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Alex, my son, turned 16 yesterday. YIKES! Now, he has arranged it so that he can graduate a year early - so next year is his last year in high school. He wants to go into film so he'll start at CU getting a good foundat…
- 10/29/2004 11:41:11 AM
- 17 comments
So you are really bored? I am surprised that so many of you assumed that boredom meant not having something (or enough) to do. Interesting that many societies have so much less than we do (e.g., technology, tv channels, …
- 10/27/2004 1:57:41 PM
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Hi Everyone: I spent some time looking through Xanga sites. I know that Xanga is not a cross section of culture but one theme came out very strong: ennui. Most used the word "bored." I have never been confronted with so…
- 10/25/2004 10:24:42 PM
- 37 comments
All of you are right on in our discussion about art. Obviously, not everyone agrees but there is a tension that underlies our attempts to get at art as a part of God's world. I agree that there is no "Christian" art. Wha…
- 10/22/2004 9:17:58 AM
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Here's a hot topic. Art. In all its forms. Music, movies, performance, created, written. I have taught classes on approaching art from a Christian perspective and write regularly about movies and music. But I still ca…
- 10/20/2004 3:10:02 PM
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Hi again Everyone: It's a rainy Ohio morning and I just returned from chapel. My daughter made it back safe from Russia last night and I made it safely from PA. I was driving along on Thursday near the PA border when m…
- 10/18/2004 11:52:59 AM
- 12 comments
Fall Break is here! Although I don't get a break, I'm glad that those of you who are CU students have the opportunity for a little R&R. I imagine some of you "working people" long for the days when a break was someth…
- 10/13/2004 3:42:37 PM
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Good Evening, Everyone! Lynne and I had a great time in New Mexico. The mountains were incredible. The weather was beautiful. Santa Fe prides itslef on being one of the most liberal cities in the West. It doesn't both…
- 10/11/2004 9:37:31 PM
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Hi Everyone: I am headed to Santa Fe, New Mexico tomorrow. I will be speaking to a group of supporters of Family Matters (Tim Kimmel's ministry) on issues related to postmodernism and youth culture. I have been to San…
- 10/6/2004 3:25:27 PM
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Hi Everyone: You inspire me! Your discussions of this particular issue are right on and represent a pretty broad area of historical and current debate among Christians. Remember: the only inspired and inerrant Scripture…
- 10/3/2004 2:33:27 PM
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Hi Everyone! Much of the discussion about translations/paraphrases sounds like the same things that were said back in the 70's. These were the same arguments that people had back in the 16th-17th century (although some …
- 10/2/2004 5:14:38 PM
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Keep your thoughts going on the Revolve bible-zine. Thanks for your spirit and your thoughtful comments. I, like many of you, cringe a bit when something new comes along that does more than dip its toe in the cultural …
- 10/1/2004 7:07:05 AM
- 23 comments