Category Archives: Culture

Christianity and Capitalism: Part 7

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell Today’s is the seventh and final post in our summary of Jay Wesley Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperCollins, 2009), and it covers Chapter 8, “Are We … Continue reading →

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Christianity and Capitalism: Part 6

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

*Posted by Joe Wooddell This post is the second-to-last in the series, “Christianity and Capitalism,” in which I have been summarizing Jay Richards’s Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. Chapter 7, “Doesn’t Capitalism … Continue reading →

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Lifting Moloch to Heaven

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

*Posted by Kirk Spencer I heard something the other day that I have never heard before.  I heard this: “Thank you Planned Parenthood.  God bless you.” Maybe people say it all the time and I’m just not around to hear … Continue reading →

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An Unforeseen Kiss: The Illusiveness of Hope in The Great Gatsby

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

*Posted by Winston Hottman I’m one of those people who cannot see a movie first if there is a book behind it. And so in preparation of the theater release of The Great Gatsby, I decided to pick up the … Continue reading →

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The Gun Fight (Part 3): Responsibilities

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

*Posted by Kirk Spencer My dad taught me the basics of gun responsibility—find the safety and keep it on… never point a gun in the direction of a person… keep the gun unloaded, un-cocked, with your finger off the trigger … Continue reading →

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Should Islam Be Considered an “Abrahamic” Religion?: Part 1

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

*Posted by J. Scott Bridger. Bridger is Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Islamic Studies at Criswell College. In order to answer this question, I need to take you on a backwoods detour through a conversation I recently had with … Continue reading →

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The Gun Fight (Part 2): Re-Actions

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

After the mass-media has fully exploited a mass-shooting, the echo chambers are quiet and the rhetoric is packed away until the next “opportunity.”   All the while, acts of mass-violence prevented by legal gun carriers—in law enforcement, in public venues and … Continue reading →

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Roger Ebert, Non-Believers, and The Hope of Christ

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

* Posted by Brandon Smith Roger Ebert has been a powerhouse journalist for over 40 years. My generation may perhaps know him best as the co-host of the Emmy-nominated movie review show Siskel and Ebert at the Movies or the … Continue reading →

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The Gun Fight (Part 1): Actions

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

*Posted by Kirk Spencer It seems that immediately after a mass shooting there’s a gun fight—not a literal fight with guns but a fight over guns.  When there is a literal gun fight during the shooting (which does happen) there … Continue reading →

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Winston Churchill: Some Agnostic, Some Atheist (Part 3)

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

*Posted by Dr. Jerry A. Johnson *This post is the final in a three-part commentary on Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, the last volume in the epic series The Last Lion by William Manchester and Paul Reid. … Continue reading →

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