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Drive-By Evangelism
A couple nights ago I heard something blaring outside my window. My apartment complex is situated next to a high school football field, so I didn’t think anything of it until the sound started getting...
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Shame Day: Beyonce, Macklemore and the Grammy Backlash
Apparently I should really start watching the Grammys, primarily because they are THE place to find shameful behavior, or at least that’s what I’ve been hearing from the variety of subcultures that I...
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Shame Day: The Portrayal of Christians in Popular Media
I’ve ragged on Christians and Christianity alike, both in practice and doctrine, and I’ve never felt unjustified in doing so. Nevertheless, and for all its issues, it really can’t be denied that in...
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I Kissed Kissing Goodbye [And Present Thoughts on the Matter]
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. There’s, uh, hugging, obviously, and holding hands . . . there’s hanging out and talking of course . . . I can, uh, tell you that I love you, that seems...
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Culture War Correspondence: Modesty
EVAN: Welcome, readers of various genders, ages, personal beliefs, et cetera, to yet another installment of Culture War Correspondence. This week both Kat and I will be discussing how people need to...
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Shame Day: Noah Bashers
I haven’t seen Noah yet, but I also haven’t seen anything by Aronofsky that I didn’t like. You probably know him from such movies as The Black Swan, The Wrestler, and The Fountain- all tending to...
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Shame Day: Whitewashed Bible Movies and the Christians Who Watch Them
I think it only fair, given the current situation in the Gaza Strip, to shout-out the West’s general view of the Middle East today as having honorary Shame Day status [you can check out yesterday's...
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Sure, There’s The Afterlife [But Wait, There's More!]
When deciding to write about this topic, I had to be honest with myself and admit that things have gotten pretty darn personal around here in the past. It’s not like I haven’t shared with you and...
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Do Western Christians Want Martyrs?
This isn’t going to be a long post because I’m on the road again, but it is something that I wanted to quickly say. A couple weeks ago I told you that I was reading up on ISIS, in particular the...
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Re: Do Western Christians Want Martyrs? – Yes, They Do
Yesterday, CWR’s own Kat posted “Do Western Christians Want Martyrs?”, a short post questioning the motivations behind the recent outpouring of Western sympathy for the plight of Iraqi and Syrian...
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2014’s Cultural Battleground – Gordon’s Account
EDITOR’S NOTE: We end this year by each taking a look back and picking our five best posts, explaining both their importance to us and to the world we currently live in. Clicking the banner images...
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2014’s Cultural Battleground – Kat’s Account
EDITOR’S NOTE: We end this year by each taking a look back and picking our five best posts, explaining both their importance to us and to the world we currently live in. Clicking the banner images...
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2014’s Cultural Battleground – Evan’s Account
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3 Things Christians Parents Can Learn From the Death of Leelah Alcorn
On December 28th Leelah (Josh) Alcorn committed suicide. In the Tumblr note she scheduled to upload after her death, Leelah implies that her parents’ strict rejection of her identity was one of the...
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Why Ben Carson Shouldn’t Be President
The past two decades has not been kind to American Christians. In spite of the Bush presidency, largely supported by Evangelicals, the former administration’s efforts were focused on the battles in...
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Two Things Forgiveness Should Never Mean (i.e. Learning from the Duggars)
On May 19th In Touch Weekly published an article alleging that when Josh Duggar was a teenager, he molested five underage girls, including several of his sisters. I didn’t want to write about the...
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(Gay) Mawige Is Wat Bwings Us Togever Today
As you already know, June 26th saw the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges- an agonizingly boring name for what was one of the most momentous decisions in American legal history....
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“Hail Satan Gaiman” Or “Sympathy for the Devil”
Neil ****ing Gaiman. Whimsical genius behind countless best-selling novels and comic books. Creative cadre to such literary giants as Terry Pratchett and Alan Moore. Champion of the plight of Syrian...
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This Post Contains Pictures of Dead Children
43 years ago, a picture was taken. It captured the moments after a napalm attack on a Vietnamese village. Against a backdrop of smoke, a nine year old girl runs towards the camera, naked and screaming....
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On The Image Problem of Christ
Back when this blog started up, Evan and I had a discussion about a lecture given by Socialist novelist China Miéville. During that lecture, Miéville commented that “if one person hears what you’re...
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