The Intersection of Faith and Culture
I’m 23, I just graduated from university, and I’m single. Many of my friends are married, and a few are starting to have children. And I feel as if I just graduated from high school again. You could say my life is in transition. And it’s true; I am in […]
Ten years ago, cooking shows were synonymous with chubby, funny middle-aged men who uttered taglines like “Bam!” and “Kick it up a notch!” and “If Yan can cook, so can you!” But reality television has been a game-changer for the food industry. It‘s no longer just an indie thing to […]
It is not uncommon for me to log onto Facebook and find friends who have posted the most recent viral Fox News gaffe. Nine times out of ten the gaffe is something that I have seen before — a news anchor putting their conservative foot in their mouth or a […]
My dehumanization I used to watch a lot of sci-fi movies when I was a kid. My dad was into the weird ’80s stuff, and let me watch things he probably shouldn’t have, like Dune, Total Recall, and Terminator 2. There are lots of sci-fi movies that warn us of […]
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 […]
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 […]