In 1994, I spent a summer teaching English in Japan. It was at that time that I first became acquainted with the massively popular Japanese visual kei metal band X (aka X Japan). The best way to describe visual kei is that it is a Japanese adaptation of glam metal with a uniquely Japanese aesthetic such […]
Good Friday
The Death of Jesus, the rape of a woman, and a concept called “Imputation”
On Good Friday two billion Christians around the world turn their eyes to that mysterious event two thousand years ago when Jesus Christ died “for our sins”. It is a time for somber, pietistic reflection. But it is also a time to ask the hard theological question: what does that mean? Perhaps the most common explanation, at […]