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Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

The Devil’s Advocate: Perfection Waits for Another World

Political obedience in our broken societies is not painted in black and white.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Pilgrimage and Paradigm Shifts

In “Great Tradition” Christianity we find friends in the faith who we thought were opponents.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

The (Not So Hidden) Persuaders

As I creatively market a brand through storytelling, I believe that truth wins and beauty uplifts the human spirit.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

An Undersung Art

We need wordsmiths willing to speak with care and courage into a public forum where language is so often hijacked, held hostage, abused.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Protest and Persuasion: Productive or Pointless?

A public protest can be an effective means of enacting positive change, but only if it is done right.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian’s Privilege

Persuasion should be based in discovering the reality of real people’s lives.

Feb 1, 2013 Essay

Prizes and Consumables: The Super Bowl as a Theology of Women

The way we consume iconic national events like the Super Bowl better depicts what we really believe about women than does anything else. For in the invisibility of normality, there we find our idolatry.

Dec 10, 2012 Essay

On the Role of Art Museums

Among people working in the art museum field, there is a pervasive and lingering philosophical wrestling match between what was, what could be, and what ought to be.

Dec 5, 2012 Essay The story

Redemption

(Originally published March 2010:) The Word became flesh, not to save our souls from this fallen world, but in order to restore us as lovers of this world.

Nov 1, 2012 Essay The Word of God and the City of Man

Reading the Bible . . . and Longing to Know

The Bible is a doorway to a person, an invitation waiting to be sent. When we read it obediently and expectantly, like an actor, we find gracious and surprising self-disclosure.

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The Devil’s Advocate: Perfection Waits for Another World

Pilgrimage and Paradigm Shifts

The (Not So Hidden) Persuaders

An Undersung Art

Protest and Persuasion: Productive or Pointless?

Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian’s Privilege

Prizes and Consumables: The Super Bowl as a Theology of Women

On the Role of Art Museums

Redemption

Reading the Bible . . . and Longing to Know

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