christianity
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Fifty Shades of Grey This is depressing: it seems that there is a pornographic novel called Fifty Shades of Grey which is extremely popular among women, and that its plot involves a young woman who gives herself as a masochistic sex slave to a billionaire. Here is one of several commentaries on it which I’ve
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Via Image magazine on Facebook, here is an interesting piece at pop culture mag Paste: a discussion of Sufjan Stevens and the general situation of the Christian artist in an anti-Christian culture. In general it's not anything that anyone familiar with the thinking of writers like Walker Percy hasn't already heard, but it's interesting that it appears here.
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Sunday Night Journal — June 12, 2011 I normally don't get involved in political or religious discussions on Facebook, because I'm "friends" with people who have strong views on all sides, and who needs more rancor in his life? I ventured into one a week or so ago, much against my better judgment, and then
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Sunday Night Journal – April 10, 2011 Not too long ago I heard someone say that the greatest problem facing the country is the intrusion of religion into politics. He was quoting Jimmy Carter, who is generally wrong about both those things, and I thought it was pretty far off the mark to say that
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Sunday Night Journal — March 27, 2011 If you want a single book that will serve as both an introduction to Islam and a careful consideration of its relationship, past and present, to Christianity, I doubt you could do better than this one. The author is an Arab Christian with many years of direct experience
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Sunday Night Journal – March 20, 2011 (I generally try not to give away too much of the plot of a book or movie I’m discussing, but it’s almost impossible to discuss this one without giving away something about how it ends. Since that is more or less revealed, in broad terms, in the beginning,
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Sunday Night Journal — March 6, 2011 Elizabeth Goudge should have been an Inkling. At least from the literary point of view she fits perfectly with those gentlemen who gathered in Oxford at the Eagle and Child, and I’d like to think they would have enjoyed her company, and she theirs. But in any case
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Janet sent me this link with the observation that "he sounds more orthodox than I thought he would." Indeed he does. I'm not the biggest U2 fan, though what I like of their music I like a lot, and have assumed for a long time that their much-reported Christianity didn't amount to very much any
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Sunday Night Journal — December 26, 2010 When I was a child, Christmas was the most wonderful thing in the world to me. The only thing that even came close to matching its appeal was a trip to Florida, to the white sand and blue-green waters of the beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Not
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I know she’s serious, and it’s a serious matter, but I couldn’t help snickering a bit at the way Anne Rice has publicly repudiated Christianity. It sounds so juvenile, like a teenage girl yelling “I just…just…HATE all of you!”, bursting into tears, running off into her room and slamming the door. I really don’t know
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