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December 2010

December 09, 2010

Driscoll on Talking to his Children about Santa

A few years ago, I wrote a misguided and somewhat scathing post on my personal...

December 01, 2010

Grilled Cheesus or the Absent God?

Timothy Dalrymple asks: My doctoral dissertation was devoted to Kierkegaard, and among the manifold influences...

November 2010

November 18, 2010

Bristol, We Have a Situation.

Can I assume that everyone has seen Bristol Palin and "The Situation's" safe sex PSA?...

November 02, 2010

Entering into a film like a child

Filmwell's Ron Reed discusses an interesting way of looking at movies: Sister Rose Pacatte writes...

November 01, 2010

The Nastiest Election Ever!(?)

Every election cycle we hear about how nasty the discourse of our politics has become....

October 2010

October 20, 2010

Playing Human in a Video Game

Check out my latest column for GameSetWatch: Gaming and Confronting Our Humanity It's possible to...

October 19, 2010

Must our Art be Uplifting?

Flannery O'Conner responds to an accusation from a reader that her stories were not meeting...

October 18, 2010

In Praise of the New Republic

I wanted to bring attention to the article "The Moral Case for Soaking the Rich"...

October 18, 2010

Makoto Fujimura: "A Letter to North American Churches"

Acclaimed artist Makoto Fujimura has written "A Letter to North American Churches" regarding the often...

October 14, 2010

Tea Party Racists…or Elite Condescention?

A study of signs held at a recent Tea Party rally show that 5% mentioned...

October 14, 2010

Don't Not Pray for Christopher Hitchens

September 20th was "Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day". The writer and well-known atheist has cancer...

October 13, 2010

6 Relatively New Albums Worth Listening To

It seems like a lot of good music has been released lately and I have...

October 13, 2010

I Need The Darkness

A song from Arcade Fire's latest puts things into perspective.

October 12, 2010

John Mark Reynolds on the "Yoga Wars"

Over at The Scriptorium, John Mark Reynolds of Biola University writes a response to the...

October 07, 2010

The Yoga Wars

On Facebook, someone asked me: "What do YOU think of the Yoga Wars?" Here's my...

October 07, 2010

Poser Christianity

Dr. James K.A. Smith offers a critique of Brett McCracken's Hipster Christianity, insisting that McCracken...

October 06, 2010

Pop music with a "spirit-penetrating totality"?

I'm still making up my mind concerning Sufjan Stevens' The Age of Adz (for the...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Survivor and Games as a Mirror to Ourselves

On the latest episode of survivor, something kind of shocking happened. Naonka made quite a...

September 29, 2010

Apparently Evangelicals Don't Know Nothin' about Religion

You have probably heard the news, you may have even taken the test, but apparently...

September 27, 2010

Boys, Reading, and Video Games

Thomas Spence's Wall Street Journal piece "How to Raise Boys Who Read: Not with Gross-out...

September 24, 2010

If Outsourced was outsourced it would be significantly better.

Did Outsourced ever stand a chance of being funny? Maybe. It could have defied expectations...

September 22, 2010

I Love My Church!

I am a big fan of my church. Its not perfect mind you, no local...

September 21, 2010

Wait, What was The Event Again?

After watching The Event, I think I'm hooked, at least for a few more episodes....

September 20, 2010

Is a New Moral Code in Order?

On CNN.com Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate suggest, "Our moral code is out of date."...

September 16, 2010

When Google Doesn't Meet Your Religious Standards

Surfers who are concerned about being potentially morally and spiritually contaminated by Google's search results...

September 16, 2010

Tragedy in the Shadow of a Milestone

Last week the Cincinnati Reds celebrated the 25th anniversary of 4192—the number of career hits...

September 15, 2010

Why Parenthood is Better

I prefer Parenthood over Modern Family. I believe it is a better show and that...

September 15, 2010

"Hipster Christians": An Analysis

I am a rebel! What can I say? There I sat in the dimly lit...

September 14, 2010

Making Games of War

The latest videogame to renew the classic argument about violence and desensitization is EA's Medal...

September 13, 2010

Red Dead Redemption and Squandered Potential

The first article I wrote about Red Dead Redemption was on the heels of experiencing...

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