Category: christianity

+ christianity, diana butler bass, mewithoutyou, mineral, music, religion, stavesacre, worship

“Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

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Over the past few years, my reading habits oscillate from fiction and graphic novels to history to religion and beyond. Sometimes I have a plan for what I want to read next, and sometimes a book just falls into my hands, as if out of nowhere. The latter is what happened recently when I picked up Diana Butler Bass’ Christianity for the Rest of Us: … Read More “Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

+ bible, christianity, easter, jesus christ, religion

“Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

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Note: I wrote this for Easter a couple of weeks ago. Throughout Holy Week this year, I have constantly been thinking about how we think about Jesus. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and whenever Palm Sunday and Easter would come around, the sermon would always focus on Jesus’ procession into Jerusalem, Judas’ betrayal, the crucifixion, and culminating with Jesus resurrection on … Read More “Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

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+ bible, christianity, jesus christ, paul, religion

What is Our Obligation to Others?

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No matter what, I always encounter ideas and behaviors that I can’t, for the life of me, wrap my head around. During college, chemistry was the discipline I just couldn’t understand, and my inability to grasp it led me to change my major, moving me towards education, a path I never thought I’d take. It’s one thing to have trouble understanding something like chemistry, … Read More What is Our Obligation to Others?

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+ alan moore, christianity, dave gibbons, dc comics, watchmen

“Who makes the world?” Religion and Morality in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s “Watchmen”

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During Dr. Manhattan’s public reveal in March 1960 in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, a newscaster stares into the camera and says, “The Superman exists, and he’s American.” Watchmen takes place in an alternate history where the United States won the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon remains president in 1985, and superhero “vigilantes,” inspired by the appearance of Superman and others in the late 1930s, protect individuals … Read More “Who makes the world?” Religion and Morality in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s “Watchmen”

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+ christianity, lillian e smith, persecution, religion, tim alberta

The Violence of Fear in Evangelical Christianity

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In “Are We Still Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills,” Lillian Smith writes, “The Devil knows that if you want to destroy a man, all you need do is fill him with false hopes and false fears. These will blind him to his new direction and he will inevitably turn away from the future and destroy himself and those close to him.” … Read More The Violence of Fear in Evangelical Christianity

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