April 9th, 2008 | by Catherine Amber | published in Culture, Featured
A book called “Unchristian” has been put out, in part by the Barna Research group. They are studying the responses of people to the notion of Christianity and Christians in general. In a nutshell, the news isn’t good. The “church” has lost credibility and strikes many as hypocritical and judgmental and specifically not a strong reflection of Jesus.
March 19th, 2008 | by Dave Cramer | published in Culture, Featured
Sen. Barack Obama gave this speech yesterday, March 18th, in Philadelphia. This was supposed to be a speech on race, meant to address comments recently made by his former pastor in Chicago, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and also to address the politics of race in this election. Race has been a dividing point in [...]
February 26th, 2008 | by Barbara Galbraith | published in Culture, Featured
For those of us (like me and Anthony) who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s (okay, Anthony gets the 80’s too…), we remember the artists who birthed the contemporary Christian music phenomenon - names like John Fischer, Phil Keaggy, and Larry Norman. Without these guys, and many others, the Christian music industry would [...]
February 2nd, 2008 | by Joshua Kagi | published in Culture, Featured
As all of us begin to gather together for our Super Bowl parties and gatherings, here’s an article that I’d like to pass along.
John Canzano is the senior sports columnist for the Oregonian, he’s down in Phoenix — the host city of the Super Bowl — and instead of deciding to focus on the massive [...]