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Sojo Celebrates Shark Week 2012
This week the Discovery Channel celebrates its 25th Shark Week, its most popular week of television. It has been gaining steam each year as one of the biggest weeks in all of television, and numerous...
View ArticleAtheists Find a New Venue for the Godless: On Film
There were no red carpets, no paparazzi, no celebrities, and definitely no God at the recent annual Atheist Film Festival.Instead, there were more than a dozen films, long and short, about separation...
View ArticleBromosapien: The Evolution of the Postmodern Male (Part 2)
A few examples of how clueless I am about male identity, and how mixed-up the gender roles are becoming, just in my own family:I’ve never killed anything, at least on purpose. The only time I ever shot...
View ArticleA Hip Hop Gospel?
PORTLAND, Ore. — Hip-hop's all the rage at universities and seminaries these days.Scholars parse its angry and often violent language. They sift out refrains of religious redemption or clever critiques...
View ArticleMuslim Parents Wrestle with Passing on Islamic Values
Muslim immigrants to America frequently worry whether their children will be able to maintain their Islamic identity in a country with a reputation for rampant vice and promiscuity. Many respond by...
View ArticleQ&A on Tim Tebow’s Gridiron Faith
Can Tim Tebow do no wrong?Michael Butterworth of Bowling Green State University has turned his attention to sports media coverage of Tebow, an evangelical Christian and New York Jets quarterback. The...
View ArticleLinks of Awesomeness: September 28, 2012
Apparently even Tim Cook doesn't use the new maps app on iPhone 5. Shocker.Also, some Grandmas meet Star Wars, Algae gets fed by an opera singer, someone took some sweet Iceland photos, and some...
View ArticlePlease Do Not Dress Up for Halloween in Blackface, Brownface, or Yellowface;...
Americans love Halloween. In fact, maybe it’s fair to say we go crazy about Halloween. How crazy?Americans spend $310 million dollars per year on costumes … for our pets. Wow.In total, Americans spend...
View ArticleCULTURE WATCH: Yeasayer — Musical Mad Scientists
There are some artists whose work leaves you walking away thinking, “How in the world did they do that?” The Yeasayer performance at the 9:30 Club in D.C. on Nov. 15 was one such performance. The...
View ArticleThe Power of Christmas
“Faith is recognizing that if at Christmas Jesus became like us, it was so we might become more like him,” wrote the well-known preacher and activist William Sloan Coffin. He goes on to add, “We know...
View ArticleChange or Die
Church is being reinvented. So are technology and education. And all for the same reasons.Facebook just started moving Google’s cheese with its launch of Home. An army of upstarts in Silicon Valley is...
View ArticleJulian 'J-Kwest' DeShazier on Rhymes & Reasons: The Stories of Hip-Hop
For nearly a decade, the ministry of Julian “J.Kwest” DeShazier has been an exploration in the relationship between music and faith. As artist, this Chicago native has used his unique rhythm to tell...
View ArticleTales of a Male 'Preacher's Wife'
The stats say that women in the workplace – from seminaries to the boardroom – have become the norm, but being a stay-at-home dad is still considered a countercultural act (even in Portland).read more
View ArticleThe Revolution is Upon Us
Religious historians say that every 500 years, Christianity goes through a “massive transition,” as noted religion writer Phyllis Tickle puts it.Around 500 A.D., “barbarians” sought to subjugate Rome...
View ArticleWhat Matters Most
Kind, tired eyes from too much seeing ...Worn, battered shoes from too much walking ...Stained, tattered shirt from too much working ...Gentle, calloused hands from too much holding ...Open, humbled...
View ArticleShould a Christian Watch 'Game of Thrones?'
Is there anything morally redeeming about Game of Thrones? Does the hit HBO series even have a moral vision?The show is certainly entertaining, almost addictively so, and as Game of Thrones wraps up...
View ArticleDavid Wimbish: Life, Death, Fundraising, and Festivals
At the 2012 Wild Goose, for an afternoon set at a tent tucked away on the backwoods of the festival site, a young North Carolina band blew minds and won fans. More than just a band — more like a...
View ArticleSecond Time Around: Wild Goose Mixtape 2013
I’m excited to share this mixtape in honor of the Wild Goose Festival, Aug. 8-11 in Hot Springs, N.C. For the festival proper, this third one will surely be a charm. But for me, it’s the second time...
View Article'You've Got Mail,' A Swedish Movie About Death, Kissing Dating Goodbye, and...
My husband and I basically fell in love via AOL instant message conversations that led to daily email missives and then to phone calls and then, you know, to actually hanging out in person.We knew each...
View ArticleProblems with Christian Contemporary Music: An Interview with Trey Pearson of...
Trey Pearson, front man and creative mind behind the band, Everyday Sunday, is in many ways the picture of a successful Contemporary Christian Music artist. He’s toured the world, played to thousands...
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