Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Author Archive for Casey Shutt – Page 2

Burlap to Cashmere is back

Burlap to Cashmere from electrolite films on Vimeo.

On “cool” Christianity

Brett McCracken on “The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity.”

An ABC era: Anti-Christian bias in Academia?

Os Guinness has said that we live in an ABC era, that is, an Anything But Christian era.  It is a perceptive point. This ABC inclination may be especially alive in the hallowed halls of academia. Consider this story from Timothy Larsen: John had been a straight-A student until he enrolled in English writing. The

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How the divine drift might affect the Gospel

The latter half of the twentieth century was a tumultuous one.  It was period that cast an ominous shadow of doubt over the institutions that humans have traditionally anchored themselves in.  Thanks to the Watergate scandal, the protested Vietnam War, the Monica Lewinski debacle, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars there has been a growing suspicion

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Seinfeld: Despair with a smile

“Postmoderns are remarkably nonchalant about the meaninglessness which they experience in life. Reading the works of an earlier generation of writers, existentialist authors like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, one almost developed a sense of vertigo, the kind of apprehension that one gets when standing too near the edge of a terrifying precipice, so bleak,

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On the divine drift

The world we inhabit affects us in many ways. It impacts the way we think about everything, including religion. It has been suggested that the sacred is migrating. Under contemporary conditions, individuals have grown leery of externalities. Our world seems fragmented, tumultuous, and inhospitable. Despite all our comforts and conveniences, our souls groan. Peter Berger

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