Category: Culture
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The American Gospel and the meaning of Easter
Originally posted April 6, 2012 Statistically, we know that the vast majority of Americans believe in some form of a higher power. There are relatively few who are atheists. Since people do believe that there is something, and since it’s so easy to think of the majority of Americans as Christians, many simply attach themselves…
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God’s Not Dead: film attaches absurd stereotypes to non-Christians and philosophy professors
I had heard reviews that the movie “God’s Not Dead” was bad (like really bad). For the first 90 minutes, seeing some of the absurd elements of the plot, I was torn between blurting out “Oh come on!” or laughing because it was so bad. I think having a movie about doubt and Christians confronting…
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CEO forced to resign for donating $1,000 to the campaign against gay marriage in CA…SIX years ago
Less than two weeks after becoming the CEO of Mozilla, the software company who supports the Firefox web browser, Brendan Eich has stepped down after a backlash in regards to his opposition to same-sex marriage and financial support he gave to support Proposition 8 in California in 2008. So to recap: a guy donates a…
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How I (finally) Met Your Mother: blue french horns and yellow umbrellas
After waiting for nine seasons, in the last few minutes of the last episode, we finally saw Ted Mosby meet the mother in tonight’s serials finale of a legen… wait for it… dary show. I had grown disappointed with this season, and felt that they had decided to do one final season without enough ideas…
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How I Met Your Mother, why Ted was crying, and how the show will end
Spoiler alerts, if you’re not up to date on this show! How I Met Your Mother is my favorite show of all time. Throughout this ninth (and final) season, the episodes revolve around Barney and Robin’s wedding weekend, while flashing forward to Ted being married to the Mother. Although we still haven’t seen the two…
Josh Benner 