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Thoughts After Reading and Seeing Watchmen

By C. Joshua Villines | April 22, 2009 - 18:57 |April 18, 2015 Personal
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The violence of Watchmen is secondary to its deconstruction of the idea of heroes in literature and comics, and seeing it with our son allowed me the opportunity to discuss important questions of good and evil, fear and peace, and morality with him. Continue reading →

Tagged biography, family, literature, movies

The Great Bread Pan Experiment

By C. Joshua Villines | April 22, 2009 - 18:46 |April 22, 2009 Personal
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It turns out that you really do get what you pay for with bread pans. Continue reading →

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Politics Should Stay Out of the Pulpit

By C. Joshua Villines | April 22, 2009 - 18:42 |April 22, 2009 Politics
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Endorsing a candidate from the pulpit demeans Christian worship. Continue reading →

Tagged Christianity, church-state separation, integrity, political, religion

Who Really Explains Away the Bible?

By C. Joshua Villines | April 22, 2009 - 18:41 |January 19, 2013 Faith
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Fundamentalists ignore far more of the “plain reading” of Scripture than they would like to admit. The more mature approach is simply to let the biblical writings be what their authors intended for them to be. Continue reading →

Tagged biblical interpretation, Christianity, fundamentalism, religion

Are We Really Saving People from Hell?

By C. Joshua Villines | April 22, 2009 - 18:37 |April 22, 2009 Faith
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Is the function of the gospel really to save people from Hell? Continue reading →

Tagged biblical interpretation, Christianity, gospel, religion
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