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January 20th, 2013 | Featured, Inside the Box | Read More

Waiting in Line for the End of the World: A Product Preview/Revelation

Hidden from view behind a Carl’s Jr. billboard and masked from the senses of search dogs by Axe body spray, an evil public relations team is huddled around a conference table chugging 5-hour energy drinks and plotting world domination. Much like any attempt to rule the world, their plan is...

May 8th, 2012 | Essays, Humor | Read More

10 Reasons Why Baseball Needs Tim Tebow

Baseball’s spring training season is a spring cleaning of sorts. Players are knocking rust off and brushing up on fundamentals, managers are polishing lineups and fans are soaking up sunshine. However, baseball might want to consider cleaning out its vacuum hose because players are still having trouble...

April 4th, 2012 | Essays, Humor, Sports | Read More

CEO of The Living Room

There are three things a Christian woman in her twenties can be guaranteed to experience: weddings, bridal showers, and baby showers. It doesn’t matter if you’re single, married, a rich corporate lawyer, or a poor freelance writer – your friends are going to get married and reproduce,...

July 19th, 2011 | Culture, Essays, Featured, Features | Read More

LMAO Jesus Style

Do you ever feel like as Christians we take ourselves too seriously? I am a huge fan of this season’s Last Comic Standing. Granted some of the material is offensive or outright blasphemous at times, but there is something which grabs me about the comedic vision of religion. There is much to learn...

October 11th, 2010 | Featured, Humor | Read More

An Open Letter to Anne Rice…From Summer Camp!

Here at Burnside, we’ve had no shortage of opinions about Anne Rice’s recent rejection of Christianity. Is three articles enough? we asked. Probably not, we decided. So here’s Olivia, age 7 and 1/2, and her open letter to Anne Rice. Dear Anne, What’s up? Nothin’...

August 5th, 2010 | Blog, Featured, Humor | Read More

Bigger and Blackerer: David Cross

Successful comedians are always smarter than their audiences. They make the people in the crowd think that they’re clever for getting the jokes. Comedians purposefully do this. Well, okay, Dane Cook is up for debate. But David Cross is one smart comedian. He knows exactly what will make his niche audience...

May 25th, 2010 | Featured, Humor | Read More

The Christian Speakeasy

Jordan Green and I had an idea to put together an album of short conversations between us. We may receive some angry comments. We call it The Christian Speakeasy. You can listen to the entire piece (40 minutes) in the player below, Podcast: Download or download it from itunes HERE. So spread...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Humor | Read More

The Top 10 Years of the Decade

#10: 2001 Our country took a hit this year. The hit was so bad, it was enough to define the rest of the decade as the ‘Post-9/11 Era.’ P.O.D. also released their album Satellite on September 11th. Their song ‘Alive’ became America’s anthem for the rest of the year. It should...

December 26th, 2009 | Features, Humor | Read More

Writing a Tragedy

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Maybe I’m too old to have heroes… Maybe, but in my defense I first read about Tiger Woods in a March, 1991 issue of Sports Illustrated. He was 15. I was 13. For the next 19 years I watched in awe as he...

December 18th, 2009 | Featured, Humor, Sports | Read More

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