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Material Boy: On Artifacts, Discernment, and Elites
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
Andy Crouch’s Culture Making is an important book written by an insightful writer. It warrants wide discussion. It is also strangely troubling.
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Neo-pagan sexuality
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In The Matrix Reloaded, the Wachowski’s provide us a glimpse of Zion, the last refuge of the human race in the war with the machines. The temple/sex scene is crucial because it is not only in the heart of Zion, it has religious meaning as a final assembly to prepare for the last desperate battle for survival.
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Rap Artists’ Use of Women
BY: Luke Bobo |
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“Oh Dad, you are always preaching. You’re old fashioned and reading too much into these videos!” My overlooked point was that these rap music videos are not neutral. They communicate cogently clear and subtle messages. Namely, many of the rap music videos tend to objectify or de-humanize women.
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Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (William C. Placher, 2005)
BY: Denis Haack |
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Callings is a rich resource, especially for those of us who do not have easy access to a large university library. Here in one volume is Justin Martyr, Athanasius, and Augustine; Bernard of Clairvaux, Aquinas, and Thomas á Kempis; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and William Perkins; Sren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Sayers, Karl Barth, and so many more.
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Babylon Series: Part 14 Responding to shifting sand
BY: Denis Haack |
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Christians assume that we can keep using the same arguments to convince each generation of the truth of Christianity. But that isn’t true. If we respond to new questions with old arguments, we make Christianity appear irrelevant.
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08.20 - 08.25
Critique #3-2008 being printed
Toad Hall
Rochester, MN
08.22 - 08.24
Weekend conference.
Faith Presbyterian Church
Birmingham, AL
08.25 - 08.31
In the great Southeast
visiting family (& friends in Nashville)
Chattanooga, TN
08.31 - ------.------
Preaching
St Elmo Presbyterian Church
Chattanooga, TN
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We live in a skeptical world, where for many unbelief is more plausible than belief, where cynicism often seems to trump the claims of faith. We take doubt and faith very seriously here. In fact, we are convinced that both believers and unbelievers need to take their doubts seriously. Truth and life and too important to do otherwise.
Thanks for visiting our web site.
Denis (for Margie, too)
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