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April 2013

April 22, 2013

How Should We Handle Tragedy In The Digital Age?

Do these posts actually provide any legitimate value for the victims, or for those working...

April 22, 2013

What If The Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects Weren’t White?

America still has an immature understanding of what it means to consider all Americans truly...

April 22, 2013

Skepticism for Christianity: Why Doubt is our Best Friend

"If we take time to study more than just answers from a textbook, but the...

April 19, 2013

Wise as Serpents: Making Too Much of Abortion and Polygamy

What do Westboro Baptist Church, a liberal columnist at Slate arguing for polygamy, and abortionist...

April 19, 2013

Notes from the Margins: Dove Makes us Feel Great in All the Wrong Ways

Each week in Notes From the Margins, D.L. Mayfield writes about the kingdom of God, marginalized...

April 17, 2013

Philosophers for Hire? “Marketable” Majors and the Question of Christian Vocation

When people joke (usually good-naturedly) about the perceived irrelevance of English majors (or other liberal...

April 17, 2013

Justin Bieber & the Dangers of Being Famous too Early

Back when my wife and I used to watch American Idol with her family every...

April 16, 2013

Podcast #117: The Gosnell Tragedy, How Sex Affects Faith, “Accidental Racist”

Every week on the Christ and Pop Culture Podcast, various Christ and Pop Culture writers...

April 15, 2013

A Tale of Two Women: Lilly Pulitzer and Margaret Thatcher

"The strange thing about death is how it inspires many of the living to speak...

April 15, 2013

Painting Pinterest in a Positive Light

Let's pretend, for a moment, that it's 5 o'clock on a weeknight and you have...

April 15, 2013

The Unthinkable Reality of Human Trafficking and What You Can Do About It

"We may not see this sort of slavery in the open, but it is there,...

April 11, 2013

‘Who Are You Sleeping With?’ My Conversation with Timothy Keller

So, I was talking to Tim Keller this week when the topic of sex came...

April 11, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Machiavelli and the Pruning Parent

Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must...

April 10, 2013

Skyrim: For Christians! Finally!

It has been asked before, and answered by our own Alan Noble, whether or not...

April 10, 2013

Breaking News: ‘Accidental Racist’ Fixes Racism!

After a tumultuous 394-year history, the volatile racial tension caused by cultural misunderstandings (slavery), social...

April 10, 2013

“Popologetics” for Evangelicals: Ted Turnau’s Missional Defense of Pop Culture

"Turnau sees the pervasive presence of popular culture as a worldview challenge that requires from...

April 08, 2013

Overcoming Mental Illness’ Stigma in the Church: An Interview with Amy Simpson

I recently asked Amy Simpson for her perspective on the Matthew Warren story, as well...

April 03, 2013

Five Ways to Enjoy May

April is, if not the cruelest, at least one of the slowest months in pop-culture...

April 02, 2013

Yet Another Reason to Love Trader Joe’s

"In other words, money is important, but people are even more so."

April 01, 2013

Does Loneliness Kill the Soul?

"And here's some more good news about your loneliness: It might just be shortening your...

April 01, 2013

TK and the Clichés of Our Day

Taken one at a time, clichés don’t seem so harmful. But what if they were...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

What Should I Wear to Church?

The tech boom of the 90s was a heady time of enormous newfound wealth and...

March 29, 2013

Every Sunday Is a Little Easter Sunday

In a few days, it will be Easter Sunday, which, for many years now, has...

March 29, 2013

Frequently Searched Questions: Antimatter Opposed by the Church

The following are actual search terms people typed into Google (Yahoo?) which directed them to...

March 28, 2013

Don’t Worry, Vicky (An Open Letter to Victoria’s Secret)

Dear Vicky, I know it’s been a rough week for you.  That blog post about...

March 28, 2013

Can We Learn From Kids and Their Toys?

"Galimberti's photos are a helpful reminder that I need to be thoughtful about the toys...

March 27, 2013

The Landslide of Terror: Living in This Present Darkness

This week I was leisurely skimming through music performances on YouTube. It was nice, one...

March 27, 2013

Christian Responses to Gay Marriage: CaPC Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage

Over the years, CaPC has written about the issue of gay marriage in a number...

March 27, 2013

Easter Is Coming

"About five years ago, just before Easter, I saw my grandmother for the last time."

March 26, 2013

Thomas Nagel: An Atheist loved by Creationists, yet hated by his Kin?

Imagine if you created an amazing piece of work which would revolutionize the way we...

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