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The Biggest “Force Awakens” Spoiler EVER

by Barry Cooper on Dec 15, 2015Dec 24, 2015

Yes, I’m a Star Wars fan. Maybe not JJ Abrams level, “dressing as an Ewok for Halloween” type fan, but still.

D. A. Carson on “The god of Open Options”

by Barry Cooper on Aug 12, 2014Nov 4, 2014

At The Gospel Coalition’s recent National Women’s Conference, Don Carson picked up on an article of mine about “The god of Open Options“, originally published in Christianity Today under the title “Imprisoned By Choice”.

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The god of Open Options

by Barry Cooper on Jun 11, 2014Aug 12, 2014

Are you worshipping the god of Open Options?

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Prometheus

by Barry Cooper on Jun 8, 2012Jun 17, 2014

Prometheus is a film about parental neglect and abuse – on a cosmic scale. Could it be that the Father Ridley Scott longs for is closer than he thinks?

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Christopher Hitchens’ Last Request

by Barry Cooper on Dec 21, 2011Jun 17, 2014

There was something about Christopher Hitchens that Christians liked.

Why Christ May Not Be Not Enough For You

by Barry Cooper on Jul 7, 2011Jun 17, 2014

I’ve been reading Edward T. Welch’s When People Are Big And God Is Small. In it, he says this: We know that we are created to live in relationship with other people, and in these relationships we are to love, encourage, and comfort each other, but is the purpose of these relationships to bolster our self-esteem?

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Future Imperfect: Will Heaven Be Intolerable?

by Barry Cooper on Apr 6, 2011Jun 17, 2014

Christopher Hitchens is battling stage 4 cancer. “And the thing to note about stage 4,” he observes dryly in a recent interview, “is that there is no stage 5.” As a passionate atheist, he doesn’t believe in an afterlife. Which makes the prospect of death all the more frightening to him:

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Russell Brand Meets Jonathan Edwards

by Barry Cooper on Mar 22, 2011Jun 17, 2014

Today in 1758, Jonathan Edwards died. Not many books have caused me to sob audibly, and even fewer while reading in a public library, but Edwards’ Images or Shadows of Divine Things is just such a book.

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Decisions Without Televisions

by Barry Cooper on Feb 23, 2011Jun 17, 2014

“Let me hear you make decisions / Without your television, / Let me hear you speaking just for me.” The line is from Depeche Mode’s Stripped, and I’m surprised it doesn’t turn up more often in manuals for effective preaching.

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The Last Awards Ceremony

by Barry Cooper on Jan 21, 2011Jun 17, 2014

“Mean spirited”. That’s how Tom Hanks and Robert Downey-Junior described the presenting style of Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes last Sunday.

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