Books… Caught In Traffic: A Review of “The Georgraphy of Nowhere” by James Howard Kunstler 4 Jun 20125 Jun 2012 "Eighty percent of everything built in America has been built in the last fifty years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading" (10). So writes James Howard…
Books… A Pseudo-Christian Nation: A Review of “Bad Religion” by Ross Douthat 28 May 201229 May 2012 America is not a healthy nation. Socially we have a host of ills that seem to be getting worse with each new election year. For some the blame lies at…
Culture… Freedom Through Submission: Reflections on The Avengers Movie 6 May 20127 May 2012 “Freedom is the biggest lie in life.” Westerners and Americans in particular are a people obsessed with the ideal of freedom, and rightfully so. Those who have experienced the bonds…
Art… This Is My Father’s World: Fashion 26 Apr 2012 I've seen the fools of the local Wal-Mart festooned in their audacious apparel: the girl in the baggy sweat pants and fuzzy slippers, the man with his jeans around his…
Culture When The Shift Hits The Fan (Part 3) 26 Apr 201227 Apr 2012 As changes have occurred at the national level they have also been dispersed throughout the land to individual cities, even small cities. There are several major ways that these ideas, this Postmodern worldview…
Asides… This Is My Father’s World: Shopping 19 Apr 2012 Is there anything even remotely redeemable about shopping? The very thought of it makes me cringe. Walking for hours through a massive mall full of mass-produced poorly made products and bumping into…
Culture… When The Shift Hits The Fan (Part 2) 18 Apr 201219 Apr 2012 Read part 1 Postmodernism is almost impossible to define, and serves more as a “junk-draw” term for anything that is anti-modernism. A frequently discussed feature, however, of Postmodernism is epistemology. “Epistemology”…
Culture When The Shift Hits The Fan (Part 1) 12 Apr 201213 Apr 2012 Back when Revolution Church was first launching I wrote a post for the website that garnered a lot of attention (both good and bad). In the post I explored the…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters (Part 34): A Theology of Culture (Part 1) 11 Apr 201212 Apr 2012 Already at 8 a.m. it was getting warm. The sun was bright in the sky and I sat in a small café in Morocco trying to drink my coffee. It was…
Asides… This Is My Father’s World: The Bumbling Hero 4 Apr 2012 "I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am the raspberry seed you can't floss out. I am the bumbling hero!" I have a heart for this poor class…
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