Category: Culture
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Should I Have Babies? A Single Person’s Hopes and Fears
Read more: Should I Have Babies? A Single Person’s Hopes and FearsLast Friday Andrew posted about whether or not he and his wife should have children. As I thought about the issues raised – Is it best to wait? When’s the right time? – I tried to think about the issues from the only perspective I can: singleness. Allow me to be candid for a moment. I always…
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Should I Have a Baby
Read more: Should I Have a BabyOne of the clients that I work with on a regular basis is autistic. This is a curse and a blessing. The curse is that for him, life is difficult. He can’t relate to other people in a typical fashion and this fact makes it hard to develop a relationship with him. The blessing is…
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Video: Best Bible Movies Ever! (Guest Post)
Read more: Video: Best Bible Movies Ever! (Guest Post)Near the top of my New Earth wish list is that God will set up a 3D IMAX theater where we can watch the real-life Bible movie. Wouldn’t it be amazing to see Moses part the actual Red Sea instead of Charlton Heston part a tray of jello? I want to see Adam formed from…
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Winning!(?): Christians and the Lottery
Read more: Winning!(?): Christians and the LotteryAn old proverb states that in every bet there is a fool and a thief. With the backdrop of the Mega Millions lottery jackpot rising towards a record setting $640 million last week, the subject of gambling became a popular topic among many Christians. John Piper wrote a blog post about why you shouldn’t gamble, Albert…
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Exit Through The Spiritual Gift Shop
Read more: Exit Through The Spiritual Gift ShopOn bridges, in dark alleys, under freeway overpasses, in the middle of busy streets, and anywhere else there is room, a group of visionaries are making their art. They’re doing it on the city itself. From a familiar British phone booth murdered and left bleeding to the obscure yet iconic face of André René Roussimoff…
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An Overview of Our Blogroll (Part 3)
Read more: An Overview of Our Blogroll (Part 3)Today’s post wraps up a three-part look at the websites and blogs you’ll find on our blogroll. You can find part’s one and two here and here, respectively. We hope you’ll give some of them a look (as long as they don’t crowd us out of your daily blog rotation)… Veritas (veritas.org)–Veritas is an organization…
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“Love or Lust?” Identifying the Role of Physical Attraction in Healthy Relationships
Read more: “Love or Lust?” Identifying the Role of Physical Attraction in Healthy RelationshipsSo, sexual attraction is a powerful force. If you are like me, you grew up in the church being told this, and that as a result, sexual lust was to be avoided like the plague and feared as dangerous as an inescapable labyrinth. And there are many who can testify to the powerful vice-grip that…
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Know Your Blogroll (Pt. 2)
Read more: Know Your Blogroll (Pt. 2)Welcome to part 2 of a look at the blogs that make up our blogroll at the bottom of this site. You can check out part 1 here. (The Two Cities has not received any financial considerations from the authors of these blogs, though donations are always accepted). The objective here is simply to point…
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Celebrating the Patron Saint of Corned Beef and Cabbage
Read more: Celebrating the Patron Saint of Corned Beef and CabbageThe image to the left is an artist’s rendering of what Saint Patrick may have looked like. At least that’s what it would seem many people today think. Like any good capitalist society, America has reduced St. Patrick’s Day to it’s most commercially friendly form. Not unlike Christmas, the actual meaning of the holiday is…
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Kony 2012
Read more: Kony 2012There is a town in Northern Uganda named Gulu. To get there from Kampala—Uganda’s capital—our bus traveled about 200 km, cutting through lush tropical jungles and eventually emerging into the dryer terrain surrounding Gulu. After nearly two weeks in Kampala, I thought I knew a lot about Uganda (a very arrogant assumption to begin with),…