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Guest Post: Marketing Divorce or Losing Your Job? Four Things I Learned When Faced With an Ethical Dilemma
Read more: Guest Post: Marketing Divorce or Losing Your Job? Four Things I Learned When Faced With an Ethical DilemmaDisclaimer: I haven’t lost my job, and the company I work for isn’t evil in any way shape or form… In my role I get the chance to work with many unique organizations and dynamic leaders. It’s been an opportunity that has taken me through many industries from insurance, retail, manufacturing, and many more. It’s…
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Libertarianism From A Christian Perspective: Guest Post
Read more: Libertarianism From A Christian Perspective: Guest Post“Who are you to tell me what to do?” “Why can’t I do something if it doesn’t hurt anybody else?” “Big government is a big failure; keep its nose out of my business!” Such sentiments echo at Libertarian rallies across the world. Libertarians value autonomy and freedom, and they are not afraid to openly express…
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Prayer as Ethics
Read more: Prayer as Ethics“…you become better and better by looking for so great a good which is both sought in order to be found and found in order to be sought…” -St. Augustine “Ethics” means more than understanding how one should act in a certain situation in order to be free from blame. This type of ethics is…
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Harry Potter & Moral Issues: Guest Post
Read more: Harry Potter & Moral Issues: Guest PostIt is hugely disappointing to me that I still have to defend my love for the Harry Potter series to other Christians. In good Two Cities fashion of “reconciling Evangelicals with the ‘Bad Guys,’” I will give two reasons why the Harry Potter series is not a threat to the Christian worldview and is actually…
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…So I’m Kind of a Pacifist
Read more: …So I’m Kind of a PacifistI say kind of because I’m very inconsistent. On the one hand I enjoy movies about famous wars or war heroes (Gladiator, The Patriot, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan), I like some violent video games (Halo, Call of Duty), and I have complete respect for those who are willing to support their country and subject…
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A Short Theology of Colossians
Read more: A Short Theology of ColossiansThe message of the gospel points us to a new possibility for life—nay, a new actuality of life. The divine fullness has entered into time, and history is bursting at the seams. As the world hurtled onward towards the abyss, God came bodily in Jesus Christ and embraced death and reprobation—“making peace by the blood…
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Weekly Roundup
Read more: Weekly RoundupSome links worth checking out: (By the way, if you’ve read (or written) a particularly fascinating or infuriating post during any given week, don’t hesitate to wing it over to us. We may include it here. Email: mattwilcoxen at gmail dot com) Ben Witherington III interviews N.T. Wright on Wright’s forthcoming translation of the New…
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Memphis Church Hosts Ramadan
Read more: Memphis Church Hosts RamadanIn an interesting story made more intriguing by its setting, last year a church in the Bible belt joyfully agreed to host Ramadan. The Memphis Islamic Center was closed for renovations, sending the leaders of the mosque looking for an alternate venue with relatively little notice. Having a hard time finding a place that could…