Leonard Nimoy Remembered
My family has always been a fan of genre fiction. My mother is a fantasy fanatic and my father schooled me in the ways of science fiction. The story of their first date (to see Star Wars in first run) is…
Letting The Air Out: A Theology of Super Bowl XLIX
Super Bowl Sunday! Break out the queso and beer, and let’s talk theology. Not what you had in mind for this afternoon? Ok, I’ll be quick. Just three loosely-connected thoughts to consider while you make the hot wings: DeflateGate Whether…
A Trip to Bethlehem
Welcome to Redeeming Culture! What follows is a dramatized account of the Magi’s trip to Bethlehem to meet Jesus after His birth. While the story is dramatized (the Bible gives no record of their number or names, for example), I’ve…
Redeeming Santa
“All it takes is moving one letter to change Santa into Satan!”
If you’ve never heard that little tidbit before…well, you haven’t been running in the same circles I have. Santa Claus has been under attack since he climbed down his first chimney.
Remindergiving
Ah, Thanksgiving! The one consumerism couldn’t destroy. Not for lack of trying, of course. Sure, companies try to get into the game every year, but despite all their best efforts, Thanksgiving has staunchly resisted the crass commercialism that took Christmas…
A Little Birdy Told Me…And Everybody Else
Yesterday, Twitter announced that it had made every tweet publicly available through a searchable index. After eight years, now a hundred billion tweets are ready for your viewing, 140 characters at a time. Everything from just setting up my twttr…
Halloween: Satan doesn’t get any day
Some debates you just can’t ignore. And with almost 62 million Google results for “the halloween debate”, we’re probably going to get some angry comments on this one. Pat Robertson calls it “the night of the devil.” A certain conservative group…
An Inadvertent Cult
On October 18, 2014, I was inducted into a cult against my will.
But this cult is the most socially acceptable cult in America today, and my induction into it happened during one of the happiest moments of my life.
The Googolplex and an Infinite God
There’s more to God in math than just praying before a test. In this mind-reeling post, we look at the holiness of God and how the fact that it’s hard to wrap our minds around sometimes is actually a good thing, and part of His plan to show us how much different than us He really is. Complete with a math lesson.
Lunar Eclipse and Apocalypse
If it’s not cloudy where you live this morning, step outside and look at the moon. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Isn’t that spectacular? This morning saw a total eclipse of the moon, and it was beautiful. In fact, if you…