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• Arts & Leisure

  Art

  • The creaturely work of Paul Cézanne
  • The enduring grace of Leonardo’s Last Supper
  • The broken genius of Frank Lloyd Wright

  Books

  • Mad Men, Rotten Ralph and unrepentant characters
  • A new call for Christian engagement with video games
  • Hearing others’ voices in The Silence and the Roar

  Entertainment

  • Admiration - and a word of caution - for Angelina Jolie
  • Why Adele was wise to turn down that book deal
  • In defense of remakes (even Evil Dead)

  Movies

  • Star Trek’s elusive utopia
  • The Christian virtue in Pain & Gain
  • To the Wonder and Terrence Malick’s disappearing God

  Music

  • Tim Lambesis and the limits of labels
  • Macklemore preaches 1 Corinthians 13:4 on Colbert Report
  • Brad Paisley, Paramore and finding faith at the top of the charts

  Sports

  • ESPN’s surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality
  • Believing in baseball (and Easter)
  • March Madness, Maundy Thursday and rooting for the underdog

  TV

  • Star Trek’s elusive utopia
  • Jim Halpert’s model of male headship
  • Mad Men, Rotten Ralph and unrepentant characters

  Video Games

  • A new call for Christian engagement with video games
  • Playing BioShock Infinite while Mom watches
  • The cultural mandate of SimCity
• Business & Economics

  Economics

  • Bangladesh: The high cost of our low standards
  • Oscar fashion and Christian modesty
  • What that Ram truck ad missed about farming

  Money

  • Wait - now money can buy happiness?
  • Why those on welfare should be allowed to play the lottery
  • Africa for Norway and narratives of pity

  Workplace

  • Why working for the common good isn’t enough
  • Modern parenthood and the myth of the Proverbs 31 woman
  • C. Everett Koop as a Christian in the public square
• Home & Family

  Dating & Singleness

  • What science gets right - and wrong - about love
  • Meeting singleness with sorrow and grace
  • Valentine’s Day dinner deals and true romance

  Family

  • Jim Halpert’s model of male headship
  • Admiration - and a word of caution - for Angelina Jolie
  • How to make a difference despite the Russian adoption ban

  Marriage

  • Jim Halpert’s model of male headship
  • What science gets right - and wrong - about love
  • Why Christians shouldn’t be so snooty about marriage contracts

  Money

  • A new way of ministering to stay-at-home moms
  • Invisible Children and informed giving
  • Can living simply become its own sort of idolatry?

  Parenting

  • What Spring Breakers says about youth formation
  • Steubenville and sexual shalom
  • Modern parenthood and the myth of the Proverbs 31 woman

  Sex

  • Steubenville and sexual shalom
  • Why I still haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Why female empowerment doesn’t have to look like Beyonce
• News & Politics

  Education

  • Smart drugs: playing fair or playing God?
  • Virtual Christian education?
  • Why philosophy should be a priority at Cedarville

  History

  • C. Everett Koop as a Christian in the public square
  • Why ‘novels of belief’ are the exception, not the rule
  • Mankind and Christianity through the eyes of history

  Justice

  • Loving your enemy (combatant)
  • Seeking justice for women in India, even from afar
  • Christian ethics at the National Review and The Dish

  Media

  • Tim Lambesis and the limits of labels
  • Why big data has nothing on God’s omnipotence
  • ESPN’s surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality

  North America

  • Loving your enemy (combatant)
  • The weakness of the Pentagon and the power of the cross
  • Steubenville and sexual shalom

  Politics

  • C. Everett Koop as a Christian in the public square
  • Why those on welfare should be allowed to play the lottery
  • Why Christians should be encouraged by new immigration proposals

  Social Trends

  • Wait - now money can buy happiness?
  • ESPN’s surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality
  • Dove’s beauty campaign and the danger of always looking at ourselves

  World

  • Bangladesh: The high cost of our low standards
  • Loving your enemy (combatant)
  • The weakness of the Pentagon and the power of the cross
• Science & Technology

  Cosmology

  • NASA’s canticle of the sun
  • The Biggitude of God
  • Of gods and aliens

  Environment

  • What that Ram truck ad missed about farming
  • Rebuilding after Sandy: resilience or hubris?
  • Hurricane Sandy through the eyes of Job

  Gadgets

  • Special revelation and Netflix’s House of Cards
  • Driver-less cars and the rise of moral machines
  • Christian tablets and cultural engagement

  Internet

  • Don’t fear Facebook’s ‘Like’ button
  • Why I’m leaving Facebook in 2013
  • Twitter, the pope and theology in 140 characters

  Philosophy

  • A challenge from Kierkegaard on his 200th birthday
  • Faux fur and the death of the real
  • Bonobos, atheists and the source of our moral impulse

  Science

  • Seeing unseen things
  • Children of atom, children of Eve
  • The woolly idea of reviving extinct species

  Technology

  • Seeing unseen things
  • Why big data has nothing on God’s omnipotence
  • Personalizing Netflix and the danger of closed systems
• Theology & The Church

  Christmas & Easter

  • Believing in baseball (and Easter)
  • Good Friday and the promise of the cross
  • March Madness, Maundy Thursday and rooting for the underdog

  Evangelism

  • A new call for Christian engagement with video games
  • Embracing community at South by Southwest
  • Could this be partly why crime is in decline?

  Faith

  • Admiration - and a word of caution - for Angelina Jolie
  • ESPN’s surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality
  • How grammar influences your faith

  Other Religions

  • Shavuot and the Christian significance of Jewish holidays
  • Children of atom, children of Eve
  • Interfaith prayer vigils and worshiping the one true God

  Prayer

  • Tyler Perry, Stephen Colbert and giggling prayer
  • Screen images as neighbors
  • Weeping with Sudan

  The Bible

  • Macklemore preaches 1 Corinthians 13:4 on Colbert Report
  • Why History’s Bible series was worth it
  • Modern parenthood and the myth of the Proverbs 31 woman

  The Church

  • Why we shouldn’t be so quick to set sail with Rob Bell
  • Sheryl Sandberg and leaning in to church
  • How crumbling churches might save themselves

  Theology

  • Shavuot and the Christian significance of Jewish holidays
  • Seeing unseen things
  • Loving your enemy (combatant)

  Worship

  • NASA’s canticle of the sun
  • Interfaith prayer vigils and worshiping the one true God
  • Are the Women of the Wall confusing protest and worship?