“Barton is either very deceptive or incredibly ignorant, and in either case he is not a man that Christians should be relying on for a historical justification of their political movement.”
“If they really wanted The New Girl to become a success, they would have to step up their game. The show would have to mature – and in order for that to happen, so would the characters.”
“The leaked photographs from this week give clear evidence that too many American soldiers are no longer fit and disciplined to conduct war justly.”
“If that sort of intimacy makes a man nervous, then he might have forgotten that he is part of the bride of Christ.”
“What if the protective one-way mirror that supports the slasher sub-genre’s one-dimensional characters and our demand that they be relentlessly sexualized and punished was, in a sense, broken — or, at least, turned inside out?”
“The question is if edgy-and-fast is the key decision factor customers consult when selecting mobile companies.”
Christian artists should be more willing to see themselves as entertainers.
“Why do we feel we have the right to re-appropriate anything we want in the digital realm, even an entire person?”
“There is more to me than my womanhood, and there is more to me than how I looked in the mirror this morning.”
“In a single day we are presented with the all the big choices that reveal our inner character: between faithfulness and lust, truth and lies, heaven and hell, life and death.”
“. . . If we don’t ever force ourselves to put up our phones and be available to those around us, we may never be available to them”
“When leaders fail to take care of their personal business, it taints the very structure of the organization that the players work within.”
“The dichotomy between mothers who work outside the home and those who don’t is false, unnecessarily divisive, and intentionally distracting.”
“To treat literature as it is (a story) rather than converting it into something it is not (a sermon or a systematic theology) is not to somehow do violence to our worldview or our theology; it is to embrace the fact that in Christ we have the fulfillment of all story.”
Guest writer David Roark finds the same old problems in Blue Like Jazz as in previous “Christian” films.
“One of my favorite musical ‘genres’ in recent months has been video game soundtracks.”
