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Items tagged truth

• Gentle radicalism

  Despite several flaws in reasoning, Roaring Lambs provides a compelling argument for Christians to transform culture.

• Demian's relevance

  A student analyzes Hermann Hesse's novel for affronts to Christianity and then explains why such literature should be studied in Christian schools.

• Can we test for that?

  A review of Howard Gardner's The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves.

• Who's afraid of the big, bad world?

  What is or is not appropriate for Christians to watch, observe, listen to and participate in? Some answers lie in a close exploration of Philippians 4:8.

• A waste of time?

  I thought liberal arts classes would be boring, until I started finding God in every one of them.

• Late night thoughts on the sovereignty of God

  Or, if the Reformers hadn't been resurrected, would they be spinning in their graves?

• Discovering faith and art

  An interview with painter Ben Keys.

• Overcome with Passion

  Why evangelicals need to get smart about movies.

• A Beloved Enemy

  To overcome pain and fear, we must first desire to let go of our suffering.

• The beauty of holiness, the holiness of beauty

  Through experiencing the holiness of beauty, and through it, experiencing God, we are changed for the better.

• I Chronicles 14, and What Is God Asking Me To Do?

  How can a called writer patiently fulfill his monumental task?

• Seeking God in 2004

  On the state of Christianity in North America as we approach a significant election.

• Seeking truth

  Who are the gatekeepers of God?s truth?

• The gift of disillusionment

  How and why college sophomores are learning to embrace apocalypse.

• Deep horror, deep hope

  Part two in a series of two articles on finding our way through modern horror film.

• Mart?n Buscaglia

  From a back room concert to the purpose of the artist.

• The India journals

  Seeking questions and answers in another culture leads back home.

• Visiting Oz

  A fresh look at an old classic reveals reasons to revel and to critique.

• Regarding judgment

  Are we necessarily caught between conviction and relativism?

• Blaspheming in the chapel

  Calvin College?s choice to host a concert by Wilco?s Jeff Tweedy sparks interesting debate on fan sites.

• Masked identity

  On the tendency of hypocrisy to disguise a person's true identity.

• The Society of Heretics and Believers

  Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Galileo?what do heretics past and present contribute to the community of faith?

• Of orthodoxy and orthopraxy

  A reflection on Simone Weil, a scholar and activist who defied categories in early twentieth century Europe.

• My addiction

  The journey of an addictive personality leads to…the radio?

• A post-hospital confession

  The ‘short answer’ after a hospital stay reveals the brokenness we miss every day.

• Studying a storyteller to share the Good News

  A review of the work of storyteller Michael Perry.

• Lies and the impeccable word

  What the parable of the rich man and Lazarus can teach us about discerning lies.

• Drowning in culture

  A review of Deepa Mehta’s Water.

• Thy will be done

  Explores the spiritual discipline of releasing long-term personal expectations in exchange for more microscopic endeavors toward becoming like Christ.

• Haunted by hope

  A reflection on expectations at the initiation of another Advent.