Monthly Archives: October 2014

Both Taylor Swift and Sia are wildly successful at writing songs about themselves as their personal approach certainly connects with fans. But where these two artists diverge is far more interesting.

Sing Over Me opens up a safe space for homosexuals who feel — as Jernigan did — in need of rescue.

But what if knowledge wasn’t just the collection of information?

Nothing about my grandma’s descent into darkness was beautiful.

There’s an underlying cynicism in irony-drenched viral marketing, the same philosophy that undergirds the megachurch culture that made the ‘Left Behind’ franchise a hit in the first place.

Even the original Left Behind novel series showed more truth and humanity than the soulless new movie.

God’s happiness for people is seriously complicated, what with the bone-deep sorrow and the crying and everything.

The Walking Dead speaks about us as it reveals our aches and longings. Our world is broken, and yet our hopes need not be dashed.

Believe Me quietly pushes its audience to assess at what point one can become so attached to Christian culture that it keeps them from Christ.

This book is about seeing the glory of Jesus in his miracles.

Rather than being about “our” great big American Christian God, Turner is mostly writing about “their” American Christian God, with the “their” in this case being theologically conservative white Protestant Christians.