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Pixar’s “Up” is totally cheating
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Patton Dodd
This looks to be another in a series of Pixar directors moving further away from pure pop and closer to pop art (though Brad Bird kinda skipped over the pure pop stage entirely). But does it bother anyone else that they totally cheated their way to the reveal? Â
Culture War and context
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Patton Dodd
On election night, a Facebook (and real life!) friend, Brandon, posted a status update to the effect that Americans were naive for voting for Obama. I took issue with Brandon’s remark, which he had first delivered to me over iChat, and it prompted a couple days of discussion and disagreement between us. This was standard…
The changing of the evangelical guard
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Patton Dodd
Sociologist Michael Lindsay (author of Faith in the Halls of Power, one of last year’s best religion books) weighs in on the shifting ground of evangelical influence in the Beltway.
Cultivators and Creators: An Interview with Andy Crouch
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Patton Dodd
Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Rediscovering Our Creative Calling is the Christian book of the year–its Publisher’s Weekly nod for best religion book won’t be its last. The concept of “culture” has been something of a snare for American Christians–we’ve critiqued culture and we’ve copied culture, but we’ve not always cultivated viable cultures of our own. Crouch…
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