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Another Week Ends: America’s God, Plastic Surgery, Channel Surfing, Woeman, RIP and a better McLaren emerges.
Celebrity / Church / Film / Identity / Religion / TV / Week In Review

Another Week Ends: America’s God, Plastic Surgery, Channel Surfing, Woeman, RIP and a better McLaren emerges.

by JDK on Mar 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

Dave gave me the opportunity to post an entry into the “Week Ends” franchise, so here are some things that have been sent directly to my instapaper.com account–enjoy! JDK

1: As we are want to say, something is rotten in the state of American Protestantism, and while one may take issue (and does) with his appreciation for Aquinas’ virtue ethics and the beard, this article by Stanley Hauerwas is a must read. An excerpt:

America is a synthesis of evangelical Protestantism, republican political ideology, and commonsense moral reasoning. Americans were able to synthesize these antithetical traditions by making their…

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Top Five from the Past Decade
Film / Music / Theology / TV / Year In Review

Top Five from the Past Decade

by David Browder on Dec 31, 2009 • 13 Comments

This has been a powerful and wonderful decade for me. I got married to an unbelievable woman, made lifetime friends at a very unlikely place, saw the resurgence of Alabama football, worked everywhere from political campaigns to banks to churches, and had a movement toward agnosticism arrested by hearing the Gospel in April of 2003. I laughed, cried, and blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, here are my Top 5 lists:

Top 5 Movies Made in the Decade of the Naughts:1) Black Snake Moan – If there is a more Gospel-centric movie, I would like to see it. Not for the kiddies.2) Stranger than…

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Jimmy McNulty, Walter White and the Search for a Gracious God
Grace in Practice / Theology / TV

Jimmy McNulty, Walter White and the Search for a Gracious God

by David Browder on Jun 19, 2009 • 8 Comments

There have not been many television shows as good as the HBO series The Wire. Some, such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, are in the same league. Others would probably argue for Friday Night Lights (this is a great dispensation for television!). Whatever your poison might be, The Wire and I have spent a great deal of time together. Detective Jimmy McNulty is one of the heroes/anti-heroes of the series whose deft investigatory skills and genuine sincerity about his work are tempered by a high-functioning alcoholism, arrogance, deviousness, and a long line of broken relationships. He is the perfect…

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Vice Attracts Virtue, or Why Susan Boyle Will Never Appear on Breaking Bad
Philosophy / Theology / TV

Vice Attracts Virtue, or Why Susan Boyle Will Never Appear on Breaking Bad

by David Browder on Jun 10, 2009 • 9 Comments

Throughout our lives, we have all been exposed to stories about hidden gems of human beings who have been serendipitously discovered by those with the power to better their lives. Usually, they have a rare but prodigious gift that is presented as having the potential to make the world a better place. I’m thinking here of Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, Shaquille O’Neal in Blue Chips, Jamie Foxx in The Soloist, and the list goes on and on.

These stories always warm the heart at first, but then a realization sets in. I am not a mathematics prodigy. What about…

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