Oct 18, 2022 Personal Religion Hypocrisy and Unbelief in High School David French’s recent column takes me back to my own high experiences with hypocrisy.
Sep 22, 2022 Literature Nerdery Religion Does the Church Have Room for Science Fiction? Author Sandra Miesel notes the numerous Catholic authors that have made contributions to the “speculative fiction” genre.
Aug 29, 2022 Religion Are You Ready For This Saturday’s Rapture? What can we learn from Harold Camping and his misguided followers?
Aug 29, 2022 Religion Spring Spheres and Christian Persecution Renaming our Easter eggs isn’t the worst thing that the world can do to us.
Aug 24, 2022 Religion Does Faster Church Make for Better Church? I worry that adopting a more pragmatic, consumer-based approach to church and worship shifts our focus.
Aug 18, 2022 Religion The Problem With the “What The *Bleep* Church” That famous church with the shocking sign sure got your attention, but at what cost?
Aug 18, 2022 Religion The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” and the Challenge of Confirmation Bias Though Christians may scoff at King’s assertions, we can use this as an educational experience.
Jun 2, 2020 Politics Religion The Religious Dissonance of My Youth The religious leaders of my youth have some explaining to do.
Feb 26, 2019 Best of Opus Literature Religion The Safe Mediocrity of Christian Art Christians have often been guilty of promoting and encouraging art that denies the complexities of human existence.
Jan 2, 2019 Music Religion There Can Be so Much More to Christian Music Given its frequent tendency to simply copy secular music, it’s easy to become jaded aboutChristian music.
Dec 18, 2018 Best of Opus Religion Pastor Wang Yi’s Declaration of Faithful Disobedience The pastor was arrested along with his wife and parishioners by the Chinese government.
Nov 13, 2017 Best of Opus Politics What keeps us from falling down? Once again, the moral failure at the heart of American Christianity is exposed for all to see.
Jun 10, 2017 Reading Weekend Reads: Wonder Woman, Studio Ghibli’s Theme Park, Cowboy Bebop, Bernie Sanders, Christianity’s Decline & More Also: The decline of Contemporary Christian Music, Google Chrome’s ad blocker, Harvard and online privacy, and conspiracy theories of the Left.
Oct 25, 2016 Politics Religion Russell Moore: “Can the Religious Right Be Saved?” Christians must seriously consider what, exactly, informs and shapes our primary identity. (Hint: It’s not Republican politics.)
Apr 20, 2016 Best of Opus Religion Youth Group Nostalgia Can Be Bittersweet As I’ve heard more stories from folks my age about their church experiences, I realize how fortunate I was as a kid.
Oct 30, 2015 Reading Reading: The Innocence Mission, Final Fantasy X, Video game girlfriends, Donald Trump, Bacon & more Also: Technology and dead relatives, Stephen King vs. Stanley Kubrick, midnight movies, creatio ex nihilo, and Ms. Marvel.
Oct 24, 2015 Reading Reading: Comic Book Theology, Evangelion, Sexual Abuse in the Bible, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Christian Expansion, & More Also: Alien civilizations, musical nostalgia, revisiting classic Christian albums, video games as digital literature, social media darkness, music’s ongoing devaluation, and removing advertising’s influence.