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…
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…
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…
The Quantum Physics of The Berenstain Bears
It’s a terrible, horrible plot. The machinations of unfathomable secret societies with impossible technology have struck at our very past, changing reality all around us, warping the world until their dark plan finally came to fruition…they’ve finally and irrevocably changed…
Aliens vs. God
NASA is building a pretty strong case for the existence of aliens, but you could be forgiven for missing the news. Amid the excitement of New Horizons‘ flyby of dwarf-planet Pluto and the incredible photos it returned, it would be easy not to…
Pluto: Invisible made Visible
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, and it was classified the 9th planet from the sun. Until 1994, we didn’t even know exactly how big it was. And the highest-resolution image we had of the planet was this, taken…