by Benjamin Robinson | Sep 22, 2016 | Culture, Current Events
Mina Kim hosted a conversation on KQED’s Forum back in December of 2014 that provides a salient example of the impasse that prevents a real conversation regarding the racial tension in our country from taking place. The participants in this conversation...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jul 17, 2015 | Culture
THE SACRED INVADES THE SECULAR Benjamin Robinson | July 17, 2015 In my previous post I called for a trans-religious, rather than a non-religious, expression of the Christian faith. The heart behind this distinction is my concern that we be careful not to swing...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jul 15, 2015 | Culture
A TRANS-RELIGIOUS CHRISTIANITY Benjamin Robinson | July 15, 2015 The cry for the deconstruction of the sacred-secular divide is undergirded by two very poignant observations. The first is that the divide between the sacred and the secular has had the effect of...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jul 13, 2015 | Culture
THE SACRED & THE SECULAR Benjamin Robinson | July 13, 2015 The term secular comes from the Latin saeculum, which means generation or age. It has been used in Christian literature to denote the world or the present age. That which is secular is distinguished...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jan 20, 2015 | Culture
In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrated the most disruptive series of protests this nation had ever seen. The events of the summer of ’63 culminated in the March on Washington where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech before a...
by Benjamin Robinson | Dec 1, 2014 | Culture
Last Friday I went to see Interstellar with a few of my family members. I had heard a lot of great buzz about the film and was excited to see it. The film was very exciting indeed! I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end, with all of the unexpected twists and...
