Category Archives: Maturity

The Missing Purpose of Church

June 5th, 2013

The lament we hear from many sectors in American Christendom is over the increasing number of people who shun church. While the numbers seem to bolster this observation, no one can agree as to why the exodus is happening. Some say those who have gone missing have left the Faith entirely. Others point to a [...]

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Bizarro Church, and What We Can Do to Save American Christianity

May 29th, 2013

I grew up in an age of comic book superheroes. Spider-Man debuted just months before I was born, and as a child, I endlessly watched the old George Reeves Superman TV show. About four years before my own debut, at a point that can only be considered a creative nadir, the writers of the Superman [...]

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The Church, Tech, Ethics, Jaron Lanier, and the Destruction of the Middle Class

May 20th, 2013

After reading my recent post “‘Free’ and the Destruction of Worth,” reader Brian Auten sent notice of a compelling Salon interview with tech futurist Jaron Lanier—“The Internet Destroyed the Middle Class”—in which the polymath suggests he and other prognosticators underestimated the negative impact the Internet would have on our lives. As a musician, Lanier thought [...]

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