Culture

Sex, Soul, and Society…

A couple months ago I was driving some young girls in grade seven at our church to an event. I started ranting on about how great it would be to be their age again, when one of them blurted out ‘when we’re with boys all they want to do is look at porn’… I was [...]

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Lesser desires / a PhD in Erwin

Our economy is driven by keeping the average person discontent. Marketers and advertisers are tasked with creating in us a dissastifaction for what we have, or at the very least, a nagging desire for what we do not need. There are so many things that I want. I have longings that I could have sworn [...]

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God? Marriage? What?…

A friend of mine asked me last night out of the leftfield, ‘why does the Bible refer to God as a male?” I was a bit startled at first, and then I couldn’t get over the fact that I didn’t have a thought out answer for such a simple question. I decided to just open [...]

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Being Fully Present…

What a fantastic time in Ottawa. I miss living in that simple city. This long weekend consisted of friends, family, BBQ’s, walks along the river, and relaxing good times – the usual in the town of Ottawa. A good friend once told me that maybe I could impact lives when I was away on campus, [...]

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The New Public Square

I’ve been taking Gospel, Church and Culture this summer at Tyndale. Here are some excerpts from an interesting article I recently finished – The not-so-naked new public square by Rodney Clapp: “Shopping malls have quite consciously been built and presented as public squares, commons, or downtowns. Mall architecture incorporates-albeit in an artificial, thermostatically regulated fashion-many [...]

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