BRANSON PARLER
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Think Christian columns

I write regularly for Think Christian, "a collaborative digital magazine that recognizes contemporary culture--from politics to the arts, from business to science--as falling beneath God's sovereignty. We engage this God-owned, human-driven world by discussing what it means to live as a Christian within it." You can link to past columns that I've written here. 
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Stephen Colbert's Witness
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Jim Carrey and the Need for Living Color
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The Fairy-Tale Gospel of Tolkien's Beren and Luthien
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Hearing Romans 7 in Kendrick Lamar's DAMN
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What Transhumanism Misunderstands about Being Human
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How Should Christians Navigate the Gender Revolution?
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If Trump Does 'Destroy' the Johnson Amendment, Churches Won't Benefit
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Marriage: The Christian Version of "Yes Means Yes"
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How Christian Intellectuals Can Get Their Groove Back
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White parents and Black Lives Matter
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Should legal marijuana be met with theology or fear?
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A deeper dive into Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia
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Are churches willing to have the gay conversation?
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The Importance of Being Human
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Watching Survivor during Lent
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The continued shame of college sports
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Advent and lament
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How Christians can lead the way on maternity leave
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Duke students, trigger warnings, and cultural engagement
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Sharing the good news amidst Tinder's 'dating apocalypse'
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Humbled by Pluto
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A New Way to Marry
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How science and reason created an age of unbelief--in science and reason
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How marriage can still "work"
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Is it a good thing that Jon Stewart's minions are multiplying?
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Rob Bell and Oprah aside, marriage wasn't designed to solve loneliness
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The problem with Obama's Crusades comments
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Why I'm not surprised Ryan Bell turned atheist after his year without God
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For Christians, there is no torture debate
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Egg freezing and the facts of life
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Christmastime's generic call to "believe"
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Brittany Maynard and 9/11 jumpers: an analogy that doesn't work
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Obama, Phil Robertson and how we talk about the militants of ISIS
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Is civilization natural? A Christian answer
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Jim Gaffigan and the food purity movement
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Free-range kids and resurrection parenting
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Botched executions and the blood of Christ
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Actually, guns do kill people
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Christian hospitality and the sharing economy
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Pre-game prayers: worship, witness, or showing off?
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The fall of Fallujah and the city of God
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Snowplows, politics, and Christian persistence
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We're no longer number one! We're no longer number one!
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Cohabitation, 'conscious uncoupling,' and Christian marriage
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Detroit's urban forest and giving way to the garden
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Why contraception matters, even for Protestants
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The horror of war & the comfort of hell
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How the Cosmos reboot allows for religion
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Why your friends' marriage is your business
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Letting go of Jahi McMath
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Duck Dynasty and the Gospel of Entertainment
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Amazon and delivering on the Lord's Day
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I'm NOT dreaming of a white Jesus
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St. Augustine on breastfeeding
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Four views on James Brownson's Bible, Gender, Sexuality
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Why not having kids is more than a lifestyle choice
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What Britain's impending porn ban won't do
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Is atheism a religion? Not nearly as much as the Super Bowl
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A Christian Case for Atheist Chaplains
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Louie Giglio, Obama's inauguration, and playing the persecution card
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Believing in baseball (and Easter)
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Jim Halpert's model of male headship
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Why I'm not voting
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ESPN's surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality
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The weakness of the Pentagon and the power of the cross
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Action, orientation, and sexuality
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Why Obama is like Bush (and both are like Pilate)
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Human extinction and Christian eschatology
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Why eating at Chick-fil-A isn't the same as taking communion
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Who cares if Denzel Washington is a Christian?
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Why we shouldn't be so quick to set sail with Rob Bell
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Medical marijuana and a theology of pot

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