are we doing here? The ACM Awards and Evangelicalism

"it is the job of the individual to cut through the clutter and see what...

April 10, 2012

The Holy Huddle: The 2012 CaPC Theology Hoops Tournament Final Four Recap

"both the men's and women's tournaments reveal that religion still has a role in American...

April 09, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: The SBC's Richard Land and Charges of Politicizing Trayvon

"Calling attention to potential racial injustices and acknowledging our differences does not feed the racial...

April 09, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Mornings in Jenin and the Trouble with Meta-Narratives

"Growing up is often a process of realizing that anybody I consider the enemy, anybody...

April 07, 2012

Grace Notes: Ronnie & Jason Martin, the hardest working men in Christian music

"They've created two of the most singular and recognizable aesthetics in independent music, Christian or...

April 06, 2012

The Televangelist: Embracing Uncomfortable Characters

"If we are unable to demonstrate care and concern for television characters, it's likely that...

April 06, 2012

Sacred Space: Easter Breakthrough

"That's what the church has to offer culture: the resurrection from the dead through Jesus...

April 06, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: The Shock Value of Cain Solutions’ Animal Ads

"These commercials are far from the principles found in I Peter 3 of interacting with...

April 05, 2012

The Moviegoer: Jeff, Who Needs to Leave Home

"Responsibility involves both participation in, and recognition of, a larger order -- not one or...

April 05, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Annie Hall," Romance, and Real Love

"I get the feeling that remembering what was supposedly great is far more fun that...

April 05, 2012

Mixed Signals: Fast Phones Expose Your Inner Ugly

"Sometimes having the latest and greatest the market has to offer plays right into our...

April 04, 2012

Music at Mars Hill: Spotify and the Culmination of a Century of Commercial Music

"Have you ever thought about what the phonograph replaced? About what recorded music replaced?"

April 04, 2012

What Memes Mean: #Shamrocking McDonald's Attempt at Forcing Meme

"It appears that meme is something you just can’t force."

April 04, 2012

The Female Gaze: Great Expectations

"Your worth, our worth, is not determined by our bodies, or our seduction skills."

April 03, 2012

The Minority Report: Prom – iscuity

"No matter how fastidiously we have instilled a healthy sense of self worth in our...

April 03, 2012

God and Country Music: 'No Depression' in Heaven

"No Depression and the Church share the same stories of pain, sin and the human...

April 02, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Online Evangelism?

"How should we use the web to fulfill the Great Commission?"

April 02, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Pregnant Joggers, Black Kids in Hoodies, and the Strangers Among Us

"These are lessons that I need to teach my daughters, to be cautious and mindful,...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Sacred Space: Robert Schuller's Glass House

"The power of positive thinking has shattered on the altar of Schuller's church like so...

March 30, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: The Faith Policy of Rick Santorum

"Santorum's faith may be sound, but sound faith does not guarantee sound reason in foreign...

March 29, 2012

The Moviegoer: After the Final Kill — A Special Episode of "The Hunger Games"

"I can't help but wonder if 'Games' has its enthusiasts due to a deep-seated preference...

March 29, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Badlands" (Malick, 1973)

"The movie about a young spree-killer and his 'along for the ride' girl gives us...

March 29, 2012

Mixed Signals: Sanctify Your Easter Bunny Basket with a Chocolate Cross

"Christianized Easter kitsch is not produced so that we might have a more meaningful Resurrection...

March 28, 2012

What Memes Mean: #KONY2012 Pt. 2 or What Happened to Jason Russell?

"Why do so many people hate #KONY2012, Jason Russell, and Invisible Children so much?"

March 27, 2012

The Minority Report: An Apology for the Other Trayvon Martin

"If I were feeling spiteful, I could go flip through my small pool of Facebook...

March 27, 2012

God and Country Music: Purity & Party in Nashville

". . . both moralism and lawlessness occupy the same airwaves, reaching the same people."

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