Culture

Article The Fall of the American Dream
- By Frank A. Thomas
- Posted on April 16th, 2012
The term “American Dream” is only eighty years old. In the grim and turbulent atmosphere of the Great Depression in 1931, historian James Trunslow Adams…
Article The Land of Shiny Things
- By Toni Birdsong and Tami Heim
- Posted on March 19th, 2012
Welcome to the Land of Shiny Things. Your citizenship was not overtly solicited, but gradually you made your way here. You are an unwitting but active, dues-paying resident. The…
Article Called to Be Healers
- By Enuma Okoro
- Posted on December 17th, 2011
One of the most hotly debated issues during the last presidential campaign was health care reform. Though they disagreed on how to make sure that Americans receive the care they…
Article Why the Church Should Listen to Lady Gaga
- By David Dorn
- Posted on December 16th, 2011
The most popular theologian in the world right now is…(drum roll please) Lady Gaga? I said most popular, not most prolific or even the most accurate. But as far as…
Article War on Christmas
- By Matt Appling
- Posted on December 4th, 2011
The Christmas season is officially upon us. The holiday decorations are up in malls and homes. Shoppers are out in full force (as a stack of news links again detailed the worst…
Article Accessibility, Not Control
- By Bob Whitesel
- Posted on October 31st, 2011
In April 1963 a Pentagon scientist named J.C.R. Licklider argued the time had come for a universal computer network to speed scientific collaboration. Not surprisingly, over …