You’re familiar with photobombing – when someone unexpectedly appears in a picture as it is being taken. Is faithbombing next? In an American society where religion is increasingly being removed from the public square, one recent high-school graduate protested his district’s move toward banning prayer from school events by ripping… [more]
Theology & The Church
True empathy amidst awareness overload
I wonder if it's a uniquely modern problem that we seem to be always exposed to terrible things that are happening elsewhere in the world or the United States. This spring the bombing in Boston occurred within days of a fertilizer factory explosion in West, Tex. Only a month later,… [more]
Stephen King on God (though don’t hold him to it)
While talking with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross yesterday to promote his new book, Joyland, novelist Stephen King spent a good deal of time discussing his religious upbringing and whether or not he believes in God. Joyland is set in a 1973 amusement park, and that led King to compare carnival… [more]
Joss Whedon’s death-defying graduation speech
Joss Whedon is a bad, bad man. At least, that’s the common phrase fans use to describe him when he breaks their hearts. In projects like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Serenity, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and The Avengers, Whedon loves to abruptly kill off beloved characters to force his… [more]
Admiration - and a word of caution - for Angelina Jolie
I thought I was long past being shocked by the beautiful Angelina Jolie. After all, the days of her showing up with vials of blood around her neck or making out with her brother on stage are long past. And certainly I’ve become used to her radical morph from femme… [more]
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wmrharris This is such a quintessentially youthful act, and like all such acts more a claim of personal autonomy against some adult or imposing world.
Is that Lord’s Prayer graduation speech a form of faithbombing?
john van sloten I think our ubiquitous exposure to tragedy...also skews us in another way; leaving us with a perception that the world is way more broken than it really is.
True empathy amidst awareness overload
Allison Backous It is a good model for all of us to pursue conversation that requires us to be active, not just people who leave soundbites and judgment.
ESPN’s surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality
Jonathan Downie Unless we are going to go down the road of linguistic determinism (which would limit God as well as our understanding of God), it would seem somewhat naive to assume that we have trouble understanding some concepts simply because of grammar.
How grammar influences your faith
Vincent Bacote Chances are a lot of the people who are turned off by the term "Christian" or who have legitimately hurtful experiences in church are also people who hope that people are willing to give them multiple second chances for their flaws and errors as they head down the road of life. I wonder if the church ... will be given the same second chances as well.
Marcus Mumford: ‘I wouldn’t call myself a Christian’ Now what?
Micah J. Murray I've struggled with this myself because, like Mumford, I've felt that the word has so much baggage. I think I've come to the conclusion though that I can't really get away from the word, because it describes my faith.
Marcus Mumford: ‘I wouldn’t call myself a Christian’ Now what?