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Does The Walking Dead Glorify Death?
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Does The Walking Dead Glorify Death?

Every time I mention The Walking Dead, I am hit with two or three people who try and rebuke me for watching a show that, in their words, “glorifies death and evil.” If you don’t believe me, just read the comments of this blog post. Those guys will be proving their inability to understand narrative...

Of Matt Walsh, Justice and Vengeance
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Of Matt Walsh, Justice and Vengeance

Recently Matt Walsh, a popular evangelical (and somehow very Roman Catholic) blogger posted a series of tweets condemning the death penalty as an excuse for vengeance. Death penalty isn’t needed in modern society. Therefore it exists purely for vengeance. That means I can’t support it ‘ Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 23, 2014 Vengeance. That’s an...

Dear Joshua:
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Dear Joshua:

Dear Joshua, You don’t know me. I don’t really know you. I recognize your blogger handle (RazorsKiss) from James White’s IRC channel. We may have interacted, we may have not, if we did it wasn’t memorable enough to care. I won’t be referring to you as RazorsKiss. We are grown men, who must be truly...

The Covenant at Life Below Zero
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The Covenant at Life Below Zero

The following is a re-post from a Crown Rights blog from several months ago. I thought it would be appropriate re-publish the blog on Gospel Spam seeing how the new season of Life Below Zero has just begun on NatGeo Channel. Also, click here to go to the original blogpost to see my interaction with...

An Early Review of Moms’ Night Out
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An Early Review of Moms’ Night Out

I’ve been known to have an upturned nose when it comes to Christian films. When talking about Christian films, I tend to default to Jay Sherman: I hated it. Let’s just face it. Christian films are terrible-mainly because Christian films are never really attempts to be films. Instead, they are usually overly-priced Gospel tracts. But...

Praise God for GMOs.
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Praise God for GMOs.

There is perhaps no more controversial topic within Christianity than that of food. They debated it in the early Church, and we continue to debate it now. Whether the topic is: “Should Christians should drink wine or beer”, or: “What defines gluttony?”, Christians love to debate the theology of food. Recently a lot of Christians...