The Archive
Christopher Benson
Why do people fail to acknowledge the reality of evil? My progressive friends––a list which is getting shorter and shorter––were baffled by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. They lacked a vocabulary and worldview to describe what happened. […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Over the past few months, I have been incredibly grateful for the incredible feedback and support in my hour of need: coming up with a title for my yet unfinished book. It’s an enormous challenge to name a book (though […]
Christopher BensonPhilosophy
If you are skeptical about postmodern thought, I encourage you to check out "The Church and Postmodern Series" by Baker Academic, which "features high-profile theorists in
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
James Davidson Hunter's To Change the World has been hailed as one of the most important analyses of evangelicalism in recent memory. Our own ridiculously prolific guest-blogger
Christopher Benson
Maya Angelou says he “thinks like a sage, acts like a warrior and writes like a poetical prophet.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. says he is “the pre-eminent African-American intellectual of our generation.” And Marian Wright Edelman says he is “one […]
Christopher BensonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
We have seen it before and we will see it again: the culture wars played out in the American cinema house, this time covering the topics of same-sex marriage,
Tex
Vital spark of heav’nly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister […]
Jake MeadorUncategorized
I just finished reading Diablo Cody's Candy Girl, a memoir of the year she worked in the sex industry. When I first put the book down one of
Christopher BensonMusic
Music has undergone serious theological neglect according to Jeremy Begbie, a professionally trained musician and theologian at Duke Divinity School. In his introduction to Theology, Music and Time, he writes:
TexUncategorized
Our parents and grandparents had Patton and MacArthur; we got stuck with McChrystal, although, if you believe everything that Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings says, McChrystal is the real deal—
Christopher Benson
Jesus taught that “people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19). As an anthropological and ethical statement, this is unequivocally true. But do we need physical darkness? In a National Geographic article entitled […]
Christopher BensonFormation
We all struggle with rest. The paradox of modernity, according to theologian Colin Gunton, is that "a world dedicated to the pursuit of leisure and of machines that save