The Intersection of Faith and Culture
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As one of the 20th century’s most recognizable and respected names, Billy Graham set the standard for great evangelistic preaching. He proclaimed the gospel unashamedly with passion and integrity — exactly what an anointed preacher is supposed to do. People hear sermons preached from pulpits in churches every week. Today, […]
How Groupon changed everything. I have become a “Craigslist king,” according to one of my students. “How do you do it, man?” he asked. “You find everything you need for next to nothing! Teach me your ways.” Part of me wishes he had the same passionate inquisitiveness with regard to […]
What the “Christian masculinity” movement keeps getting wrong. The Church has been inundated recently with a glut of books and articles on what it means to be a Christian man. But while we should think holistically about our identities — including gender roles — it is unfortunate so much of […]
Classic Crystal Every few cycles the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give up on trying to appeal to the elusive young ‘uns and play to their loyal audience of blue hairs. Sunday night was such a night. In a nice recovery from 2011’s flop-sweat-stained Oscarcast, which saw Anne Hathaway and James Franco miserably […]
In the annals of Marvel Comics motion picture adaptations, 2007’s Ghost Rider is a sad, misguided footnote barely worth expending the energy to mention. Helmed by Daredevil director Mark Steven Johnson, it was a tediously limp franchise launch that impressively managed to render a tragic flaming biker skeleton boring. No mean feat, that! However, […]
Mark Driscoll gets this one right. Seriously. In my opinion, we ought to have the freedom to use language contextually and not be bound by religiosity. That doesn’t mean that we ought to cuss like a sailor, but words have power… even what our culture considers offensive. (To be clear, […]