Category: Christian Culture
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Your Weekly Dose of Irony
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The Elephant In The Room Is Church History
Perhaps you’re blissfully unaware that T.D. Jakes was invited to Round 2 of The Elephant Room. Depending on your familiarity with The Elephant Room, this is either cause for concern or a prompt to ask, “what’s the elephant room?” As Tim Challies clarifies: By way of context, we need to remember that The Elephant Room is a…
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MuteMath: Armistice
[This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] Tomorrow, MuteMath releases their third studio album, Odd Soul. Today, on our alphabetical trek through my iTunes library, we come to their second album, Armistice. This album, takes us back to fall (like their first will when we come to it), and specifically, fall…
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From The Garden To The City
John Dyer is the director of web development at my alma mater Dallas Theological Seminary, as well as a graduate from there with his Th.M. He blogs regularly at Don’t Eat the Fruit. In the introduction to the book, Dyer lays out the single statement from one of his professors that seemed to be…
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Animals As Leaders
[This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] While most of these posts have gone back a few years into my college experience, this one only goes back a few months. I first stumbled onto Animals As Leaders this past spring and was quickly listening to their album on repeat while I…
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College: Alphabetized By Album
This series sprung from my reflection on my time in college as it has now come to an end. I decided to order my thoughts through my iTunes library and move alphabetically by album title (hence the series) title to achieve an ordered, but non-linear approach. Here’s the posts so far: Mae: (a)fternoon The Working…
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Mew: And The Glass Handed Kites
[This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] I’m not sure where I first heard of Mew, but sometime early 2007 I picked up their album And The Glass Handed Kites. Some people may be put off by the foreign-ness of Mew (they’re Danish) as often their lyrics do not translate well…
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An Animated History of the English Language
Having renamed the site “Words With Nate,” it’s only appropriate that I share this. For those of you who don’t have time to read Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue, or Made in America, this is for you: [tentblogger-youtube r9Tfbeqyu2U] You can watch it here, but you may want to just click through so you can…
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Born This Way?
Lady GaGa’s first single off her latest album has turned into a kind of gay anthem, or rather, the song was already a gay anthem and Lady GaGa is just the one who gets paid for singing it. You do have to give her at least that. Not everyone can take something a whole demographic…
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Business for the Common Good
As part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series, Kenman Wong and Scott Rae’s contribution focuses on a Christian view of the business world. As the authors themselves say: The idea that business can be a calling is becoming more widely appreciated and accepted. Yet the question of what exactly business is a calling to needs…