The Intersection of Faith and Culture
When a theatre full of people doesn’t stop laughing for more than five minutes at a time, chances are the movie is either very funny or incredibly stupid. Guardians of the Galaxy is the former. I loved this movie on first viewing, and as far as I can tell, everyone […]
Thirty-two months ago, Facebook conducted an “emotional contagion” study on how the emotions of people around us, as expressed through status updates, affect our own. Unsurprisingly, the study found that our friends’ posts do, in fact, influence what we share about our lives. More shocking to the researchers, however, was the […]
Look up on Facebook, hook up with an app The idea was simple enough. Click on the pictures of the people you know on Facebook who you would like to have sex with. If someone picks you in return, you both get an alert; if not, you’re none the wiser. This was […]
Vacations and exotic adventures fill social media feeds during the summer. Scrolling through I find photo after photo of friends in unusual destinations like Rwanda, Burundi, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. As the season of short-term mission trips reaches a crescendo, I confess that deep-seated questions stir in my heart and mind as […]
A few hours after I was assigned to write about the media’s silence over the Crimea situation, a Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine. While the international political scene is still trying to find an explanation for the disaster, the families of the 298 victims will now finally be […]
A man’s mind, once it has been stretched with a new idea, can never return to its original dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) “The climb has taken me far beyond the mountain,” says Denise Heppner. She was one of 45 women from around the world who climbed to Everest Base Camp in […]