In this ounce of Persuasion fast chat, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson assess the IHOP / IHOB’s failed online communication to a previous conversation discuss the need for better online engagement.
What if the mundane areas of your life are actually not quite so mundane?
The convenience of fake news (and current “time travel” stories) may have increased exponentially in recent years, but the tendency for wishful thinking to override our commitment to reality has always been with us.
Like Daly in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” guns and technology allow us to imagine a world in which we call the shots.
We pay lip service to the idea that no one is truly perfect, but do we really believe it?
We pull quotes out of context to justify or support any argument, often with little care to how the larger narrative (of Scripture or of Dr. King’s life and work) would help us interpret the one little snippet we want to use.
In The Dollop, our past is often more than just our past. Sometimes, it’s our present and future.
Flawed and frightening as the #ChurchToo movement may be, the Christian community’s redemptive power as those indwelled by the Holy Spirit is greater.
Those who are lonely during this season don’t need to be mocked or called out or even lightly teased for their viewing habits.
The #MeToo campaign, however imperfect, fashioned fellowship out of isolation.
If we’re unfamiliar with the overall context, we can easily be led astray by statements that are true but still misleading.
The VidAngel approach to Game of Thrones forced me to think critically about why I watch the things I do.
In The Tech-Wise Family, Andy Crouch provides a fresh articulation of how the nature of technology can be conflict with the purpose and intention of home, family, and community.
Rather than framing our offense as a moral stance or an end in itself, we need to learn to frame it as an opportunity.
For Kevin Porter of Gilmore Guys, hospitality looked like a podcast with a posture of welcome and inclusion.
S-Town bears out the shared fate of body and place.
