Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’

Untying the “Not”

For two of my college years, I found myself working at an outlet store. It was one of those big-box brands, selling designer clothes, shoes, accessories, everything you could want from a high-end store at half the price and none of the dignity. I worked in the shoe department, where I was proud...

October 11th, 2012 | Blog, Essays, Social Justice | Read More

Being In The Right

One of my father’s favourite quotes is: “There’s nothing more dangerous than someone in the right.” It’s a quote that comes from the context of living in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, where many people on both sides of the community believed they were firmly ‘in the right’. When...

August 29th, 2012 | Featured | Read More

The Gospel Shell Game

Have you ever known anyone imprisoned by a cell of their own making? Perhaps we all do it to some degree, but some do it to the extent that their lives are an ever-shrinking, imploding world of self-absorption. Indignation can be addictive, and some seem to have been seduced by it entirely. I know...

April 22nd, 2012 | Becoming the Great Us, Meditations, Part of the Solution | Read More

A Reason to be Angry

In my youth, I was scared out of listening to non-Christian music. It was the “devil’s music” and it had “no redeeming value.” Names like Judas Priest and Megadeth proved the argument in my childish brain. After all, they did use the Lord’s name in vain and a whole...

April 7th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Music | 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

Hypocrisy At Its Finest

One reason The Daily Show with Jon Stewart works is, they seem to be the only television show where old clips are shown with new. I have no idea why the broader media doesn’t do this more often, because it so aptly points out the lies and hypocrisy that go on in politics. Plus, why write jokes...

September 5th, 2008 | Blog | Read More