Month August 2005

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American Idolatry

I start with a shameful confession. I belong to a family which regularly watches the frightful drivel called American Idol. All I can plead in mitigation is that my children are avid followers of the program; and both sons compensate…

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Cybersin

 I want to speak with you about the single greatest threat to romantic love in America today, and possibly in human history. I refer, of course, to the ready availability of internet pornography. Nearly ten years ago, before I had…

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Cybersin

 I want to speak with you about the single greatest threat to romantic love in America today, and possibly in human history. I refer, of course, to the ready availability of internet pornography. Nearly ten years ago, before I had…

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The Purpose Driven Life

This review originally appeared in the January 2005 9Marks newsletter. We are grateful for their permission to republish it hereI)  Introduction Books on living the Christian life are a dime a dozen. The shelves of Christian bookstores bow under the…

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Gilead

 Carrying biblical overtones and set in the rural Iowa town of Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s second novel is the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction–and with good reason. In a spare prose that rings with psychological realism and moral…