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If I had to describe my rather short life on social media, I would depict the bulk of it as “THE MEME WARS.” Since you are reading this online, I doubt I have to explain to you that memes are those pictures that people post with snappy little...
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June 14, 2017 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Ethics, Society, Theology
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The article, “I Lost My Purity (And I Haven’t Had Sex)”[1] is well written, provocative, cleverly titled, and advances the true notion that sexual purity is bigger than virginity, fornication, and physical adultery. In “Let’s Think About This Practically: A Response to “I Lost My Purity (And I...
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March 27, 2017 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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It is common to find certain posts on social media that have gone viral. They are usually something provocative that challenges (at least in my circles) the standard Evangelical Christian sense of things, and almost always have some ensnaring title that promises titillation. I’ve been sitting on this...
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March 24, 2017 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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Two realities confront us a Christians. The first is that, as loving members of our own communities, it is unthinkable that we do not do all that is in our power to secure the safety and prosperity general of that community. We are to pray for and participate...
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March 22, 2017 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society, Theology
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There is an old saying that goes, “If you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at 40 you have no brain.” Indeed, liberals are often accredited with having a heart to help the less fortunate… mostly because it is easier...
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January 13, 2017 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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There’s been a lot of chatter on social media of late about torture. Now, torture is a powerful weasel word… i.e. a term that comes pre-loaded with good or bad sentiment meant to manipulate the outcome of an exchange without having to resort to actual discussion, facts, or...
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December 26, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Contexualization, Ethics, Society
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A lot of people have terrible things happen to them. Some children are beaten, sexually assaulted, feast on a steady diet of verbally demeaning rhetoric. There is war and oppressive governments finding newer and better ways to keep the citizenry cowed in hopelessness and fear, or distracted with...
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December 12, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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I don’t read Christian fiction. As an Old Testament scholar, I have an affinity with message in story and, like many of the investigators in my favorite novels, I enjoy the Sherlock Holmes-iness of reaching back through the ages to discern the intention of those masters who wrote...
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August 15, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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Living, as Americans, in a culture of divorce makes any dialogue on divorce and the Christian difficult. Indeed, any teaching set forward on divorce and remarriage will no longer be a marginal issue affecting only a small fraction of the Church, but will be tested in every conceivable...
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August 10, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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In Fatal Addiction, James Dobson interviews serial killer Ted Bundy only a few hours before his execution. Oddly enough, the main topic of conversation is not his pending death. Rather, in his last hour, a seemingly sorrowful Bundy warns against the destructive influences of pornography. In light of...
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June 22, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Ethics
The number of ethical issues raised by a reading of The Hiding Place highlights the struggle encountered by those, who, taking sin seriously, seek to please the Lord in this world. Corrie Ten Boom’s tale of delivering the innocent from Nazi villainy poses an ethical challenge to me,...
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June 15, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Ethics
With the development of medical technology, society is placed in unique ethical dilemmas, which are not easily answered by scriptural commands concerning the preserving and taking of human life. Of these, the most complex is the capacity to preserve life long after the capacity for cognitive life is...
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May 20, 2016 Andrew Sargent
Ethics
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Seems a day late and a dollar short to discuss the travesty of the last presidential election almost three years ago, but one of the reasons for the failure of conservatives and evangelical then, remains now, and is actually a bit of a staple of the conservative mind....
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June 3, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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We have a guest blogger today. Othello Mugugu who originally hails from Zimbabwe, has a Bachelors from Northpoint Bible College, Serves in the American Army, is just completing his Masters in Religious Studies from Providence College in Providence Rhode Island. He has been studying various social and ethical...
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March 27, 2015 Andrew Sargent
Ethics, Society
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