Two new movies hitting theatres soon — Wolf Creek and Hostel — contain graphic displays of violence, torture, serial murder, and dismemberment. Hostel touts the factoid that paramedics were required at the preview due to the extreme reactions of some of those in attendance.
I find that I must shake my head in dismay and disbelief. What exactly is the [...]
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The Appeal of Gore
What Is a Man?
Scattered Words: Men, , homosexuality and the exgay movement
Ben has a written an excellent starting point on determining just what it means to be a man. Before I comment further, however, I highly recommend taking a moment to give his site a read. He is extremely eloquent at describing his struggle and journey to become ex-gay [...]
Caution, Not Thrown to the Wind
We live in a world that is driven primarily by the strength of its libido. Sexual stimuli surround us everywhere we look. Even the most mundane of daily activities, such as eating, are paired up
with images of eroticism, sex, and lust. Common knowledge says that sex sells, and it certainly must because nearly every product [...]
The Disservice of Contemporary Christianity in America
The discussion on homosexuality here resulted in a few thoughts on the counterproductivity of the contemporary Christian approach to evangelism.
I do believe that Christians in our society today have done a great disservice to the homosexual community in their very angry, judgmental approach, something that Wilkins apologized for on behalf of those individuals in his speech. [...]
What’s black and white and gray all over?
Truth. Well, sort of. Honestly, I think that all truth is actually very much black and white, and if it seems to be more of a gray issue, it is simply a demonstration of the limitations of human
knowledge and understanding. Some truths are really very basic, very cut-and-dried, things like, “Gravity is what holds me [...]
Not the Day To Hold Strong Beliefs
I was scanning through radio stations this afternoon and caught a moment of Rush Limbaugh’s daily broadcast. At that particular moment, he was describing a phenomenon in the political world that we are seeing all to often in our society in general. It seems that anyone who holds strong, firm beliefs in, well, just about [...]
Is It Wrong to Be Right?
“Everyone who is consumed with being right and a little too uptight about being exact and so on shoudl take heed of my little girl’s quote: ”’R’ is for ‘Bunny’” was her response when we were doing flashcards the other night. The letter R was on one side and a picture of a rabbit on
the other.”
In [...]