Sweet Eureka: The Ironically Dark Knight

Had one of those sweet “ah-ha” moments as I was watching the closing scenes of “Batman: The Dark knight”.
I went something like this: “Oh, I get it! He’s the good guy who’s willing to play the bad guy in order to be the good guy. Harvey Dent was the ‘white knight’ of Gotham. Batman is [...]

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Heath Ledger’s Joker is the Sanest Man in Gotham

For anyone who actually checks up on me here regularly I have to apologize. Since Omaha Bible Church’s South Campus has gotten underway I’ve been teaching Adult Bible School and ! Corinthians 12-14 have been wiping the floor with me. Most evenings aren’t winding down till 9:30 or 10pm, and I just haven’t have the [...]

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(Re)Thinking redux

For those of you who have not already read this when it was originally posted over at irishcalvinist.com, here’s my recent review of “(Re)Thinking Worldview” by J. Mark Bertrand. (It was a real kick to see the review noted at Bertrand’s website, definitely a blogo-history moment for me!)

(Re)Thinking Worldview is a fun read that will [...]

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Toward a Christian perspective on art

Everybody warm up your proverbial right-brain.
I read J. Mark Bertrand’s “(Re)Thinking Worldview” recently (review pending). Among other useful elements, the book had me thinking again about the meaning and use of art in all mediums. Bertrand has much to say about employing one’s worldview as a filter to both create and appraise art. He further [...]

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Deconstructing worldview for epistemologigal cheaters…like me.

Here’s the funny thing about worldview: Everybody has one, but it’s not the one they say they have.
Mark Driscoll reminded me of this in “Radical Reformission”, saying that people usually act in contradiction to the worldview they profess.
This fact is at the heart of how we as Christians use worldview as a tool for evangelism. [...]

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