Matt Selman tries to break his addiction: “Video Games are as much a drug as heroin or crystal meth, in that when you play them, you feel GREAT. I defy any to drug user to say the sensation of sitting back in your couch as that first game of Grand Theft Auto IV loads up doesn’t compare to a veinful of the finest black tar street horse.” Read more

What I Learned in Reality TV School: “It amounted to a three-hour lesson in cultivating narcissism—being one’s self as noisily as possible.” Read more

Jesus for President They’re spiritual misfits. Rabble-rousers. They packed the shell of the old Baptist church on Negley Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to hear author, Christian activist and fellow misfit Shane Claiborne stump on the campaign for a third party candidate, Jesus. Read more

Why Aslan Is the Worst Thing About Prince Caspian – Lev Grossman hits the nail on the head: “If I had a problem with the movie, it’s the same problem I have with the book, which is what the hell is Aslan doing playing peekaboo with Lucy for most of the story while all the Narnians are dying for him? I felt furious with him when he finally showed up, but all the characters just worshipped him as usual. To... Read more

More about the Obama/Dobson Feud From the Washington Post: If Christian conservatives want to be taken seriously, they need to make serious arguments and speak with intellectual integrity. In this instance, Dobson didn’t. He has set back his cause and made some of us who are evangelicals and conservatives wince. Read more

Bringing God’s Word To Every Cultural Sphere Read more

Rolling Stone takes on Joel Osteen. Read more

Spain wins Euro2008 with a 1-0 victory over Germany. Read more

Christian College Students Don’t Know Christianity. That’s the thought of Barbara Brown Taylor’s insightful article.  She teaches at Piedmont College and Columbia Theological Seminary. Read more