October 26, 2016
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, Racism, race, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, President Obama, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Christianity, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, systemic racism
Jacob Phillips on why the success of individual African-Americans or Christians doesn't disprove allegations of systemic racism or bias against Christianity. ...
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August 3, 2016
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, Racism, race, #blacklivesmatter, Redeemer Church Lake Nona, Black lives matter, colorblind, police
Janelle, a white mother, writes about what she wants to teach her sons about their black friends ...
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May 6, 2016
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, art, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, movies, God's Not Dead, film, representation, God's Not Dead 2
Jake Phillips talks about the "God's Not Dead" franchise and why it's problematic. ...
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January 6, 2016
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, John Piper, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, ethics, self-defense, guns, Augustine
Part 2 of Joey's article about John Piper, guns and lethal self-defense...
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January 4, 2016
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, John Piper, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, ethics, terrorism, self-defense, guns, Second Amendment, American Vision, Muslims
It is a temptation within American evangelicalism to conflate cultural and political values with biblical teaching. John Piper might be right about guns and self-defense, or he might be wrong. Either way, we can learn from him how to approach our own values based on the Bible rather than only the Constitution....
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December 2, 2015
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, abortion, the gospel coalition, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, Karen Swallow Prior, murder, rhetoric, Joe Carter, Frank Turk, Christianity Today
There's a recent debate in evangelicalism about when, if ever, to call abortion "murder." Jake Phillips weighs in. ...
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November 12, 2015
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, brain, science, The Brain with David Eagleman, Carl Sagan, Colossians
Bob Putman analyzes The Brain with David Eagleman, a PBS production, and how it both wildly misses the point, but also demonstrates the glory and power of God. ...
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June 26, 2015
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, trayvon martin, Racism, redeemer, race, Ferguson, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, slavery, #blacklivesmatter, Charleston, Confederate flag, racist, Trayvon, Eric Garner, Nazi, Jim Crow
Janelle Garrett writes about searching our own hearts, and being honest about what we find....
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June 2, 2015
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Cultural Values
| Tags: humility, cultural values, cultural engagement, empathy, emotion
A young guy about age 20 walked into the lobby and asked for a job application. I explained we weren’t hiring, so he said he wanted a pack of Marlboros. I walked over behind the counter, handed him the cigarettes and told him that would be 50 cents. (Yes, you read that right.) He produced a $1 bill and when I opened the drawer to get change he told me he wanted all t...
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May 13, 2015
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Cultural Values
| Tags: Redeemer Church, Lake Nona Church, lake Nona, Redeemer Church at Lake Nona, ethics, for-profit prisons, criminal justice, prison-industrial complex, corporations, fiduciary duties, duty of care, prisons, incarceration rates
Jake Phillips writes about for-profit prisons and the problem of fiduciary duties. ...
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