Carmen Fowler LaBerge

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  May 3, 2018

  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?

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  Apr 13, 2018

  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...

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  Mar 22, 2018

  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.

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  Mar 19, 2018

  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.

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  Oct 18, 2017

  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.

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  Oct 5, 2017

  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.

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  Sep 23, 2017

  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.

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  Sep 22, 2017

  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.

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  Sep 7, 2017

  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?"

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  Sep 5, 2017

  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.