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January 2013

January 07, 2013

Does Fashion Matter?

"Did you ever buy a certain piece of clothing because you were convinced it would...

January 03, 2013

Overweight People Live Longer? The Enduring Challenge of Self-Esteem Problems

As you might have heard from every news source not talking about the fiscal cliff,...

January 03, 2013

Where are humanists when it hurts?

But the larger question, of how groups such as the American Humanist Association can provide...

January 03, 2013

Movieguide: Rejecting God Leads to Murder by “Soulless Meat Machines”

Is it really so clear and easy to draw a line from our nation's declining...

January 02, 2013

Why Are Drivers Aiming for Turtles Crossing the Highway?

News outlets are reporting the results of a recent research experiment by Clemson University student...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Rest In Peace, “Amanat”

"How do we grieve for the people we don't know, have never met, and can...

December 31, 2012

Words We Used Too Much in 2012

"Have these words turned pesky in 2012? What words have you heard too much in...

December 28, 2012

Longing for Fiction

In his text Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, C. S. Lewis writes of fairy stories...

December 28, 2012

Does Russia Truly Care for the Fatherless?

Russia is one of the primary sources for international adoptions for U.S. families. In the...

December 24, 2012

Top 5 Austrian Christmas Traditions

This Christmas is quite a unique one for me-- I am spending it in Graz,...

December 21, 2012

Is Homework an Advantage for the Rich?

In this week’s The New Yorker, Louis Menard writes about the French president’s efforts...

December 17, 2012

Is Sandy Hook a Sign that We need a Christian Culture? Or a Savior?

I'm not sure it's helpful to use tragedies like Sandy Hook as examples of what...

December 17, 2012

Gossiping About a Mass Murderer

The news media's coverage of awful events like the Newtown shootings has often felt more...

December 12, 2012

Can We Solve the Unemployment Crisis by Working Less?

Yesterday I came across an article by Juliet Schor that was published in Yes! last year....

December 12, 2012

Brace Yourself: ‘Tis the Season for Year-end Lists

Indeed, there are so many year-end lists that sometimes, it can be rather daunting to...

December 11, 2012

What ‘Shoot Christians Say’ says about the next generation of evangelicals.

This video made me squirm. It was so dead on and so disturbing. The...

December 07, 2012

What Would You Do If You Saw a Man about to Be Crushed by a Subway?

Beyond the obvious journalistic ethics at play in this tragedy, an event like this naturally...

December 06, 2012

Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Purpose of the Universe

It is arrogant to believe that purpose of the universe was to bring about carbon-based...

December 05, 2012

What Does the Victoria’s Secret PINK Collection Say about Us?

"If a woman doesn't want to be seen as a sexual object in everyday life,...

December 04, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Playtime: A Neutral Zone

"Our gender expression can be a beautiful and significant part of our selves, but it...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Kim Jong Un: Sexiest Man Alive (or, We’re Not Here to Judge, China)

The Onion has finally done it. I am pretty sure that this was the plan...

November 29, 2012

What Can the Church Offer Victims of Abuse and Violence?

It’s no easy task addressing serious issues such as abuse and violence. Even within the...

November 28, 2012

God and Country Music: The Country Music Culture Wars

Country music, since its inception, has been a (if not the) voice of rural, white...

November 27, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: The Nutcracker, Inside Out

"... I too had been swept into the magic of Nutcracker’s world, my daughter’s world,...

November 26, 2012

Hobby Lobby, Contraception, and the Morning After Pill

This is a two-fold villainy: it's a violation of free market, and worse, it's a...

November 26, 2012

Tracking Devices: Satan In Our Schools?

I can’t say for sure if these tracking devices are Satanic, but I certainly find...

November 21, 2012

Science Explains Why We Love to Suffer on Black Friday

There are some people for whom the enjoyment of Black Friday is essentially hardwired into...

November 20, 2012

Problematic Poetry about Precious Puritans

"If we refuse to acknowledge the truths of White Privilege, race and cultural disparity how...

November 20, 2012

Hipster Bashing, Ironic Living, and Seeing the World Through the Eyes of A Child

We fear that we've become monotonous, boring, and irrelevant, and so we respond to that...

November 20, 2012

Pride & Gender Roles: Demythologizing Marital Income Disparity

Getting a job in a competitive, capitalist society is a lot like playing dodge ball...

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