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October 2012

October 03, 2012

Debatable Lies

This wouldn't be a proper theology and culture blog without a comment about the cultural...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Good Work

Humans may be a disobedient lot by and large, but “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen...

September 21, 2012

Words

Today's guest blogger is John Cuyler, Pastor of Storrs Community Church in Coventry, Connecticut since...

September 19, 2012

Politics as Religion

OK, so this is nothing especially new, but I liked the way that Ross Douthat,...

September 12, 2012

Unapologetic Preaching

Asked to review James MacDonald's Vertical Church by the fine people who bring you Patheos, it seemed...

September 05, 2012

The Temptation of Truth

A wise mentor once told me that to truly understand another's beliefs is to be...

September 04, 2012

Velázquez, Dwarfs, and the Contradiction of Graceful Painting

The Spanish artist Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) is a contradiction. His disarming virtuosity, combined with an...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Hooking Up and Hanging On

As the father of a daughter, and a minister to boot, my fears of the...

August 23, 2012

You Don’t Need Adam to Need a Savior: You Just Need Sin

The issue of the "historicity of Adam" (and Eve--why do we always forget Eve?) is...

August 16, 2012

Breaking Bad: Why Society Still Needs “Sin” Language

Like a lot of folks, I'm hooked on "Breaking Bad"-- the drama about Walter White,...

August 15, 2012

Paul Ryan & Alex Keaton

A culture blog is the last place you want to talk politics (despite the role...

August 08, 2012

Why Something?

Jim Holt's new book, “Why Does the World Exist?, tackles the most basic question we humans could...

August 06, 2012

Beach Volleyball’s Boys and Babes

We have been periodically watching the Olympics over the last week. I particularly like watching...

August 03, 2012

Novel Reading: A Lost Art?

Okay.....I'm picking up a theme that a couple of my blogging colleagues did on "summer...

August 01, 2012

Hittie, Jebusite, Amorite, Mosquito-bite

The New Yorker ran a disturbing piece recently on mosquitoes, apropos to a midsummer post when swatting...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

100 Days to Go

"100 Days to Go" was one of the main articles in the Sunday edition of...

July 27, 2012

Jonathan Merritt, the SBC, and the Culture Wars: What’s Next?

Something has exploded on the blogosphere -- and I have a feeling it's only getting...

July 25, 2012

Summer Reading Take Two

Over at a friend's house the other night, the conversation kept going back to high...

July 23, 2012

Another shooting…..what’s a Christian to do?

Here we go again. Another shooting and the very low expectation that we will have...

July 20, 2012

Zombies, Gnosticism, and the Departure of Hope

Today's post is by guest blogger Tim Conder. Tim is the founding pastor of Emmaus...

July 18, 2012

Summer Reading

In a cabin on a lovely little lake (one of ten thousand) just outsidethe Boundary...

July 17, 2012

A Buffalo ’66 Theology of Culture

We live in a bipolar and schizophrenic culture. On one hand it is extremely crude...

July 13, 2012

The Red Herring of Public Decency

The Chinese government's "pixelation" of Michelangelo's marble sculpture, David-Apollo in a television story previewing an exhibition of western art at...

July 11, 2012

Spin, Laugh, Pray

Guest blogger Dawn Duncan Harrell is author of Ten Ways to Pray: A Short Guide...

July 10, 2012

Bearing Cultural Witness

Poet and Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky It was Aleksandr Tvardovsky's habit to lounge about his apartment...

July 09, 2012

Movement, Sect, Organization or Institution?

The sermon yesterday was organized around a quotation in the bulletin: "The mark of a...

July 06, 2012

God’s Competition?

It was a wild Fourth of July night in Ashland, Ohio. We headed over to...

July 05, 2012

God and the “Goddamn Particle”

For the past 50 years or so, scientists have been looking for the elusive "Higgs...

July 04, 2012

Justice for All

Happy Fourth of July. Hopefully you have better plans today than blog reading, but just...

July 03, 2012

Art and Karma: A Report from India

I spent last week in Hyderabad, India leading an arts in ministry track at the...