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Figuring Out Fifty Shades
In the wake of this article – Desperately Disconnected, 50 Shades of Grey and the Longings of the Female Heart – in the current Salvo, it’s been my privilege and pleasure to elaborate on this whole...
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What a Girl Wants
A Word to the Guys With violent, abusive sex in the public eye right now thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey, there seems to be a lot of bewilderment among the male half of the population. What exactly do...
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Fear Not … but Count the Cost
I got an email the other day – one of those “raising awareness” types that get forwarded around a lot. It originated with the American Family Association (AFA), and it showed a map of the US with...
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True Blue
A Review of Blue: For Earth. For Humanity. For Freedom a Jeffrey D. King film Jeffrey (JD) King is on a mission to save the earth. As a millennial and lifelong Montanan, he wants to cultivate and...
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A Queer Entanglement
The Codependent Conjunction of “Gay Christians” and the Gay-Affirming Church When Harvard sophomore Matthew Vines came out to his parents over Christmas break, both of them affirmed their unconditional...
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My testimony
Originally posted on SixDay Science:I’ve had numerous requests over the years to write down my personal testimony and post it here. I was asked to give my testimony at a local church here in Austin as...
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Clearing up Cosmos
A Review of The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos: Fact and Fiction in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Landmark Science Series Douglas Ell became an atheist as a youth because of misinformation handed down in the name...
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Mining for God
— on TV this Saturday — Brandon McGuire grew up with a Midwestern American view of Christianity. After college, though, he lived for three months in Africa, where he saw a very different kind of...
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Why We Pray
Originally posted on Right Angles:“Band of Brothers,” a 2001 ten-part miniseries based on the book of the same name, follows a group of WWII paratroopers, E Company (“Easy Company”), through basic...
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A Quantum Christian
The Man for Whom Science Proved Religion Dennis Garvin grew up the second of three sons born into a Norman Rockwell setting in the Berkshire Mountains of upstate New York. After graduating...
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Unfashionable History: The Untold Story behind the Rise of Western Civilization
Unfashionable History A Review of How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity by Rodney Stark Americans are becoming increasingly ignorant of how the modern world came to be what...
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A Tale of Two Nazi Sons
A Review of What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy Philippe Sands, an international human rights lawyer, was doing research for a book on the Nuremberg trials, when he met Niklas Frank and Horst von...
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Let’s Make America Think Again
There’s a little picture meme floating around social media these days, especially since last Tuesday when Indiana voters effectively made Donald Trump the GOP presidential candidate. Although it...
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Men on strike: the social changes that caused men to opt out of marriage
Originally posted on WINTERY KNIGHT: SurveyMonkey election poll cross tabs for unmarried women only Nov 2016 I tweeted and shared Dr. Helen Smith’s book “Men on Strike” this week multiple times, and I...
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In a fragmented world where people are desperately in need of answers to hard questions about life and sexuality, Love Thy Body brings clarity, coherence, and integrity.
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Christianity differs profoundly from all other religions on homosexuality? But not in the way the dominant cultural voices say it does.
View ArticleGosnell movie set to open in October 2018 in 100 theaters
Originally posted on WINTERY KNIGHT: Empty benches where the mainstream media ought to be during the Gosnell trial At the time of the Gosnell story, I remember that there was a nationwide, wall-to-wall...
View ArticleHidden in Plain Sight: Evidence for God and the Call of the Cosmos
Atheists and Agnostics often will say they’re open to evidence for God, but they just don’t see any. When Chelsea on Netflix asked celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson if he believed in God, for...
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