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We interrupt this Miley Cyrus rant (and Ben Affleck is Batman?!!?!?) rant…
I know it is SOOOO important to go over and over and over and over and over again how HORRIBLE it was that Ben Affleck is cast as Batman. How TRAGIC. So, we’ve moved on to more meaningful rants… like Miley Cyrus’s raunchy performance at the VMAs last night. (NOTE: I don’t know who Miley Cyrus is, what VMA stands…
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When will the body count bother us?
Not as Americans, but as Christians, when will the news we refuse to pay attention to finally start to jolt us? The New York Times has a picture at the top of their website showing body bags of a Syrian family. The report is death by nerve gas. Thousands, thousands, have perished in Syria. Hundreds, if not into the thousands,…
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We will, quite simply, change your mind
It thought of that line in relation to how I want us to live as believers. It is too easy to get caught up in the blogosphere, the media, entertainment, etc., and form our opinions. There are some incredibly strong opinions about the church, and those with any measure of angst blog about it. The ones with real angst get the media…
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We get torn apart by our terminology
Richard Stearns, head of World Vision, wrote a response on a perceived attack on the term “radical Christians.” This was in response to a Christianity Today piece on the “new radicals.” Stearns’s response is basic: “Yep, we’re radical, and we’re not radical enough!” It’s gone back and forth in a way that reminds me of the days when my “tribe” (Pentecostals) were…
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Race and Fear
I’ve written very little on the matter of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman because it’s far too complex to button hole either person into the extremes I read about every day online. But this article had some thoughts I resonated with. This thought in particular: Fear is not a complex human emotion—it’s a primal one. It originates from the most…
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Allegiance
I love July 4, fireworks, patriotic songs, movies about the Revolution… all of it. That cop that sings “God Bless America” at Yankees games gets me every time I hear his wonderful tenor voice. But my allegiance isn’t here. It is in another land. Another place. Another kingdom. The country of my birth is a place I love. The Kingdom…
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Paying attention where we give
Too often we are ready to give emotionally off an appeal and we don’t often think about just how much money actually gets to the need. This story chronicles 50 really low percentage charities. Low percentage would be the amount of money they pay to solicitors and how much of the money raised actually gets to the need. I actually…
Category: Culture
