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2013-04-25T09:24:13-06:00

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I Won’t Fear the Marathon

Last updated on: April 25, 2013 at 9:24 am By Jewel Evans

It was early January when I decided to take a risk and register for my first marathon. It’s this weekend, April 27. It’s happening in the city that’s been my home for almost two years now, Louisville, Kentucky. It’s been a long and cold winter with hundreds of miles run. Training for this race has looked like a part-time job with five runs a week, averaging an hour each day; there’s been a mid-week long run plus a weekend run upwards... Read more

2013-04-30T19:53:24-06:00

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Citizenship Confusion: Do We Need the Word of God on Our Guns?

Last updated on: April 30, 2013 at 7:53 pm By Alan Noble

Every Thursday in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and the world. Among all the wonderful promises Jesus gave His church perhaps the most difficult to understand and accept is the promise of persecution. But there it is, in John 15:20. If they persecuted Christ, the world will certainly persecute His church. And Christ has been faithful to that promise, as church history shows. Despite the long and varied persecution... Read more

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2013-04-25T06:36:38-06:00

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The Great Need For Wisdom In International Adoptions

Last updated on: April 25, 2013 at 6:36 am By Jason Morehead

International adoption is something that must be pursued and practiced with great wisdom, lest our efforts to help the fatherless cause them more harm than good. Read more

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2013-04-24T09:15:06-06:00

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Melissa Harris-Perry Wants Your Kids! Or Does She?

Last updated on: April 24, 2013 at 9:15 am By Geoffrey Reiter

The past couple weeks have seen a firestorm of controversy surrounding a 30-second television promo by MSNBC anchor host Melissa Harris-Perry. Conservative commentators reacted sharply against what they perceived as the insinuations of the video that children are owned in some collectivist way by the community or, worse, by the government at large: Such concerns cannot be dismissed out of hand. MSNBC, with its slogan of “Lean Forward,” has been consistently positioning itself in recent months and years as the... Read more

2013-04-24T08:03:46-06:00

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Pour Me Something Stronger: Nashville’s Addictions

Last updated on: April 24, 2013 at 8:03 am By Amy Lepine Peterson

In the first of many great songs performed on the TV show Nashville, shy ingenue Scarlett (Clare Bowen) sings about her obviously unworthy on-again-off-again boyfriend Avery (Jonathan Jackson): Stop saying those sweet things You know I’d like to hear The horns are blowing louder And they’re destroying me Why do I keep drinking Wasting my time on you If I didn’t know better Well, dammit, I do … You might as well be the devil Oh keeping me out past... Read more

2013-04-24T08:16:50-06:00

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CaPC Perspectives: Smokin’ Hawt Wife

Last updated on: April 24, 2013 at 8:16 am By Alan Noble

Here’s something fun: some Friday night, search Twitter for “Smoking hot wife.” You’ll likely find a multitude of tweets from pastors and church leaders who are going out on dates with their sexual attractive wives and announcing it to the world via twitter. Mary DeMuth’s powerful article at the Her.menutics blog at Christianity Today, “I’m Sick of Hearing About Your Smoking Hot Wife,” looks at the way this phrase has been harmfully used in evangelical circles. Her specific concern is that... Read more

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2013-04-24T11:32:09-06:00

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Mad Men Recap 6.4: The Many Roles that Mad Men Play

Last updated on: April 24, 2013 at 11:32 am By Nick Olson

Last week, I noted the irony in Don Draper’s compliant devotion to Raymond, the Heinz Beans Guy who didn’t want the younger, more suave and successful Heinz Ketchup Guy “screwing” his proverbial girlfriend. Heinz Ketchup would mean big business for Don and company; yet, there was Don: beckoning Pete Campbell to ensure fidelity to Heinz Beans, even as the two of them are cheating on their wives. From here on out, I suppose, just consider apparent ironies as kinds of... Read more

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2013-04-30T19:53:24-06:00

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Music Matters: What Can Metal Tell Us About the Importance of the Resurrection?

Last updated on: April 30, 2013 at 7:53 pm By Matthew Linder

Metal bands understand the importance of the resurrection because if it is true it changes everything. Read more

2013-04-30T19:53:26-06:00

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Kiddy Pool: Noah’s Ark, or the Apocalypse for Kids

Last updated on: April 30, 2013 at 7:53 pm By Erin Wyble Newcomb

Teaching children about Noah's Ark should neither gloss over the sin that caused the flood nor the rainbow of hope that appears at the end. Read more

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2013-04-22T08:38:11-06:00

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How Should We Handle Tragedy In The Digital Age?

Last updated on: April 22, 2013 at 8:38 am By Christopher Hutton

Do these posts actually provide any legitimate value for the victims, or for those working to fix the situation? Read more

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