Carmen Fowler LaBerge

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  • Our Foul-Mouthed Culture and the Bible

    Our Foul-Mouthed Culture and the Bible

    Think for a moment about the words you've spoken in the last hour, the last day, the last week. Have the words of your mouth (those you've spoken out loud, those you've spoken on social media) and the meditations of your heart been acceptable in light of God's holiness and our holy calling?

  • With Culture at Boiling Point, How Should Christians Respond?

    With Culture at Boiling Point, How Should Christians Respond?

    If the following headlines had appeared in just my grandmother's generation, Christians would not have been the only people pointing to the erosion of legitimate values...

  • Is Jim Carrey Guilty of Character Assassination or Honest Caricature?

    Is Jim Carrey Guilty of Character Assassination or Honest Caricature?

    Jim Carrey's now viral caricatures of the White House Press Secretary and then the President are seen by some as political satire and by others as sacrilege.

  • Have It Your Way: Autonomy Taken to Postmodern Extremes

    Have It Your Way: Autonomy Taken to Postmodern Extremes

    It is right and good for children to grow up, individuate, and live independently, semi-autonomous from their parents. But when taken to post-modern extremes, autonomy produces individuals who have come to believe that the world literally revolves around them.

  • Scapegoat Harvey Weinstein Won't Purge the Sin of Hollywood

    Scapegoat Harvey Weinstein Won't Purge the Sin of Hollywood

    If we take them at their word that the kinds of things Weinstein did have "no place in our society," then should we expect the Academy to adjust how women are portrayed on screen? Will the over-sexualized images of women cease to be blockbusters and award winners? We won't hold our breath.

  • Keep Proclaiming Jesus in the Face of Hostility

    Keep Proclaiming Jesus in the Face of Hostility

    We should come to expect the unbelieving world will be hostile toward those who are aligned with a Lord it does not acknowledge and a God it rejects. But when people are taking pot shots at us, we recognize the real target of their rage is Jesus. They are really aiming at Him.

  • 3 Ways Christians Are on the Sidelines of Cultural Conversations

    3 Ways Christians Are on the Sidelines of Cultural Conversations

    Some will immediately protest that Christians are not on the sidelines, but loudly engaged in cultural debates in ways that certainly don't honor the Christ whose name they bear. That drives other Christians away from engagement because they don't want to be associated with a presentation of the Truth that is ugly and mean. Then there is the sideline crowd.

  • Mother Nature, Mother! Movie, and the Cultural Matricide

    Mother Nature, Mother! Movie, and the Cultural Matricide

    "Mother!" is nothing short of a horrifying mockery of women, marriage and motherhood. That is no great surprise amidst the current trend of cultural matricide in America.

  • Understanding the Free Speech Debate

    Understanding the Free Speech Debate

    Free speech protects the kind of speech we don't like. It seems obvious, but popular speech doesn't need protection because it has the benefit of public or political support. Currently, as we find more and more speech offensive, the question is raised, "do we want to extend protections to that speech?"

  • You're Only a Person If I Say So

    You're Only a Person If I Say So

    What are the consequences of the idea that human beings define not only moral authority but the moral value of other human beings? Fringe thinking? Think again.

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