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• RIP Report: George Carlin

Hey everybody, I’m on a two week hiatus from blogging, but I had to come back on to say a few words about George Carlin. It is eerie that he is gone, I was just talking about him with my crew at UPS on Friday night. Most of my crew is filled with first or [...]

• Write for Engaging Culture

Are you an open-minded Christian who loves movies, entertainment, art, and the like? Do you enjoy writing? Have you thought about starting your own blog, or have a blog but are struggling with getting readers? How would you like to join me in writing here at Engaging Culture? I’d love for this site to grow, [...]

• Failing Seminary for the Glory of God

GoingtoSeminary.com has some good advice for those entrenched in Seminary or theological college. Seminary isn’t the most important thing! Some of their tips: Give the wrong answer, Ignore your GPA, Put your family first, and Love the Church. Here’s an excerpt.
The seminary has become a place of information and not transformation. The focus has been [...]

• Science Fiction and Faith

I’m in a really cool class at Southern right now on Christianity and Science Fiction. Yeah, I know, your Cooperative Program dollars hard at work. But it has actually been fabulous and very compelling. For our final project we have been charged with the task of answering two crucial questions.

What is a biblical and theological [...]

• Princeton Theological Review FREE

Issue 36 is all about Theology and the Arts. Drool.

• A Dad Shaped Hole?

At sixty-one years old, Sylvester Stallone shouted and shot a fifty-caliber cannon, halting the progress of any who wish to mutilate and murder the missionaries and mercenaries trying to bring light to a lifeless land. After the bloodbath, Stallone sighs, looking like a leathery god as actress Julie Benz gapes upward in awe. There is [...]

• Expelled Preview Screening

If the posters popping up around campus are to be believed, there will be a preview screening at Southern of the new Ben Stein documentary on intelligent design, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” on April 1st. I had trouble believing it at first, It sounds like a cruel prank that Dr. Moore might play on his [...]

• Christ… The Resurrection

An expressionist representation of Christ as resurrection by Cornelis Monsma.

Jesus is our hope for resurrection. He gave comfort to Martha with the words, “I am the resurrection and the life.” Without the resurrection, we would be fools, worshiping a dead man. But Jesus is alive! He is risen! He is risen indeed! Happy Easter, celebrate [...]

• Easter Should Disturb Us

Dr. Moore comments on the trend among some publisher of Sunday school curricula to water down the presentation of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus to preschoolers saying that it is too scary. He says:
This Easter, preach the Gospel… to the senior citizens, to the middle-aged, to the young adults, to the teenagers, to [...]

• Hyper-Calvinism

Tim Challies attempts to clear up age-old confusion between the biblical doctrines of Calvinism and the ugly heresy of Hyper-Calvinism.

• Calvinist Infestation

Mark Dever ponders “Where did all these Calvinists come from” in a 10 post series.

• Essential Piper Library

My introduction to Dr. John Piper was in college, through a free cassette tape of one of his sermons which I picked up at a church in Dothan, Alabama while doing some drama for a JAM team there. My car at the time had no CD player and if you’ve ever tried to listen to [...]

• The Fountain (2006)

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An odyssey of one man and his eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. The primary focus is on modern-day scientist Tommy Creo (Hugh Jackman), who is desperate to find a cure for the cancer killing his beloved wife, [...]

• Conversations with God (2006)

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These “conversations” are based on the best-selling books by Neal Donald Walsch. Canadian actor Henry Czerny (”The Exorcism of Emily Rose”) plays author Walsch, who was at his lowest point when he found a new purpose for his life.
According to [...]

• I’m a Heretic

Jerry Falwell recently proclaimed from his self-appointed papal pulpit that limited atonement is heresy. Then I guess I’m a heretic. Sorry I let you down Dr. Falwell.
Of course if I believed everything else that Dr. Falwell believes I would be correct to say that limited atonement is incorrect. If I believed that Christ’s death [...]

• A Beautiful Analogy

I can only wish that I wrote this. I have in fact thought it before. However, I lacked the time, talent, and knowledge of beer to write it myself. With that being said, enjoy this great analogy between beers and theological persuasions by Erik Raymond (a.k.a. The Irish Calvinist)
People have described some of the contemporary [...]

• What’s Your Theological Worldview?

No big surprise here.

You scored as Reformed Evangelical. You are a Reformed Evangelical. You take the Bible very seriously because it is God’s Word. You most likely hold to TULIP and are skeptical about the possibilities of universal atonement or resistible grace. The most important thing the Church can do is make sure people [...]

• Swearing on the Qur’an

Newly elected democratic representative from Minnesota says he will not take his oath of office on the Bible. Instead, Keith Ellison will use an English translation of the Qur’an once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Ellison, born in Detroit, converted to Islam in college and believes that this bold move should make the point that “religious [...]

• James Brown and Gerald Ford

What do the recent deaths of the “Godfather of Soul” and America’s 38th president have in common?
Brown died at a relatively young age of 73, while Ford was the ripe old age of 93 when he passed. Brown was a trendsetter, Ford was following in the wake of Nixon. Brown was “the hardest working [...]

• What Christmas Is All About

“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” - J. I. Packer
What are some of your [...]

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