Have you noticed? There’s an intake of fresh oxygen being sucked into the collective lungs of Christians who love music. It’s finally time, it seems, for genuine Christian engagement with pop music – any pop music, made by anybody, sold anywhere. Christians are abandoning the “Christian-Bookstore-sez-it’s-OK-to-buy-this” model and seeking out music that is worth listening…

When “Knocked Up” took America by storm, many people (Idol Chatterers among them) wondered, in a movie about a pregnancy which resulted from a one-night stand outside of marriage, where was the abortion discussion? Ellen, who blogged this originally, found a partial answer from Rogen in The Onion (though wish it was in a personal…

“Halo 3” debuted with as much buzz and fanfare as its predecessors, maybe more, but there’s no surprise there. Rated “M” for “Mature, it’s the top selling video game of all time. But perhaps what might stun readers is that this killing-game is apparently being used to save young men across America with Jesus–or at…

There are some things we just expect from certain musicians. We know Radiohead will give us postmodern technological alienation. We know Kanye West will give us pious braggadocio. And after five LP and EP releases, we’ve come to know that Sam Beam, the impressively-bearded gentleman behind the Americana/folk outfit Iron and Wine, will give us…

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