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Unity and Reconciliation in Bizarro World: Johnson University Black History...
Johnson University’s kickoff to Black History month provided black and white perspectives on Unity and Reconciliation in the body of Christ from Efrem Smith, CEO & President at World Impact, and...
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Why Lent is a lot like Surfing
Don’t you think it’s a little odd to give up something for Lent in order to worship a Savior who told us to remember him by eating carbs and drinking alcohol?
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St Patrick’s Day Quiz: Can You Guess the Saint’s Greatest Accomplishment?
The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement. (Hint: It’s not green beer.)
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Trump and the Resurrection, by Christena Cleveland
Given the changing racial dynamics in the U.S., it is no surprise many voters gravitate toward Trump’s blaming people of color for America’s problems. But the resurrection teaches us that it doesn’t...
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Scripture and Culture-Making: What Christian Colleges could Learn from...
Today’s teenagers know abundant details about the lives of favorite musicians and television stars or about what it takes to get into a good college, but most are not very clear on who Moses and Jesus...
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The Holy Spirit and the Liberal Arts: The Future of Two-Handed Higher Education
The common perception that orthodoxy finally prevailed because of “One Athanasius against the world” is far too individualistic an interpretation. The battle was actually, “One Christian college...
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The Second Great Awakening: From Rural Revival to a National Social Movement
More than a century before the New Deal, Public Education, and Civil Rights movements, the Second Great Awakening fostered a nation-wide “benevolent empire” of churches care for the poor, freedom for...
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I’m a Christian and I Hate Christian Movies, by Alissa Wilkinson
Some of the most popular faith-based movies today aren’t just sub-par entertainment — they’re anti-Christian.
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Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity, by...
“If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.” – Virginia Woolf
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‘Hence’ Plagiarism: Professor’s Criticism of Latina Honor Student’s...
My last name and appearance immediately instills a set of biases before I have the chance to open my mouth. The professor’s “blue pen was the catalyst that opened an ocean of self-doubt that I worked...
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Jesus and the Dispossessed, by Justin Phillips
If white evangelicals wish to be reconciled with people of color, then they should confess precisely how they have been possessed by something other than the faith they proclaim, irrespective of the...
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2016 Movies and TV Reflect Americans’ Changing Relationship with Faith, by...
Art provides a place for us to deal with our own fears and search for meaning. Entertainment lets us do this together. When we’re trying to figure out one another while also sorting out our own...
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Infographic Analysis: Another Reason Why MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech Was So...
“That which is belittled in plain speech finds the respect it warrants in the subtleties of metaphor.” -Donald Braun
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Andrew Garfield on the Ignatian journey that led him through ‘Silence’ and...
“What was really easy was falling in love with this person, was falling in love with Jesus Christ. That was the most surprising thing.” -Andrew Garfield
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Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God: The Great Awakening and the Birth of...
Think the fiery Puritan who preached America’s most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of Angry God,” would threaten to dangle celebrities over the pit of hell? Think again.
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Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Our Strange New Evangelical America, by...
So many people my age feel abandoned by our own older faith heroes. In dire national circumstances, we have watched several of our evangelical heroes abandon the ideals they have taught us–urging us...
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Scripture and Culture-Making: What Christian Colleges could Learn from...
Today’s teenagers know abundant details about the lives of favorite musicians and television stars or about what it takes to get into a good college, but most are not very clear on who Moses and Jesus...
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The Second Great Awakening: From Rural Revival to National Social Movement
More than a century before the New Deal, Public Education, or the Civil Rights movements, the Second Great Awakening fostered a nation-wide “benevolent empire” of care for the poor, freedom for the...
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Ash Wednesday Logic: Why Lent is a More Like Moana than Monty Python
At first glance fasting makes about as much sense as the head-bonking monks in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
View ArticleThe Ride: Connecting to God in Hollywood, the Ivy League, and Beyond
Spiritual disciplines are designed not so much to “get you somewhere” in your career as much as to keep you alive spiritually in a constantly shifting landscape of success and failure.
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