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TV Show Review: Resurrection

Mar 17 2014

From the moment the first commercial echoed the a capella words “I’m coming home, coming home, tell the world I’m coming home” I wanted to know how ABC’s new show Resurrection would mirror culture’s desire to have life after death.

After all, this is the same station that has heaped a pile of shows I refuse to watch: Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, Nashville, Revenge, Scandal, Betrayal, Desperate Housewives, Trophy Wife, The Bachelor / Bachelorette, and Dancing with the Stars. (I will make four exceptions: Once Upon a Time and Marvel’s Agents of Shield (though I have not watched them), Wipe Out and our house’s favorite, Shark Tank.

ABC does not reflect my family or my family’s values. With our little spare time, we have become increasingly choosy about the television shows that we do watch. But the echoes of “coming home” triggered a deep desire to hunt for the moral truths in Resurrection.

Christ in our Coffee Shops

Feb 26 2014

Today’s blog was guest written by Jewel Evans. To read the Christ in Culture blog from the beginning, click here.

The alarm goes off at 5 am; Monday morning has arrived, like clockwork. It’s time to get up and get the shop open. I keep the lights low, allowing myself a few quiet moments before the NOW BREWING sign flashes brightly in the early morning light. In a little while, my coworker, Alicia, will show up and we will begin our day, serving cups of coffee and tea to the downtown crowd as they make their way into work.

There are moments in the day, especially in the early hours, that provide her and I ample opportunity to talk and catch up about our weekend happenings. My coworker is a nursing student, lives in the historic part of town, and is generally a sweet and enjoyable young woman. As we sip coffee together, our routine of months and months of Monday mornings spent together, she asks me this question: “Do you go to church every Sunday?” It caught me off guard. It took me a minute to respond, recalling just what I told her a moment ago.

Christ in our Writing

Feb 17 2014

Today’s Blog is Guest-written by Kate C. Weise. To read this month’s series from the beginning, click here.

When I tell people I write, I get one response:

*crickets chirping*

Which I think is very strange. After all, we live in a world saturated with story. Turn on the TV. Story, story, story (yes, even commercial breaks use Aristotle’s 3-part story structure). Humans love stories. We all tell them. We all experience them. And we all need them.

Ask yourself: what would my life be without story?

I’ll tell you: Nothing.

You’re a character in one of the greatest stories ever told in a crazy imaginative world. And God is telling this story for the heck of it.

Christ in the App Store

Feb 10 2014

To read this series, Christ & Culture, from the beginning, click here.

Flappy Bird, originally released in May, became the top free iPhone app mid-January. However, in an unforeseen turn of events, its creator, Don Nguyen, took the app off the store yesterday. According to CNN, the game had an average four-star rating from more than 543,000 reviews in the Apple App Store and 228,000 on Android.

For those of you who didn’t get to experience the maddening addiction of Flappy Bird, the object is to tap the screen to bounce an odd-looking yellow bird through the air without hitting the pipes or the ground. Sound simple? It should, with all logic, be. But Flappy Bird defied logic and became the most frustratingly obsessive game on the app store.

On the iPhone, my high score was 1 but on the iPad, I reached a whopping 5. Most of the addiction comes from that part of your brain where you know – you just know – that you can do better. So you play just one more game … just one more game … just one more game …

Christ in our Daycares

Feb 05 2014

photo from freepixels.com

Today’s blog was guest written by Holly Robinson. To read the series from the beginning, click here.

The children and families that we get to interact with in the inner-city community are families who have not been taught how to have discipline and responsibility for their lives. When we take these kids in we are teaching them much more than just educational values like their alphabet and numbers. We are teaching the kids to become responsible individuals while also dealing with day to day issues.

Our goal is to get the kids to start thinking more about their actions and learn how to handle their own problems. We emphasize having respect for all people and things, responsibility for themselves, and building relationships out of love. We are a private Christian organization so we have the freedom to share our faith with the students. We get to teach the kids about God and His love for us. As we build relationships with them, we want them to be able to see Jesus in us while pointing them towards a relationship with Him.

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