25 December, 2007 by Matt Robison
(Forget Festivus for the Rest of Us. Guest writer Jacob Head gives a much better alternative for all of you humbugs out there.)
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Tired of too much Christ in your Christmas? Wish people would realize that Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th (If we could only tell the whole world how ignorant they are!)? Think […]

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27 November, 2007 by Matt Robison
Did you know that the main inspiration for one of modern Christianity’s foundational assumptions is Plato?
You heard that right.
It isn’t the Bible, Jesus, the early Christians, or even first century Judaism. It was the Greek philosopher Plato. And that certainly doesn’t bode well, because Plato was a complete nutball.
It’s from Plato that […]

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13 November, 2007 by Matt Robison
There is an email going around about the movie The Golden Compass. Like many typical Christian calls to action or warning, this one is steeped in fear. Several versions of the email exist, but all screech out for a mass boycott of a movie that no one has even seen yet.
The text from […]

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18 September, 2007 by Matt Robison
It is only the rare work of entertainment or culture that can deeply move me. Years of the refining of my particular tastes, combined with ever increasing demand for high standards have created a thick filter that hardly anything gets through.
So when something is created that does have the power to touch […]

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11 September, 2007 by Matt Robison
Part of what I want to do with this blog is promote Christians who answer the call to create, and so this series features various Christians who tell us, in their own words, how their faith molds and inspires their creative process.
If you are a Christian who is a musician, writer, artist, photographer, inventor, engineer, […]

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