Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

Being There

Two years ago I was sitting on a beach with Girlfriend. The sun had set and it was getting cold. We began to hear car horns honking and people yelling in the distance. I was worried at first, but then I remembered that the Giants were playing in the World Series that night. And I remembered that we were...

February 25th, 2013 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Art to See Across the Country This New Year

With a new year comes fresh installations of art across the country and resolutions to figure more cultural experiences into our daily lives. Here’s a roundup of exhibits, some that opened last year and are still on view and others that will open in the upcoming winter months, that will not only inspire...

January 8th, 2013 | Visual Arts | Read More

Our Interview with Jim Wallis on Immigration Reform

In our most recent special post-election edition of the HomeBrewed Christianity CultureCast, we sat down with Jim Wallis, head of Sojourners, political activist and change-agent for the common good among the political elite in Washington DC. You can check out the entire episode by CLICKING HERE, but...

November 9th, 2012 | Blog | Read More

Cross Talk: The Presidential Townhall Debate

In this column, we’ll discuss important current event topics with two Burnside writers who disagree on the issues. One leans left, the other right. Their faith is what helps them to meet in the middle. Usually. Emily: I’m looking forward to this! So James, I’m assuming by now you’ve caught...

October 25th, 2012 | Columns, Cross Talk, Culture, Democracy, Featured | Read More

The Virtue of Open-Mindedness

If we take her words at face value, a demon was tormenting her daughter. Any mother would become desperate. Seeing the miracle worker from the south, whose reputation had spread like wildfire, she ran towards him, flailing her arms and shouting for mercy. The miracle worker desired solitude. He tried...

May 9th, 2012 | Democracy, Essays | Read More

Say Anything

Every woman who has experienced pregnancy knows that the condition automatically makes her an inadvertent public figure, allowing anyone to say anything to or about her at any time. Here are some real life comments made to pregnant women I have known (including myself): -Wow, you are really huge! -Are...

May 7th, 2012 | Essays, Social Justice | Read More

An English Teacher Looks At Rush Limbaugh

I teach English, writing and public speaking at the college level. There are three key principles of communication; to inform, to persuade and to entertain. Effective and memorable communicators will incorporate at least one, but preferably all three, of these. Rush Limbaugh, much to my amazement,...

March 20th, 2012 | Democracy | Read More

Novocaine

Imagine you have a serious toothache, and so you go to the dentist to get it fixed. The dentist takes x-rays, pokes around on your teeth and tells you that you have a deep cavity. But instead of getting out his drills and the cement needed to perform a root canal, he just pulls out a syringe of novocaine...

March 13th, 2012 | Essays, Featured, Part of the Solution, Social Justice | Read More

Five Books to Help You Skip the Culture Wars This Election

We’re sixteen Republican debates into the election season. By November, we’ll have all whipped ourselves into a vitriolic froth and will have convinced ourselves that the very survival of the planet hinged on the result of the...

January 25th, 2012 | Blog, Books, Democracy | Read More

Beware of the White Knight

I’m doing some character research for an upcoming book and have been looking a quartet of characters in Revelation we commonly refer to as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Interpreters generally see the four horsemen as personifications of “conquest”, “war”, “pestilence/...

September 27th, 2011 | Blog, Featured | Read More