http://zionica.com Where Christianity intersects with politics, culture, and entertainment. Sat, 25 May 2013 09:55:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://zionica.com/2012/09/18/who-killed-the-liberal-arts/ http://zionica.com/2012/09/18/who-killed-the-liberal-arts/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:27:48 +0000 Zionica http://zionica.com/?p=21412

When asked what he thought about the cultural wars, Irving Kristol is said to have replied, “They’re over,” adding, “We lost.” If Kristol was correct, one of the decisive battles in that war may have been over the liberal arts in education, which we also lost. In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college…]]> http://zionica.com/2012/09/18/who-killed-the-liberal-arts/feed/ 1 http://zionica.com/2012/06/20/powerful-moments-in-open-air-inherit-the-wind/ http://zionica.com/2012/06/20/powerful-moments-in-open-air-inherit-the-wind/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:58:00 +0000 Zionica http://zionica.com/?p=20209

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's oft-produced 1955 courtroom drama, based on the famous Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925, was intended — like Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" — to use earlier events in American history as a frame for examining the 1950s "Red Scare" hysteria. But when polls show a clear majority of Americans reject…]]> http://zionica.com/2012/06/20/powerful-moments-in-open-air-inherit-the-wind/feed/ 8 http://zionica.com/2012/06/07/irrepressible-culture-wars-past-and-present/ http://zionica.com/2012/06/07/irrepressible-culture-wars-past-and-present/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:09:10 +0000 Zionica http://zionica.com/?p=20041

A new generation of evangelical elites is imploring evangelicals to step back from the culture wars. Mostly they want to escape polarizing strong stances on same-sex marriage and abortion, and perhaps also contentious church-state issues, like the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Purportedly the evangelical church is failing to reach young, upwardly mobile professionals because evangelicals, who…]]> http://zionica.com/2012/06/07/irrepressible-culture-wars-past-and-present/feed/ 21 http://zionica.com/2012/02/09/the-return-of-the-culture-wars/ http://zionica.com/2012/02/09/the-return-of-the-culture-wars/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:07:07 +0000 Zionica http://zionica.com/?p=18379

The resurgence of social and cultural issues in voters' minds poses new challenges for GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney as he reels from surprising losses Tuesday to conservative favorite Rick Santorum. The economy remains the No. 1 issue of concern for a majority of Americans. But the recent hoopla surrounding the Obama administration's support of…]]> http://zionica.com/2012/02/09/the-return-of-the-culture-wars/feed/ 12