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Overfed but Undernourished: Reality Television
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
Reality TV exploits the petty desires of average people. Fame, fashion, and fortune are creatively packaged in modern versions of the Cinderella story.
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Questions for Lost People
BY: Denis Haack
Often, Walker Percy says in Lost in the Cosmos, the sense of our predicament arrives in pangs of disappointment that stretch across our entire existence. That is, if we stop being distracted long enough to notice.
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Questions from an Athiest
BY: Denis Haack
One of the selections Christopher Hitchens includes in his The Portable Atheist is from A Farewell to God by Charles Templeton. In it, Templeton raises a series of probing questions; the sort of questions which are often raised when belief in God is discussed.
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Reflecting Theologically on Popular Culture as Meaningful: The Role of Sin, Grace, and General Revelation
BY: Theodore A. Turnau III
It has become commonplace to accept that popular culture is a subject worthy of serious study from any number of disciplinary perspectives. Even more recently, religion departments have begun taken an interest in popular culture.
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Repose in Grace
BY: Denis Haack
“John Calvin believed that an unredeemed life keeps oscillating back and forth between pride (‘I’ve made it!’) and despair (‘I’ll never make it!’). In his view, redemption gives people security, or (one of Calvin’s favorite words) repose. His idea was that those who lean into God’s grace and let it hold them up can then drop some of their performance anxiety.”
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On my desk is a little vase of flowers cut from our yard, a little reminder of the beauty that is all around if we only have eyes to see. I've needed that reminder after reading the latest news of the horrific oil spill in the Gulf. Such glory in this world, such brokenness. Such hope, such deep need for redemption. These are the realities of life and death we seek to explore on this web site. Thank you for visiting.
Denis & Margie
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