The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Last week, filmmaker Casey Neistat released a video showing how he put $25,000 of movie studio marketing money into a relief campaign for Typhoon Haiyan victims. My cynicism is so firmly ingrained that when I see something nice, something proactive, something that might even be called “good works,” I feel […]
Way back in 2006, four churches in Portland, Oregon decided to forego the usual Christmas spending spree and donate the money they saved to Living Water International. The following year, a bunch more churches joined them in doing the same thing, again. I don’t know how many years or how […]
This makes up for everything. Rest easy, Jesus-followers everywhere. We can now move on from our gay-hating, cheap-skating reputation. It’s once again safe for you to eat in restaurants. @TipsForJesus is a modern-day Robin Hood, repairing the damage done to your spiritual-social collateral by dropping massive gratuities to flabbergasted servers […]
Update: This article was written a couple of days ago. In the few moments since it was posted, the Internet informs me that @TheYearOfElan has admitted that the whole thing was a hoax. So you know, it’s all good. Tweet on, kids. OK, help me out, will you? I can’t […]
A one in a million guy. Heck, let’s call him one in 3 billion. Because that’s how much of Mark Zuckerberg’s filthy lucre he turned down. I’m no great fan of Snapchat. I think it’s a shady operation, at best — see the end of this blog post, where founder […]
OK, srsly. When is Pope Francis going to get his celebrity-status foreshortened nickname? A false intimacy with the Catholic Church’s quiet storm feels a lot more warm and life-affirming to my insides than with, say, RPatz or Brangelina. If only his name lent itself more easily to hyphenated monikers. Po-Fran […]