This is the third installment in Advent All Around, a Think Christian series that sees reflections of Advent in the culture at large. Previous pieces appeared on the first and second Sundays of Advent. We light the third advent candle today - the curiously pink candle - for the shepherds… [more]
Theology & The Church
Returning troops and moral injury
The song title was made famous during World War II. It was the dream of every member of the vast United States military. Many had served for years; they had not seen their families, had heard from family only intermittently and had lived through violent battles. So as the war… [more]
Images, icons and faith
Images are powerful. More than “holding a thousand words,” as the adage goes, images carry a power and weight that can strike us to the core. They speak to the depths of our emotional, social and spiritual lives in ways that we cannot always verbalize, but which impact us nonetheless.… [more]
Good reasons to be a Grinch
Is it just me, or does it seem like The Holidays are out to kill us? Leave it to America to take important spiritual and social events - holy days - and turn them into toxic, greed-driven bacchanals of materialism and excess. The Holidays have traditionally been kicked off with… [more]
What testosterone levels can teach us about Christian living
A recent study found that men who spend three or more hours a day on childcare experience a drop in testosterone. When I first saw reports about this study, I wasn't sure what to make of it. Tweets on the subject seemed dominated by a “watch out, dudes” tone and… [more]
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Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Xioc1138 While it is true that some in science think that this will disprove God when we find the "god particle," others believe that this will simply further our knowledge on the building blocks that God created to create our universe.
How the Large Hadron Collider reveals the mind of God
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations