December 2011
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The Cost of Community
Earlier this fall, my friend Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s new book The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom. I was sent a copy to review by Likewise, and it has been my favorite book I’ve reviewed this year.
The Cost of Community in all truth has made me a little jealous. It’s the sort of book that I’d like to write - one that explores scripture but does...
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Skrillex Christmas Lightshow
Hard for me to not be stoked about a combination of Christmas lights and dubstep. Merry Christmas Eve Eve.
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Jesus vs. Ayn Rand: Christmas Smackdown Edition
Will Willimon weighs in on how celebrating Christmas flies in the face of the values of Ayn Rand:
I’m amazed that these politicians promote Rand’s philosophy without concern for her atheism. But more amazing is the grand celebration we Christians are about to witness. Christmas, the nativity of Jesus Christ, is an eloquent rebuke to Rand and her contemporary devotees, because Christmas is God’s...
giving gifts
It’s been encouraging to me that over the past few years it’s become much more popular to decry consumerism during the Christmas season. Great projects like the Advent Conspiracy have popped up, encouraging people to step off the carousel of feeling like they need to go into debt in spending to illustrate their love to each other during the Christmas season.
I think it’s a...
