and Culture
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Seeing Our National Past Rightly
America has a false national narrative. In the Southern California schools I attended in the 1990s we were taught these foundational concept: America as the melting pot (to describe our diversity) The ‘Cult of Domesticity’ (to describe our past male dominance) Manifest destiny (to describe America’s expansion) The melting pot concept that America came from…
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Hope in the Midst of Troubling Times
by Alexei Laushkin You can watch events in Tulsa, Oklahoma or events at Hofstra University with the first debate and feel a bit hopeless. Perhaps God is actually judging America. People who aren’t prone to such language, find themselves wondering, surely now it is our turn to understand how far we have fallen. What is…
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Faith, Beauty, and the Arts
December 30 2015 by Alexei Laushkin What should Christians say about the intersection of faith, beauty, and art? This week I came across something from a few years ago by Makoto Fujimura (currently at Fuller Theological Seminary). It’s his work Golden Sea (below) Check out the video describing the work and exploring the themes of…