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April 2012

April 14, 2012

Can We Lose Our Ability to Recognize Beauty? What Happens if we Do?

I'm slogging through Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord, Vol. I., Seeing...

April 13, 2012

The Most Popular Mayor in America

This is a pretty amazing story. Newark Mayor Cory Booker literally ran into a burning...

April 13, 2012

Isaac Anderson and the Lord God Bird

My friend Isaac Anderson has an essay in the current Image Journal. For those of...

April 12, 2012

Ed Young’s Newest Stunt Ignites a Police Investigation

Chanel 8 in Dallas is reporting that Ed Young is now under investigation by Grapevine...

April 12, 2012

Stanley Fish on the Universal Rejection of Scientific Privilege

The New York Times published a 2 part story by Stanley Fish which deals with...

April 10, 2012

Sentimentality

Sentimentality (my definition): softening the blows of reality by telling ourselves half-truths and untruths which...

April 09, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional – An Easter Hangover

I confess that Easter may be my favorite day of the year. I love to...

April 08, 2012

He is Risen Indeed: Frederick Buechner on the Resurrection

Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. On the really big days of the...

April 07, 2012

Redemption Church Logo – Designed by Matt Nagel

My friend Matt Nagel died last week & left a great number of people so...

April 06, 2012

3 Free Francis Chan Books

My friend Scott Savage just let me know you can download three Francis Chan books...

April 04, 2012

Jesus Beer – The Sensation That’s Sweeping the Nation This Easter

I really needed a laugh today, so this post is dedicated to Matt Nagel who...

April 03, 2012

Gallup Poll: Churchgoers Report Better Moods & Higher Overall Well-being

I'm biased, I know, but this is interesting. Gallup has recently done some research on...

April 02, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional – Praying for Matt Nagel

I confess that my friend & Paperback Theology reader Matt Nagel had a stroke on Sunday...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Farewell to Earl Scruggs

One of the most unique musicians of a generation died yesterday. Scruggs was an icon...

March 28, 2012

Are the Neo-Reformed really just Neo-Fundamentalists?

Here are a few paragraphs from a paper by Mike Clawson, who is getting his...

March 27, 2012

Stanley Hauerwas on Prayer – a great 2 min. video

Stanley Hauerwas has made a deep impression on me over the years. My first encounter...

March 26, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that I am not a consumer I am a steward. I confess that...

March 24, 2012

The Truth About the Democratic Party

I've got a new article up at the Huffington Post. Strangely it has been filed...

March 23, 2012

The Hunger Games: The AV Club Review – What did You Think?

There's a pretty good review of the Hunger Games at the AV Club. I typically...

March 22, 2012

It’s a Big Tent Revival – BTR is back!

One fall Satellite Soul lucked onto a tour featuring Big Tent Revival, Jennifer Knapp, and...

March 21, 2012

Blue Like Jazz & the Battle of the Christian (sort of) Filmmakers

I was forwarded a very interesting article by Steve Taylor today. Steve is the old...

March 20, 2012

Television’s Kirk Cameron’s Film Monumental: You can’t go back, you can only go forward.

Television's Kirk Cameron was on The Today Show this morning promoting his new film called...

March 19, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional

I confess that I’m watching The West Wing series again. I’m six episodes into season...

March 17, 2012

Rowan Williams Stepping Down

Rowan Williams announced this week that he's stepping down from his post as the head...

March 16, 2012

The Case of the Missing Hacker

I just finished reading one of the most interesting articlesI’ve read in months. In fact...

March 15, 2012

Goldman Sachs Exec Gives Peek Behind the Curtain of American Investment Banks

Just remember that these are the guys who put us in a recession. Greg Smith,...

March 15, 2012

Are We Getting Dumber? Let’s Hope TLC is Not Living Proof

It might be time for TLC to change its name. When The Learning Channel started...

March 14, 2012

How To Start a Cult

Here's everything you always wanted to know about how to start a cult, but were...

March 13, 2012

10 great words you should know and use

I am an unabashed logophile(noun – lover of words). The English language is fascinating and...

March 12, 2012

Monday Morning Confessional – The conspicuous consumer-exhibitionist

I confess that the last time I was on an airplane I seriously struggled with...