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  • Mae: (a)fternoon

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] There is a scene in the movie High Fidelity where Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is sitting on the floor organizing his album collection autobiographically. This series is going to be kind of like that, but reversed. Whereas Rob’s records were being organized on the…

  • In the Beginning Was the Word: Language – A God-Centered Approach

    Vern Poythress is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The present volume is the second of three in a series by investigating disciplines related to the field of New Testament studies. Published after the book on science and before the book on sociology, this treatment of language is perhaps the…

  • A New Way To Be Human

    [This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] About a dozen years ago, a band from San Diego released their sophomore album. Very few people at the time could have predicted the later rise of this particular trio of musicians into mainstream prominence and widespread acclaim. The band itself wasn’t in a race…

  • Meaning At The Movies

    Author Grant Horner is associate professor of English at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, CA. In Meaning at the Movies, he offers “an extended meditation on why we have movies at all, why they are so powerful, and why Christians need to think deeply and theologically about film art—indeed, about all human cultural production”…

  • John Calvin On Living in Florida

    Commenting on Isaiah 13:10 (For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light), Calvin says: [W]hen the sun and moon and stars shine in heaven, God may be said to cheer us by his…

  • Summer Jams

    This post is a kind of precursor to a new series I’ll start later this week. In the meantime, I just thought I’d share what the soundtrack to my summer looks like. In no particular order, here’s some albums I’ve picked up recently that are in heavy iPod/iPhone rotation. [If you’re reading this in an…

  • Casey Anthony and the Gospel

    Up until about 6 weeks ago, I would not have been able to identify the person in this picture. While in the tire section waiting room at Wal-Mart (because of this incident), I noticed the TV was turned to a live court case, and that was my introduction to Casey Anthony. What was then and now…

  • Theology and Harry Potter

    Well, today is the day. Or if you’re super nerdy, last night was the night. Either way, the final Harry Potter film is now in theaters, which I think we can all agree is the best 8 part movie franchise. Are you planning to see it, or have you already? Or are you more or…

  • The (Christian?) Movie Formula

    This was all over the web a few weeks ago (I got it here). I think I even tumbl’d it myself. I find it interesting because it correlates with a sub-point of my thesis. It may just be me, but when I see this chart, I see an analog trinity (lowercase “t”), who in the face of…

  • The Tipping Point and The Imago Dei

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] A couple of weeks ago I read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. I’m not entirely sure where I first heard of Gladwell, but Tim Challies gives him a solid recommendation in The Next Story so maybe that was what did it for me. Regardless, Gladwell…