Tough Passages #2: The Adultery of Divorce (Luke 16:18)
In “Tough Passages,” we’re looking at the difficult verses in the Bible that are often brought up by secular people as reasons the Bible doesn’t make sense, and discovering how they actually reveal the character, love, and glory of God…
Free Will and the Adjustment Bureau
Please note that this review of the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau does contain spoilers. • • • When was the last time you made a choice? I don’t mean whether to eat the last cookie or stay awake for another hour…
Hope through Failure and Success
So you failed your New Year’s resolutions last year. This year you vowed the same, maybe even tagging on some more, because this time it will be different. And you headed to the gym on January 1, along with all the other…
Tough Passages #1: Love Your Neighbor (Leviticus 19:17-18)
Whether because it’s been co-opted by a “church person” and used to beat you on the head or because it seems old and out of touch, the Bible (and the idea that you can take it at face value) is unpopular…
Dragons and Babies
Games are powerful. I don’t mean that in the “game systems have a lot of processing horsepower” sense. Games can make us feel something in a way that no other medium can. I could give you dozens of examples from the…
The Not-So-Good Dinosaur
If you’ve only been reading Redeeming Culture for the last couple of months, you could be forgiven for thinking that Star Wars and Christmas are the only two things that have happened since Thanksgiving. But if you did think that, you would have missed…
The War on Christmas
I’ve heard legends of the War on Christmas since I was a small child. If you hear the press about it, it’s a truly terrifying conflict; red coffee cups rain down like mortar shells, “Happy Holidays” carpet bombs are dropped upon unsuspecting…