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Alice Cooper, the father of shock rock, performs dark songs that reveal the light of truth
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This spring a movie will be released that will contain an excessive amount of graphic violence, an extended torture sequence, and an abundance of blasphemous charges directed against the living God. Due to these excesses, the film has earned an R-rating. Strangely enough, most evangelical Christians will applaud the movie, and many will attempt to use it as an evangelistic tool to bring people to Christ. Is this consistent with their convictions?
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Professor James Kakalios teaches basic physics through the use of Silver Age comic book heroes and villains. Who knew that Newton's laws of motion, the three laws of thermodynamics, magnetism, electricity, and quantum mechanics could be so fun and interesting? Now I know why I love comics so much!
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When the market
defines what is good, truth usually suffers -- truth has never
"sold" too well with consumers!
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I do think that I can learn something
from everyone and from every experience
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No matter how hard we try, these #?*&%@! Scissorhands keep getting in the way!
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Why the Sci Fi Channel’s new original series,
Who Wants to be a Superhero? is one of the most inspiring television shows of all time! Really!
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Bono is a great musician, a savvy political activist, and a heartfelt
Christian. His ability to seamlessly weave together these three disparate threads - rock, politics, and religion - is fascinating, endearing, and challenging. Bono is the real deal: a messy saint in a messy world using a popular medium to make his voice heard.
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Horror takes evil seriously. Because of this, it is a fertile field for creative and uplifting - even, inspirational - writing.
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The rock opera leaves us asking the right questions, even though it doesn't hand us all the answers on a silver platter.
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Although she abandoned her faith as an adult and declared herself an atheist, novelist Anne Rice's defenses were broken down as she researched history for her novels, laying the ground for her return to faith. She realized that she didn't need to have all the answers to come to God - she simply needed to trust that God had the answers.
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Chuck Klosterman's new book recounts his "cross-country death trip" in 2003 to visit the locations of famous rock-star deaths. "Instead of going to the places where everything happened, I would go to the places where everything stopped." Along the way, Chuck reflects on life, death, and love through the lens of pop culture.
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Every group has a message – a gospel, or good news – that they hope to transmit. This is certainly true for the “most popular, repeatedly covered, influential, and enduring rock group of all time:” the Beatles. The goal of this essay is to piece together from the music, lyrics, and lives of the Fab Four the Gospel according to the Beatles.
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Many fans of the most popular sitcom of our time feel cheated because the last laugh has been on them
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Powerful feelings are aroused by beauty - feelings of pleasure, delight, wonder, and longing. These feelings possess a great capacity to transform us. We must recover the beauty of holiness or our religion will become nothing more than dry and dusty truth encrusted with overly-demanding morals.
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By the age of 22, George Harrison had everything the world could offer. And yet, it left him empty. Thus began his search for something more. It is possible to gain the world and lose our soul. Unlike most of us, George truly possessed all the world had to offer – but it was not enough. He recognized that life is ultimately empty apart from God.
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Through the use of shared cultural myths - the legend of Santa Claus with his elves and flying reindeer at the North Pole preparing to embark on his yearly gift-giving trek around the world - The Polar Express is a parable about the journey of faith. It is a journey from innocence lost to innocence regained, from skepticism to wide-eyed wonder, from doubt to faith.
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God's goodness is greater than the
world's evil, and God's truth is greater than the world's
deceptions. We have no reason to fear and every reason
to courageously plunder our culture
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Jesus is a compelling, mysterious, and provocative figure. It makes sense that Dan Brown would feature Jesus in a novel about puzzles, mysteries, and profound secrets. We should not fault him for this. In fact, we should take a step back and ask ourselves if our presentations of Jesus are equally provocative - or simply, dull.
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As physical beings, we encounter the divine through physical reality. Though the greatest mystics are able to encounter the transcendent in all of reality, few of us are great mystics. Therefore, we need physical aids to remind us of the inherent sanctity of life and the pervasive presence of God. The question: What exactly constitutes sacred space?
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As aliens and strangers in this world, and possessors of
the greatest narrative ever revealed, Christians can learn
a practical lesson from the Trekkies.
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True Reality TV has finally arrived, with around-the-clock coverage, so you need not miss out on any of the blood-soaked, violence-laden, "shock and awe" excitement!
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Though the internet gives the sense of connecting us to others, this is nothing but an illusion. We remain alone before a screen with our own desires at center stage. The vast majority of self-expression is little more than self-indulgence and self-promotion. Imagination and creativity are rare. The self-expression may be amusing, but rarely moving.
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