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Author Archives: Victoria Emily Jones
Stop making fun of “Kumbaya”
“Kumbaya” began as the sincere plea of a generation of African Americans for God’s intervention, but since entering popular culture in the 1950s it has become a metaphor of naive optimism or corny camaraderie and thus a term of derision, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged african american spirituals, geechee, gullah, kumbaya hippies, origin of kumbaya, what does kumbaya mean
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Tee Time: Jesus died for MySpace in heaven
Found at ebay.com.
A 20th-century shift in the arts
“Unfortunately, the past century has systematically produced a culture of artists who believe their greatest responsibility is to be true to themselves, and not to a truth which exists outside of them. They are taught that to grow as artists … Continue reading
Posted in Western Art
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Tee Time: Jesus on Twitter
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Sex Roundup
Here are a few noteworthy articles on sex-related topics: prostitution, human trafficking, sex addiction, masturbation, and pornography—they’re all tied together. And then there’s one that considers physical release as a husband’s primary motivator for pursuing sex—is this good, bad, or … Continue reading
Tee Time: I Like Jesus
Found at kerusso.com.
What We Know about Easter
By David Kwabi and Tout Wang This is a guest post written by David Kwabi, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT, and Tout Wang, a PhD candidate in physics at Harvard University. Both men are interested in exploring … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, History, Theology
Tagged evidence of the resurrection, first easter, reliability of the gospels
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Tee Time: Do you accept Jesus’s Faithbook friend request?
Jesus is on social media, apparently. And for the next several weeks I’ll be featuring T-shirts on that theme. For the first installment we have a shirt from kerusso.com and one from soloshop.biz.
Bill Viola’s Emergence as a Picture of the Resurrected Christ and the New Birth of Believers
Water shows up a lot in the Christian scriptures and, along with bread and wine, is central to the sacramental life of the church. In the rite of baptism, it signifies purification or cleansing, even as it signifies too the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Western Art
Tagged born again, Jesus resurrection, second birth, video art
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Tee Time: Easter—it’s all about Jesus
Found at spreadshirt.com.
The Jesus Question 