The Intersection of Faith and Culture
January 2012. I ejected the last DVD and breathed a satisfied sigh. I had finished the tenth and final season of Smallville. The journey that had begun when some friends introduced me to this television retelling of Superman’s teenage years had come to a close. Sort of. Because, on the […]
By now you are probably aware that the world’s largest homosexuality rehabilitation ministry, Exodus International, has decided to shut down its ministry. As of June 19th, over 10K people on Facebook had shared the statement made by Exodus’s President Alan Chambers, a former homosexual himself. So, why did so many […]
Why read in this age of Facebook, viral videos and top 10 lists? There they are. All lined up on my shelf, huddled like a clique in the cafeteria. The rest lay in a pile on the floor, like someone yelled “dog-pile!” and then unloaded on them with an Uzi. They’re […]
Derek Webb capitalizes on a tweet-fight with the Roots’ ?uestlove to bring on the funk. It was more than a year ago that I talked to Derek Webb about… well, stuff. Toward the end, I asked him about a string of tweets regarding issues he seemed to be having with […]
Do you withhold the truth, afraid that no one will like you if they knew what you were really thinking? God wants to interact with the ugly things too.
I use sex. I use it all the time. And I’m not ashamed to say it. Firstly, I’m married–nearly 11 very happy and fulfilled years, in fact. You may now let your 20-something carefree assumptions fly. I’m a 33-year-old suffocated artist who is admittedly submerged deeply in the land of […]
