Review: Coloring the Psalms, Seeing God’s Patterns in Our Lives
Coloring the Psalms: Seeing God’s Patterns in Our Lives. By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, illustrated by James Newman Gray. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016….
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Is The Maker Movement Making Souls?
Have you heard of the Maker Movement? I recently picked up a book titled The Maker Movement Manifesto (McGraw Hill, 2014). In this…
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A Nod to Gestures
What if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us? Does such a thought excite or frighten? Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away?
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Selfhood for Sale: The Marketing of Meaning
“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having – human fulfillment was no…
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Dave, Her Failure, and a Different Success: A Pastoral Response
I have an imaginary friend – you haven’t met her, I don’t think, but she’s a blend of artists I know and you may…
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An Audition I Passed Up
INT: Home Office Lukas sits at his desk in front of a computer. He just received an audition for a popular crime drama. He…
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Some Christians say that if Jesus were here today, he would use films as he used stories. At first glance, this sounds perfect. However, this…
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Working in Babylon Media
The last few years have seen an explosion of Christians trying to engage with culture, to enjoy it, understand it and work out how…
Read MorePopular Music and Theology: Strange Bedfellows?
As a child of a particular strand of American Protestantism, I was warned from an early age to be weary of this world and…
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