Category Archives: Culture commentary

So This is Water, The Water Is Joy

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

Wow, very impressive. I would like to deconstruct it a bit though. The thesis is that education affords one the choice to consider a more generous outlook on the banalities of modern urban existence. This is true and helpful. What’s … Continue reading →

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Youth from the Evangelical Greenhouse Critique Their Nursery

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

A second article came through today on young evangelicals reconsidering the oral tradition which they inherited. This piece from Patrol on “The cult of virginity“, a bunch of good comments too. It’s interesting because there often aren’t a lot of … Continue reading →

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Gay Oppression and the Money Test

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

This piece by Timothy Dalrymple surely will catch fire.  It cites a study showing the financial and political power of the gay community. The article would have been interesting enough if he hadn’t turned to use it to respond to the … Continue reading →

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Mixed Messages on Suicide in the Wake of the Aaron Swartz Suicide

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

The suicide of Aaron Swartz has the attention of the tech community. While going after prosecutorial harassment most commentators are rightly measuring their statements because of the role depression played in the suicide. One of the podcasts I regularly listen … Continue reading →

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Thought Crimes Against Persons and the Weightiness of God

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

“What does it matter what I think about God?”  Does it matter if one mentally ascents to the Trinity? Does it matter if I call him/her/it Yhwh, Allah, “the man upstairs”, “the big guy”, or “a higher power”? Does it … Continue reading →

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Ross Douthat on The God Within

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

My friend Eric mentioned Douthat’s book “Bad Religion” which I had not finished, and then it got mentioned on the McKnight piece I stumbled upon prompting me to read the chapter. Douthat here sums up the tenets of this faith … Continue reading →

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Parallels Between Abortion Debate and the Gun Debate

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

Both are Asserted As Rights Guaranteed by the Bill of Rights The “right to privacy” is a Supreme Court interpretation of the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution. You’ll find no “right to privacy” language in those amendments  but that is how … Continue reading →

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Jack of All Cultures But Mastered by None, Or So We Try

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Breadcrumbs Lots of interesting “more cultured than thou” posts flying around, and some that are a bit more honest and humble. I got into the conversation via the Patrol piece Hipsters and Hamster Balls. Lots of links in that one. … Continue reading →

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Complementarian Women Complicate the Conventional Conversation

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

The Caricature Complementarians are men don’t want to share power and have with docile, quiet, compliant wives. Egalitarians are loud women with compliant, hip, spineless husbands (that would be me I guess). Hello Internet Just having read a couple of … Continue reading →

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The Walking Dead

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

I’ve always been fascinated with apocalyptic stories. I remember as a child pondering what a nuclear attack would bring. I remember the boxes of Civil Defense rations stuffed in the storage room off the Jr. High Gym. I remember when … Continue reading →

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