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Many Bad Bibles … and the Worst of them All

June 26, 2015 by Randal

I buy bad Bibles. Call it a perverse fascination with consumer culture if you like. I prefer to think of it as a genuine interest in the ceaseless ways that the marketplace finds to represent the Bible to those who have the money to pay for it. The charismatics get Spirit-filled study Bibles, the tree […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, Bibleman, capitalism, consumerism, marketing

A great deal on Burt’s Bees lip balm

January 1, 2015 by Randal

This afternoon I was in Rexall Drugstore when I discovered that Burt’s Bees was on sale … for 3 cents off. (Kudos to my daughter for being the first to spot this lip-smacking deal.) Now as a general rule of thumb, I believe that stores should not bother advertising discounts of less than 1%, particularly […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Burt's Bees, marketing, Rexall

The creepiest birthday wish ever

March 8, 2013 by Randal

I turned forty today. Too bad I live in a culture that celebrates youth rather than age. *** When I was a young boy I realized I had received a diagnosis for a terminal illness. It turned out that I suffer from human mortality syndrome (HMS). Although I feel fine at the moment my doctor reassures me […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: existentialism, Google, information, marketing, mortality, privacy

Is the church supposed to be “a place for you”?

September 29, 2011 by Randal

In the late 1970s a young preacher named Rick Warren started going door to door asking people why they didn’t attend church. He then took that data and used it as a basis to start his church. And the rest, as they say, is history. I’m sure you could learn a lot of value from an […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: C.S. Lewis, church, consumerism, discipleship, ecclesiology, individualism, marketing, Rick Warren

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