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• And don’t wear white after Labor Day

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Pop Culture, World Religions, First Person, Sex

  The intersection of religion and dress is most fascinating to me. I grew up with a mother who was far and away the most fashionable pastor’s wife I knew. And then I also had acquaintances and neighbors involved in the Christian modesty movement, which required women to wear large pieces of fabric that covered them extensively. As I prepare

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• Hip hop violin, making string instruments cool for...

  Published: July 12, 2007, 2:51 pm

  Tags: Pop Culture, Music

  Hip hop violin, making string instruments cool for the 21st century:

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• I'm a big girl now, I'm five There is something I...

  Published: June 19, 2007, 8:04 pm

  Tags: Pop Culture

  I'm a big girl now, I'm fiveThere is something I love about the aesthetic (if one can call it that) of the late 70s and early 80s. Early Muppet Show, early Sesame Street, current episodes of Mexican reality-dance shows...maybe it's because I didn't start going to school until fall of 1980 and, according to my second grade diary, didn't truly start

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• Damn, Daily Show, put the gun down... [video]

  Published: May 27, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Wesleyan, Pop Culture

  Damn, Daily Show, put the gun down...[video]

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• Mini Cooper Cruising

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Cooper S, Mini, Pop Culture

  There seems to be a lot of rumors of what the next Mini variation might be. After the new Clubman debuts soon, there's word an SUV might be next. Or Mini could just follow in the footsteps of an industrious Spanish Mini owner and build a Mini Cooper boat. We don't have much more information on the transport shown here other than it was indeed a

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• Capper as a Meter Man

  Published: July 29, 2007, 4:54 am

  Tags: Tat, Pop Culture, Movies

  Whilst waiting for Thai pickup I happened to be flicking through a semi-dated New Idea. It's then I discovered that the man who put the word short into 'short shorts', Warwick Capper, had become a meter man.Ah the Meter Maids, the garish headliners of Surfer's Paradise and synonymous with 80's excess of tat meets the beach.You can find a copy of

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• Gimme some truth

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:04 am

  Tags: Film, Pop Culture, Music, Evangelicals

  Lorenza Muñoz of the Los Angeles Times provides a serviceable and evenhanded report on FoxFaith and its effort to exploit the market first proven by The Passion of the Christ. There’s one refreshing difference in FoxFaith’s collaboration with producer Jeff Clanagan: Making more films for African American and Latino audiences.

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• DeLorean Making a Small Comeback

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:22 am

  Tags: Pop Culture

  The car made famous by the Back to the Future movies and Cars.com's top movie car for two years running is back. Well, not really back, but a small custom shop in Texas has bought the DeLorean Motor Company name and parts after the original went bankrupt. The new DeLorean company is delivering completely rebuilt gull-wing cars at

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• How great thou art

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Godbeat, Academia, Pop Culture, Evangelicals

  He speaks with observers of culture and Christianity and compares the new movement with Christian artistic efforts from the past. Rather than aping the culture as much of contemporary Christian music does or selling accessible but artistically unimaginative paintings like, well, Thomas Kinkade, the new movement is about making good art first and

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• What's In a Brand Name?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:56 pm

  Tags: Car Buying, Chevrolet, Pop Culture, Scion

  Would Lindsay Lohan be more popular if she changed her name to Oprah? Or would things be even worse if she opted to go by Osama, instead? Just how important is a name in obtaining acceptance and avoiding failure? According to a new study by CNW Marketing Research, a name is vital, and to prove the point, CNW did some moniker-switching to

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• There is a God!

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:07 pm

  Tags: Pop Culture, Philanthropy, People

  Sometimes I doubt the existence of G-d. How else can one explain Paris Hilton’s “success,” other than to declare G-d nonexistent? What just and merciful creator would allow such a lowly creature to thrive in His world? Uch. I’ve taken to reading the eleventh blessing of the Amidah,

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• Ingmar Bergman is dead, dead, dead

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Film, Academia, Pop Culture, Mainline

  the Culture Wars era, the U.S. Supreme Court has been forced to wrestle with this question: Can a government-supported advocacy of “secular humanism” (scare quotes were the norm) become a form of religion? I think the more important question is whether government-supported advocacy of Universalism is a form of doctrinal

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• Potter dispels Chrisian critics

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Journalism, Books, Pop Culture, Religion, Evangelicals

  About a month ago I had lunch with Tmatt who gave me solid arguments for why the Harry Potter series were loaded with Christian themes and messages. I didn’t need much convincing since the arguments that the books were devil-possessed and bringing children into the occult sounded a lot like the ones people used against C.S. Lewis’s

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• $10 Million for First 100 mpg Car

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Hybrids Alternative Fuels, Pop Culture

  More than 30 teams from companies including Tesla Motors and Zap Automotive have signed on for the Automotive X Prize to see who can win a race of 100 mpg (or equivalent) automobiles. The cars can run on a variety of fuels including electricity, natural gas, diesel or unleaded gasoline; they just have to get at least 100 mpg. They also have to

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• BarlowGirl: Spiritual Songs with Purpose

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Christian Music, Dvds, Entertainment, Music, Pop Culture, Barlowgirl, Christian Rock, Christianity, Culture

  Evanescence mixed with the pop/rock feel of Kelly Clarkson. I not only like the music, but I like their unabashed approach to presenting songs with meaning and purpose for people who are growing spiritually--and those who need to. This is BarlowGirl's third studio album and it's just been released. There's also a special edition format

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