The Archive

Every essay.

AnodosembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and Practice

Solving the Three Aesthetic Problems

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part V - Solving the Three Problems While it may be possible to tackle these three

Keith E. BuhlerembodimentDevotionalTheology and Practice

Fasting for Self-Control

When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should, an ugly metal statue in place of the Kaaba. When you fast, good habits gather

Anodosembodiment

Relativism, Immodesty, Evangelism

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part IV – Relativism, Modesty, Evangelism It is here that contemporary Christians bring a unique and needed element into the cultural climate, for we ask […]

TexFormation

Fasting for Feasting

Fasting and feasting has long been a part of all the sane religions of the world. YHWH kept the Jews busy with feasting and fasting all the year long, both to remember and to celebrate His work among them and […]

TexUncategorized

Africa: Savior of the Arab World?

The Middle East is backwards, benighted, and unable to overcome its age old cycle of violence and corruption—at least that’s line fed to the West by media pundits,

Anodosembodiment

The Three Aesthetic Problems

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical Understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part III – The Three Aesthetic Problems How can the Bible inform our understanding of fashion today? Surely the runways of Milan are a different […]

AnodosrevelationembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and Practice

A Brief History of Clothing

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part II - A Brief History of Clothing The wool dress I saw at Biola began

AnodosembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and Practice

The Sword and the Shaving Brush - Towards a Biblical Understanding of Fashion

The Sword and the Shaving Brush, Part I Towards a Christian understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part I It was a dress made out of wool—not finely spun

TexInternational Politics

"Advances in Global Health" Symposium: Less Thought, More Rhetoric

The air was full of excitement and promise as the hundreds of people attending Pacific Lutheran University’s “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations” symposium last evening, jauntily

Matthew Lee Anderson

Movie Week at Mere-0: No Country for Old Men

In honor of the Oscars this Sunday, I thought I would devote this week to the five films nominated for Best Picture. So far I have reviewed Juno, Michael Clayton, Atonement, and There Will Be Blood. No Country for Old […]

Tex

"Advances In Global Health" Symposium: A Response

I’m still reeling from my exposure to a full two hours of rhetoric without substance at the symposium on “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations.” The radical difference between the conference keynote speaker’s view of the world and my […]

TexTheology and PracticeBooksFormation

Gary Thomas on "Sacred Marriage"

After reviewing "Sacred Marriage," an insightful book suggesting that Christians would do well to view their marriages as a means to holiness, I was pleasantly surprised to receive