Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween
“Halloween gives you a great opportunity to show how Christians celebrate the day that death was defeated, and you can give them Gospel tracts…”
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ISIS, Walking Dead and Our Zombie Moral Compass
Honestly, after a good bit of Googling I’m surprised to find just a single mention…
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Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?
Five months before the big-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde…
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Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll
The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a sport through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness.” I couldn’t help but think of Mark Driscoll.
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Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40
This year, 2014, is the 40th anniversary of the game Dungeons & Dragons, the pen-and-paper…
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The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight
It struck me, when reading Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s review of Magic in the Moonlight—in which she notes…
Read MoreSatanic FOIA Reveals Deep Confusion About 1st Amendment
The Satanic Temple, best known for its offer to build a monument to Satan in an attempt…
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How Hell Has Shaped America
What inspired you to write Damned Nation? When I was an undergraduate, I was stunned…
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What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves
There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them…
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“Muscular Christianity” Not to Blame For Driscoll: A Response
When I began attending Mars Hill Church in 2006, its main facility in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood…
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