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  • Instinct

    Is man basically good or bad? It is a question that has flustered even the loftiest intellectual. Great thinkers throughout the ages, in their own unique ways, have attempted to give voice to the answer. Erudite scholars such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Kant have weighed in on man's inherent state. But before you think this article is going to be a treatise on 19th & 20th philosophy, be not afraid. When it comes to providing such in-depth analysis, I won't and I Kant. (Come on! You'd do the same joke if you had the chance.)

  • The Male & Female Brain: Which is better?

    Male and female brains, which is better? Men and women for years have tried to get a handle on this one. I thought I'd take my stab at it as well.

  • Convoy of Hope teams up with Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungy

    Springfield, Mo.- Convoy of Hope has partnered with Tony Dungy and a host of collegiate and NFL coaches and players and Fathom Events to jumpstart the upcoming high school football season with a nationwide kickoff dubbed Tony Dungy's Red Zone 09.

  • Scott Hamilton Announces Return to Ice Skating

    March 17, 2009 - Nashville, TN - Scott Hamilton - the most recognized male figure skating star in the world - today announced his return to the rink, after having not performed on ice skates since being diagnosed with a benign pituitary brain tumor in 2004.

  • Alaskan church on target with men's "game dinner"

    Each year, the men of Wrangell, Alaska, look forward to the free men's game dinner at Harbor Light Assembly of God. The most recent dinner on February 8 had a record turnout with more than 120 men and their sons in attendance.

  • Big Shoes To Fill

    Joe Girardi knows the pressure of being the 32nd manager of the New York Yankees. But the 43-year-old former catcher wouldn’t trade places with anyone.

    “Managing the Yankees was something I always wanted to do,” he said. “Because of the tradition, and basically, what the word Yankees stands for.”

    Success and overachievement have been Girardi’s hallmarks throughout his life. Raised in Peoria, Illinois, the fourth of five children learned the value of hard work and discipline by helping out in his parents’ Italian restaurant.

  • Thirty-five Years and Forty-five Million

    This year marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which effectively codified the right of women to procure an abortion. It is an anniversary that demands somber reflection on the past thirty-five years as well as a hopeful look to the future. It is unlikely there is a more contentious issue in modern American politics than abortion. Both sides of the issue are passionate and use the issue as a litmus test for both political candidates and judicial nominees. However, while the issue is polarizing, I believe there is common ground.

  • Decision 2008

    The Presidential political season is in full effect once again in these United States, although “season” may be misleading because it seems the next election cycle begins as soon as the previous election ends. While some of the candidates from both parties are more hated or less liked than their peers, America ultimately remains a nation divided...

  • Keep Your First Life!

    I'll admit it. I haven't played Second Life, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, or any other MMORPG, but I have played games like them. I will also admit that the games are dangerously addictive. Unfortunately, they were also a lot of fun. I obsessed about my next set of moves in Legend of the Green Dragon (LotGD only allows so many moves per game session). With Battle for Wesnoth, I obsessed over better strategy to capture Elensfar or Blackwater Port. Thankfully, I recognized the danger playing the games had for me before it was too late.

  • What I learned from Survivor: Fiji

    I’ve got a confession to make. I watch reality TV. I know it’s a waste of time and some sort of intellectual heresy to do so but I can’t help it. It’s my guilty pleasure. I haven’t watched “Survivor” in years but got hooked early this season when my friend Jason convinced me to give the show a chance. I did, and I’m glad. I learned a lot about people during this microcosm of sociological experimentation that I think is worth sharing.

  • Fair and Balanced: Your News at Six

    Media in all its forms is inextricably linked to twists and turns of culture. Rather than being passive reporters of the happenings and trends in society, media regularly drives the discussion.

  • The God Debate

    Christianity must be more than a private religion. If Christianity isn’t present in public, it’s powerless in private. The most damaging attack that can be made against Christians today is a failure to live as though we have been changed.

  • Dumbledore and the Art of Christian Protest

    With the publication and release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it seemed likely that the series would continue its run of successful movies and merchandise sales free from any future controversy. That may have changed in late October.

  • Fame

    By Chris Beasley “I’ll make you famous.” Thus states Billy the Kid in one of the greatest movies ever made, Young Guns 2. Okay, that might be a stretch. But the quote strikes at one of the universal desires of people. We have a fascination with fame – a morbid, unhealthy fascination. Grocery store tabloids, web-page gossip sections, cable pop-culture shows, and even the networks nightly news all fill our desire to have the latest information on people who are famous. It doesn’t even matter what they’re famous for or why they’re in the news.

  • Blasphemy Challenge

    By now you’ve surely heard of the Blasphemy Challenge (www.blasphemychallenge.com). If you haven’t, you should have. Blasphemy Challenge has been in Christian magazines, on network news, and has been referenced in several syndicated shows. I’ve hesitated to write an article about the Blasphemy Challenge because there are plenty of people fired up about this one and it seems too easy to be on the right side. But, alas, I concede it’s simply too important to pass up.

  • 7-7-07

    By Chris Beasley 7.7.07. Surely this had to be an important day. It was important to me for a couple of reasons. First, my incredible wife, Stephanie, turned 31. Since I’m still thirty, it was a good day for me to gloat concerning my relative youth and make jokes about her getting old. Second, 7-7-07 was the kickoff of Live Earth. If you missed Live Earth, you missed perhaps the greatest concert event ever televised or broadcast. More than 100 musical acts and dozens of celebrities from various places joined together to provide “Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.”

  • Chi Alpha – Ministry Becoming Part of Collegiate Landscape

    Chi Alpha, the Assemblies of God U.S. Missions ministry to students at secular college campuses, is becoming more entrenched in the cultures of their campuses. A sure sign that the ministry is becoming established is that Chi Alpha houses seem to be popping up all over the place - from East to West Coast and everywhere in between. During 2006 alone, at least four new Chi Alpha houses came into existence.