Day: September 4, 2012

On Campus: Trust

On Campus: Trust

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On a Christian Campus I can’t believe how fast last year went by. It seems like I was just a freshman, and now I’m a junior. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I don’t know if I’m ready for the fast-approaching “real world” yet. This year has been so different from the last in so many ways. I’m starting to focus more on my major and my goals, and work on figuring out what I’m going to do with my life. With that focus has come a lot of serious decision-making. Many decisions are still up in...

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Media Review: The Water and the Blood by Sojourn

Media Review: The Water and the Blood by Sojourn

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Full disclosure: I am not a fan of much contemporary Christian music. I think I can count on one hand the contemporary Christian artists that I find worthwhile. I find it worthwhile when a band is both musically engaging and theologically stimulating. While in college, I worked in the music section of a Christian bookstore and found that much of what was sold was quite shallow both lyrically and theologically. The music was either boring or overproduced all in an effort to make me shut my eyes, throw up my hands, and sway. The music was directed at the...

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Book Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death

Book Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman If you’re only going to read one book this year, it should be Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. That being said, I hope you’ll read many more books than this. But if you have to make a choice based on which book will provide you with some means for understanding American culture and the dysfunctionality we all seem to recognize yet have no means for remedying, this book is the one. Postman’s premise is that a fundamental shift has occurred in communication culture...

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