This is not an article concerned with race—that is, “pro-this” and “anti-that.” This is an article about privilege, a force whose effects are potent yet so well assimilated that those who have the most of it fail to realize it…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
RELIGION SAVES by MARK DRISCOLL
4.9 of 5 The bottom line: A superb handbook of practical theology made accessible to all. Provides comprehensive biblical principles to navigate through life’s more complicated dilemmas and answers the tough questions. In the author’s own words, “[R]eligion…
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POLITICAL APATHY: MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS 2014
Political apathy: lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern about politics in general. Wikipedia defines it as “the indifference on the part of any citizen of any country with regard to their attitude towards political activities.” This is not an article…
THE PALEO DIET by LOREN CORDAIN
3.5 of 5 The bottom line: A solid blueprint and case for eating the paleo way, lacking some proofs and boldly proclaiming some miscalculations as fact. The basic premise of The Paleo Diet is that the human machine…
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ON IDOLATRY
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines idolatry as “extreme admiration, love, or reverence for something or someone.” In a biblical sense, idolatry is the worship of anything or anyone other than God. Worship needs not be confined to “primitive” cultic…
ON THE INCARNATION by ATHANASIUS
4.99 (of 5) The bottom line: A powerful and persuasive apologetic exposition on the Incarnation and the divinity of Christ written by a theological genius. On the Incarnation was written over 1500 years ago by the bishop of the…
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ON MORAL PANIC
I have long held the assumption that the media’s role in modern society is not, in fact, to objectively report events that happen in the world but rather to selectively choose those stories that serve an ideological end—the news, then,…
