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The Disconnect
Subtitled: Moral Immorality, the Music and Movie Industry, Disney’s Double Standard, and the Duke Lacrosse Team and Honest Strippers I’ve been meaning to post something along these lines for some time, but for a million insignificant reasons, I haven’t. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Church, Movies, Music, Obedience, Pop Culture, Responsibility, Sin, Theology
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Hitchens and Wilson: Answering a fool according to his folly
If you haven’t heard, Douglas Wilson (a Christian) and Christopher Hitchens (an atheist) are debating the question “Is Christianity Good for the World?“. I’d be grossly under-exaggerating if I didn’t say that Wilson is destroying his opponent. Over the last … Continue reading
Tagged Atheism, News, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Skepticism, Theology
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Respecting our Depravity
Perhaps you’ve experienced the following: You are watching television, a crime-drama or a thriller, something like CriminalMindsBonesNumbers or CSI:MiamiNewYorkIdaho. You know exactly the sort of show I’m speaking of. On the screen there is a woman. She is at home … Continue reading
Don’t shake hands with Sheryl Crow
I know that this has been blogged to death, but I couldn’t let it pass by without comment. From the Washington Post’s Biodiesel bug blog: “Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, … Continue reading
Tagged Life in general, Music, Musicians, News, Pop Culture, TMI
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Love, Insulation, and Speaking to be Heard
I read about a Swedish band; they sing their songs in English because it insultates them from lyrics that would be too raw, too painful to sing otherwise. It made me think of birthday cards, of poems written by machines, … Continue reading
Tagged Beauty, Decay, Inspiration, Love, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Writing
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Al Mohler, Ann Coulter, John Edwards, and the word “faggot”
Apparently Ann Coulter recently called John Edwards a faggot and Al Mohler has written a piece distancing himself from her actions. And while I agree with Mohler in general, here’s where I start to lose the thread of his argument: … Continue reading
Tagged Faith, God, Language, Obedience, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Responsibility, Theology
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Television, Movies, the Internet, Power Outages, and Christianity
I ran across a comment by Jonathan Edwards (who else? ) over at Tim Challies’ blog and it got me thinking. Here is the relevant excerpt from his comment: As I thought of the idea of ridding myself of unlawful … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Entertainment, Home, Internet, Life in general, Movies, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Television
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Love is… spinning?!?
I stumbled across this around Valentine’s Day and thought it was extremely cute (in a very masculine sort of way). Note that the site that this web comic comes from has the following warning in its page footer and should … Continue reading
Tagged Comics, Love, Pop Culture
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The Quality and Expression of Love
Over at Bittersweet Life, my friend Ariel has pointed us all to an article (on the Touchstone magazine blog) that dares to compare modern American pop culture lyrics on love to stuff written by dead people (they probably couldn’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged Decay, Fiction, Love, Poetry, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Religion, Writing
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