Articles By: Robin Dembroff

Robin Dembroff is a student at the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, pursuing degrees in Philosophy and English Literature. Her writing has been recognized by the Visalia Times Delta, Ayn Rand Institute, Michael L. Roston Creative Writing Contest, Torn Curtain – The Zine, Biola English Guild’s St. John the Apostle Paper Conference, and the Biola History/Gov’t/Social Science Department’s J.O. Henry Award.

Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Freud’s Non-Libidinal Rub

What do you want, purpose or happiness? If you don’t think the two pursuits are exclusive, take it up with Freud, who says as much in his treatise Civilization and its Discontents. “The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system,” he said. “We will therefore...
March 15th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Religion | Read More

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

Masculine slang-Victorian style, disagreements about Tim Burton, Godzilla, Symbols, Color-by-number toilet paper…oh…and even a little politics. (Meh!) 1. Forty “Bad” Books, according to the “experts”. 2. I Stopped Denying People: Ex- Bank of America CSR Tells All 3....
March 12th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

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

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

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

Classics for the Contemporary Christian: The Straits of Orthodoxy

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

Dear Christian: Sigh No More

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

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

Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Er…Kommunistischen?

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

33 Things: The Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links

Welcome to this week’s 33 Things! New academic fields, building Hogwarts, and a visual look at The Communist Manifesto…have at it!Corpse Art: Aesthetic Arrangements of Diseased Flies . Ten Literary Classics that Should Be Videogames . A review of Dante’s Inferno, the video game. . Beat...
February 19th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More

33 Things: This Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links

Theology of sports, first hand accounts from Haiti, a good word on JD Salinger and—oh yeah—a White House spokesman giggling at his own joke. If you can’t find something you like, go read Wikipedia.1. Reporter Fail! (Epic Fail!) 2. “Refiguring the Sacred Feminine: The Poems of...
February 12th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More