Category: Culture
Why we shouldn’t hashtag BrazilProblems during the World Cup
I barely remember who won gold in hockey at the Sochi Olympics and I’ve pretty much forgotten all the other results. The thing I actually remember about the winter Games? #SochiProblems. Live wires in the...
Sex, Dating, and Icelandic Sheep
Here you go, world. Thoughts on dating as Christians. First I look at why dating is so tough for so many Christians. Second is what’s wrong with the current “Christian” approach to dating. Third, I get...
“I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.”
A young Sudanese woman named Mariam Yahya Irbahim Ishag has been sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging for marrying a Christian man. Mariam was born to a Muslim father, and even though her...
The importance of a journalist’s death in forgotten Africa
Camille Lepage was only 26 when she died this week in the Central African Republic, and yet she’d done more good for suffering people than the most of the rest of us will do in...
The Fault in Our Yarns
This post was originally published at The Post Calvin, a blog I contribute to by great alumni writers from Calvin College. _________________________________________________________________ I am beyond children’s literature. I am above the YA genre. Not in a...
Facebook’s palantir
Everyone knows what Facebook is for. Chatting with your friends in a public place. Arguing vehemently without repercussions. Posting pictures that make you look decent for a change. RSVPing, but completely without meaning it. Instant...
How stupidity can be the most genius thing
The limit of stupidity as it approaches X is not genius. Groupon won yesterday. “Groupon still exists?” you ask. It most certainly does, and it just made Presidents Day way cooler than it usually is....
Remember, the Sochi Olympics are being staged in a war zone
By now you’ve probably heard about the less-than-desirable conditions being faced by athletes, journalists and fans in the Russian city of Sochi, where the Winter Olympics are being held. Tweets about “dangerous face water,” a...
Why I’m a Christian, despite Christians
Have you ever been at a party where your friend says something really stupid? What was that? you think. Please repeat. But you regret this thought, because, yes, he really did say something that insensitive or ignorant or...
What Richard Sherman ACTUALLY taught us about America
So, Richard Sherman No. 1. Cinderella story. The Compton come-up kid, making a name for himself despite everything. Stanford savant, Illiad-loving, clean-record, “best corner in the game!” Or Richard Sherman No. 2. Thug. Disgrace. “Overpaid,...