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With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid and contagious here we are now, entertain us- Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. These lyrics resonate with cultural trends expressing a desire to be entertained. This hunger for being entertained is directly paralleled to our consumerist culture. And marketing business knows that. Just look online, you can get countless free bonuses to play any casino game you want. Free spins, welcome bonuses, loyalty points, you are just two clicks away from immediately playing real money poker, roulette, slots, blackjack. As western Christians, who are an expert concert-going generation seeking entertainment, we have developed misconceptions, leading to a consumerist style…

My footsteps fall with a crunch, as I tramp through the nearly silent, predawn forest. The only sounds that float on the air are those of my gingerly obnoxious footfalls and the call of a single songbird as it preemptively declares the dawning of a new day. My pant legs already hang wet from the…

Apparently, somewhere over the mountains and the sea, God has a river flowing with love. And, when they are truly in a state of worship, a person can actually feel a God-song rising up in them. This World Christian Organization would like to know the location of such a river or the sensation of a…

My Point of View My biblical perspective on radio is something that I, personally, am still working through.  Recently it has been a struggle to decide what radio for Christian News Journal looks like for the Christian, what it ought to look like, and whether that is true for every Christian in radio and how…

To Begin sitting and watching half of my peers in the student body respond to a call to “cross-cultural ministry” near the end of Missions Conference 2012, made me uneasy. A few hundred, from what I could guess, got up from their seats, walked to the front, and stood behind the speaker as he hailed…

Introduction Living in the second decade of the 21st century, it is easy to forget that the technologies that characterize our every day lives were, at best, a far-fetched dream not that long ago. The web log, or blog, as it has come to be known, is no exception. For, as Andrew Sullivan writes, “Every writer since the…

Hip Hop, is known by some as the small genre that encouraged black and brown teens from the Bronx to speak out against injustice. To others the industries new cash cow, or if you’re a black history major you might say it’s the new Black face American for woman and African American entertainers. Yet, some have found…

“As I studied the Gospels, it became clear to me that Jesus understood well the principle of reaching the poor.  He avoided the major cities, the rich, the famous and the powerful, concentrating His ministry on the poor laboring class.  If we reach the poor, we have touched the masses of [the world]” (Yohannan 29). …