Category: Culture
There Are Cedars Where I’m Going
On the other side of the sea, clasped tight between ancient mountains and a battered blue coast, perches a small country with a brilliant and blemished past and, with a little help and a little...
Where the moons are ever waning
When the New Horizons spacecraft left our little lonely rock on January 19, 2006, iPhones hadn’t been invented yet. Gas prices were under $2.50 and Hummer sales had yet to peak. Facebook laid claim to...
Better than words
Much braying about the moral health of the country has gone firing across the social corral in the last week. From all sides fly cries of victory and defeat, right and wrong, absolutes bellowed with...
The NFL has a message for Jackie Robinson West
Why is it that when the National Football League concludes that the New England Patriots intentionally deflated footballs to a level more to their quarterback’s liking in the AFC Championship Game, the team is fined...
A Religion for Heroes
A problem with Christianity — and shared by most great religions — is its perfection. The holiness of the call, the excellence of the commands, make it literally impossible to adhere. The standard of religion...
‘Age of Ultron’ as Christian Commentary
Thor is the Asgardian god of thunder in Norse mythology. The Scarlet Witch was given psycho-magical powers by an Elder God. The infinity stones and the tesseract of a pre-universe signularity have in them vaguely...
On MLK and the Growing “Defense” of Rioting
During the Ferguson protests last year, the majority of editorials and blogposts pinned to my Facebook wall or found on the opinion pages of mainstream media condemned both systems of oppression and violent reactions in...
Freddie Gray and the narrative
It is important to remember what prompted the problems we see this week in Baltimore. The event that started this latest series of widespread public unrest in another American city was the life-ending injury to...
Soul Vultures? An earthquake in Nepal is not an ‘opportunity to swoop in’
If the gospel is true, if we are to view history with eternal rather than temporal eyes, it must also be true that the saving grace of Jesus Christ is the most desperate need of...
They couldn’t save the photo album
There’s a large, old apartment building one town over. It’s the oldest place around. Old brick, old heating, old beautiful architecture. Lots of families live there, and it’s pretty diverse. Still, folks have gotten along...