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A Uses and Gratifications Study of Contemporary Christian Radio Web Sites

Josh Bentley writes in 2012: * Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) is a style of music that arose out of the Jesus Movement in the 1970s (Lochte, 2007; Woods, 1999). Musically, it has become very similar to mainstream adult contemporary or … Continue reading

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What does it mean to be a Christian? (4-6-21)

00:00 What does it mean to be Christian or Jewish? https://twitter.com/lukeford/status/1379499997310328834 03:00 Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ 10:00 Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138249 21:00 Why Mental Health Treatment Often Fails, https://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-mental-health-treatment-often-fails.html 22:00 Science Plays the … Continue reading

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David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief: An Intellectual Biography

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Frederic Beiser: * the vast majority of the Protestant population in the early nineteenth century still saw the Bible as the foundation for their faith. Ever since the Reformation, the Protestant … Continue reading

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The Thriving Business of Christian Prophecy And Its 2020 Embarrassments (2-11-21)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.500577 (My dad’s second PhD thesis)

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Ravi Zacharias — Christian Apologist, Scholar Fraud & Sexual Philanderer (2-11-21)

https://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2017/11/13/the-christian-industrial-complex-shields-its-own/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Zacharias https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/02/09/ravi-zacharias-apologist-rzim-sexual-misconduct-lori-anne-thompson-spa/ https://www.tumblr.com/markblackham/109527094963/uppity-poppy-syndrome https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/65626235/eleanor-catton-should-speak-the-truth-as-she-sees-it

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