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Re: Colour Blindness

So my friend and fellow blogger Harrison have entered an interesting conversation about whether discussions about race help or only amplify the problem of racism. Before reading on, catch yourself up on the dialogue by popping over to Harrison Exists! to read the exchange so far.

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Modern Cinema and the Christian Convention

Christians continually fail to interact intelligently with culture, and it kills me. It’s a theme I find myself exploring a lot. The first time I tackled the subject was in 2005’s essay about finding truth and beauty in “secular” music, but this one takes a new approach, and suggests that Christians are warming up, while [...]

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Rock, Records and Redemption

I was raised on a steady diet of Christian pop and church hymns, but my sense of whimsical nostalgia is constantly at war with an intense frustration with the maddening mediocrity of it all. As John Sullivan said in his amazing GQ article, Christian music is the only genre of music I can think of [...]

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The bizarre religion of Vancouver’s free dailies

Written by Kevan Gilbert, for no good reason. So who else just loooves their morning celebrity gossip and condensed stolen news briefs? Apparently somebody up there thinks we do. Ever since I began skytraining it into to downtown Van last week, I’ve noticed the regular assault of paperboys and hawkers shoving copies of Metro and [...]

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