The Tight-Fisted Hand at the Grindstone
Welcome to Redeeming Culture! What follows is an adaptation of a scene from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This is our second Christmas fiction, and I hope you like the story of a Scrooge who can’t save himself. • • •…
Franksgiving and Humiliation Day (with All the Trimmings)
Last year, I called Thanksgiving the holiday that consumerism couldn’t destroy. “Thanksgiving has staunchly resisted the crass commercialism that took Christmas,” I said. It’s still my favorite holiday for that reason, but it hasn’t always been the holiday we know and…
Refugees from the City of Light
All of us involved with Redeeming Culture were devastated by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Baghdad, Beirut, and Yola. We wish a God’s healing to all the wounded, God’s peace beyond understanding to the families of the victims, and God’s justice to…
Google Theology: “Is God…?”
Google has become our culture’s guru. People come to it with questions both mundane and serious, and the most-asked questions get automatically suggested to people in the future. We at Redeeming Culture want to help, so we’re going to answer…
Why So Fantastical?
If you’ve been coming here for any length of time, it’s no surprise to you that there is a lot of geeky stuff on this site. Five articles we’ve posted so far are about science-fiction films, five more are about science…
An Inadvertent Cult: One Year Later
This coming weekend, my son turns 1 year old. Even writing that feels wrong, but it’s true. I checked the calendar, there’s a birthday party and everything. The past year has changed me into a different man; hopefully a better…
Flags over Facebook 2: The Blazing Center
We weren’t planning to talk about flags for two weeks in a row, but here we are: some theological musings on flying the Christian flag over the American flag, the gay pride flag over the Confederate flag, and what our truest hope is.
Flags over Facebook
Update 7/8/15: More flag news has surfaced since this article was written, so make sure you check out the latest article about Flags Over Facebook! • • • Over the past three weeks or so, it seems that two flags have…
Space Day, Race Day, and Memorial Day (Lightning Round)
Occasionally, a week is so busy that we feel a need to comment on more than one thing. Usually we release multiple articles, but this week we’re going to try something new: the Lightning Round. We’re going to take a…