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Easter Morning And New Realities: To Be Made Alive Together With, Aaron Baart

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"You and I were made alive together with Christ. So when he was raised from the dead, so were we. When he conquered sin and death, and hell, and all its final implications, in a very real way, so did we."

Posting about celebrating new life in Christ from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/easter-morning-and-new-realities-to-be-made-alive-together-with/

Being Grateful For My "Stupid Little Life": Why We Need Movies, Jason Lief

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"More and more I’m convinced the current cultural paradigm leaves us too thin. The practical and objective approach to reality doesn’t attend to the complexity and mystery of the created world; it doesn’t attend to the complexity and mystery of our humanity."

Posting about how movies help make sense of our experiences from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/being-grateful-for-my-stupid-little-life-why-we-need-movies/

Mediating The Sacred: Popular Culture As Liturgical Icon In A Secular Age, Jason Lief

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This presentation explores how popular culture and the new forms of technology that mediate it function as a "cultural liturgy" within the immanent frame of secularity. Poetic and symbolic expressions that mediate the sacred within the lived experience of young people will be shared. Icons within the secular experience of young people in the West can be seen positively by Christians. This paper draws from research conducted for a forthcoming book on the relationship between Heavy Metal music and Theology.