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Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Is Your Identity As You Like It?

By Robin Dembroff

If the world is a stage, we like putting on the same shows. The Matrix, The Truman Show, Equilibrium…not original. Even in Shakespeare’s 17th century comedy As You Like It, we confront the suggestion that the world is a sham and humans are the sham’s pawns. At surface-level, the play is a ball...

March 8th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Media | Read More

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

By Robin Dembroff

You know…I just don’t feel like writing an introduction. So shoot me! (Oh, but do check out the top 100 films.) 1. It’s rare for a company to admit to child labor, much less do their own investigation — let’s hope systemic solutions will quickly follow. 2. How to use that...

March 5th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

You Are A Muggle

By Picturing the Word

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed the first podcast and are excited to continue to discuss what makes a hero and a myth. For the second class, we watched: Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) The Last Son of Krypton from “Superman: The Animated Series” Pilot from “Smallville” Superman on Earth from...

March 4th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film, Other, Picturing the Word | Read More

David Cameron on The Next Age of Government – Lunch w/ TED

By Dustin R. Steeve

If there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives can agree on it is this: that an informed citizenry is both necessary and beneficial to the growth and flourishing of a democratic nation. This week’s Lunch with TED features David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative party in the United Kingdom...

March 4th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Lunch with TED | Read More

Classics for the Contemporary Christian: The Straits of Orthodoxy

By Robin Dembroff

I have a bone to pick with G.K. Chesterton about his book Orthodoxy. It took me a ridiculously long time to read. He just had to go and make every sentence so delicious and profound that I was forced to sit back after every line in order to laugh at his wit or furiously scribble notes. Think I’m...

March 3rd, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Media, Religion, Worldviews | Read More

A Killer in Captivity

By Amy Cannon

The killer whale killing of this last Wednesday has received a lot press. Video footage of the trainer’s shocking death has gone viral, which hackers have used as a vehicle to spread actual viruses. This has aroused as much righteous indignation as the prurience which motivates millions of hits...

March 2nd, 2010 | Bioethics, Creation Care, Media | Read More

Dear Christian: Sigh No More

By Robin Dembroff

As if four vocalists, two drum sets, guitars, organ and piano aren’t enough, Mumford & Sons also employs banjo, dobro, mandolin, and well-crafted lyrics to pierce their listener with sublime melodies. A brand new folk indie-rock band based out of London, Mumford & Sons‘ first album,...

March 1st, 2010 | Art & Literature, Culture, Media, Music | Read More

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

By Robin Dembroff

If you are amused by the aesthetics of Disney zombie art or Nietzschean cartoons, intrigued by articles on C.S. Lewis or how to think about sin or–this is the best one–interested in how you are actually being productive by reading this 33 Things rather than tackling that to-do list, this...

February 26th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

Harry Potter and Superman – The Struggle Between Film and Imagination

By Picturing the Word

Hello! And welcome to Picturing the Word! We’re your hosts, Danielle Howe and John Sirjord. So what’s this all about? Well… This podcast is both a continuation and a response to a class that John and I are taking through the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University.  The class, titled Heroes...

February 25th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film, Picturing the Word | Read More

J.J. Abrams on Story, Technology, and “Mystery Boxes” – Lunch w/ TED

By Lauren Myracle

Our “Lunch with TED” feature is back—and here to stay. (For the uninitiated, see Dustin’s original TED post here.) To commemorate this momentous occasion (and, frankly, the return of Lost, now in its sixth season) I chose to highlight a TED Talk by one of my favorite filmmakers—J.J. Abrams,...

February 25th, 2010 | Lunch with TED | Read More

Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Er…Kommunistischen?

By Robin Dembroff

Communism’ is a likely candidate for ‘touchiest word of the 20th century’. While the word evokes many high-charged reactions, two seem consistent among American conservatives: First, communism is associated with naïve hippies who think there should be no war and want to sing ‘Why Can’t We...

February 24th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Politics, Worldviews | Read More

Scriptorium Daily

• Notes from a Theology Flyover at 50,000 Feet March 14, 2010
  What if you could survey the entire scope of Christian doctrine at once: a brief enough summary to show the whole thing at a glance, but with enough detail to see the various parts and how they relate to each other? As a stand-alone experience, that wouldn’t be especially valuable: it would be too [...] […]
  Fred Sanders
• How I Loathe the Tea Parties March 13, 2010
  Once I had a membership card in the Moral Majority and my wife listens to Dr. James Dobson. We work at Biola University, a flagship university for conservative Christians in the United States. Recent media reports about our fear of the Tea Parties certainly describe our feelings . . . though they underplay the terror and loathing [...] […]
  John Mark Reynolds