Tag: society

• 5 Descriptions of What Makes a Great Tweet on Twitter

  This Actually is My 20,000th Tweet This post is actually going to mark my 20,000th tweet on Twitter since I joined back on November 1st, 2007. Over that period of 5 years I have tweeted approximately 10 times a day, from 3 different countries, on 3 different continents, posted approximately 1,000 original images, and 1,000…

  Scott Fillmer

  August 23, 2012

  Technology

  culture, experience, facebook, history, list, networking, research, Social media, Social network, social networking, society, time, tweets, twitter

• There is no Frigate Like a Book from the Pen of Emily Dickinson

  The more I try to learn and understand how prose and poetry works, the more I realize that I can’t recapture the the years of ignoring virtually all literature from my childhood. It’s like starting in grade school again and working your way up, only now you don’t have time to do so because of…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 16, 2012

  Life

  21st century, 22nd century, art, book, church, culture, Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, learning, Lenard Sweet, Literature, Online Writing, poem, poetry, prose, prose and poetry, religic, Shakespeare, short poems, society, spiritual world, the church, viral, William Shakespeare, word, words, world, world culture, writing, written word

• Do We Publish Anything With Meaning and Longevity Today?

  How much do we write that has meaning and longevity today? While we aren’t, and can’t, all be Mark Zuckerberg (see Mark Zuckerberg and the Biblical Meaning of Success), it got me thinking about the value (and noise) we add when it comes to our photos, videos, and  our writing today. Much like photography when…

  Scott Fillmer

  May 23, 2012

  Technology

  15th century, 16th century, 17th century, 21st century, bible, blog, blogging, camera boom, century, culture, edwards center, facebook, Flickr, Instagram, jonathan edwards, Mark Zuckerberg, meaning, meaning of success, photos, pontificating, post-modern, Priscilla Chan, publishing, self publish, self publishing, social, social networking, society, Technology, twitter, university, video posting, video uploads, wipf, wordpress, writing, yale, youtube, zuck

• Searching Out the Reasons for Writing Religitic

  This is my first actual post on this blog, so titled Religitic, in a while. The title I chose years and years ago for the life we Christians sometimes lead, one that is partly spiritual, partly heretical, and often mostly hypocritical. Therefore, I combined heretic, and hypocrite, with religion and got Religitic. The walk of…

  Scott Fillmer

  May 19, 2012

  Life

  blog, christian, christianity, Daily devotional, Heresy, Hypocrisy, jesus, Jesus Christ, politics, Profanity, religic, religion, Religion and Spirituality, searching, society, spirituality, Writer Resources, writing

• Is True Christianity Represented on CNN, Discovery, and History Channel?

  Can we really know the true meaning of Christianity today? The answer of course, is an emphatic yes, of course we can, but the answer always seems to change depending on who you ask. Our culture is filled with blogs and news articles like the CNN “Belief Blog” and the Washington Post “On Faith” section, which…

  Scott Fillmer

  April 13, 2012

  Faith

  apologetics, belief, blog, blogging, channel, christian, christianity, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, CNN, comparing, comparison, culture, discovery, Discovery Channel, discovery channel series, doctrine, Epistle to the Romans, false, for profit, god, history, history channel, jesus, john, John 13, John 13:35, learn, linus, luke, Media, mormon, mormon doctrine, mormonism, news, news media, pc, peanuts, politically correct, production, profit, reading, religion, romans, Romans 10, Romans 10:9, scripture, shows, shroud of turin, society, Television

• Sunday with The World State by G K Chesterton :: Poem

  I think it has literally taken me a few years to adjust to Sunday being a work day, and I have grown to absolutely love late Sunday afternoons after all the services and meetings are over. It’s one of those few times during the week I get (usually) a few quiet uninterrupted hours to spend…

  Scott Fillmer

  August 14, 2011

  Life

  Arts, british, Chesterton, Christian Poetry, culture, england, english, france, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, humanity, international, margin, Online Writing, poem, poems, poetry, praise, sacrifice, society, world, World State

• Cultural Priorities and the Breakneck Speed of the West

  I love this shot of Jason, Eddie (our driver in Uganda), and myself. If you are holding a machete in the middle of the woods-jungle I think it’s a rule, you have to stop to have a photo taken. Jason and I were attempting to clear a few branches away for a lady who lived…

  Scott Fillmer

  August 11, 2011

  Faith

  africa, buloba, culture, excess, god, government, Gulu, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, kampala, Life, margin, potd, society, speed, tia, uganda, work

• Don’t Worry the Revival is Canceled on Church Signs of the Week

  It’s Friday, and since we didn’t go anywhere exciting today other than to drive over to Columbus, my Friday Feet pic is rather boring, but there were some “great” church signs along the way as usual. I have a pretty additive habit-hobby of church sign reading, sometimes it’s just like train wreck TV, you just…

  Scott Fillmer

  May 20, 2011

  Faith

  alabama, christian, Christian Church, christianity, church, church signs, culture, dumb, friday feet, god, hyw80, Life, Local Churches, rural, society, Television, united states

• What Does the Church Look Like in 2012?

  One of the things I love about our particular church is that we are always talking about reaching the unreached… reaching deeper into the community of Auburn and Opelika trying to find ways to bring the Gospel to those who haven’t heard the Good News (a command throughout the New Testament I might add). One…

  Scott Fillmer

  March 30, 2011

  Faith

  1 corinthians, auburn, christ, church, community, consume, consumerism, culture, god, Good News, gospel, Jesu, John Piper, Lord, new testament, romans, soak, society, status quo

• Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

  After months of looking at “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream” by David Platt, i finally decided i had to go ahead and read this book. Having read and studied several books and/or articles that discuss the concepts and failings of what we call the “American Dream”, I already had my own…

  Scott Fillmer

  March 21, 2011

  Faith

  american dream, book review, books, calling, church, culture, gospel, Life, missions, pop-culture, review, society, the church, the walk, to go

• A Look at the Correspondence Theory of Truth

  After recent comments on my blog lately I once again was reminded how so many people in this world are actually seeking a reality of their own making, not the real truths that are actually real. This post-modern time we live in lends itself more and more to an absolute void of real objective truth…

  Scott Fillmer

  October 29, 2010

  Faith

  apologetics, bible, biblical, Correspondence Theory of Truth, culture, facts, George Shannon, god, jesus, lbts, Objectivity, only, Philosophy, pluralism, relativism, scripture, society, theory

• Reflections on Religious Pluralism in our Culture

  Truth is something that is a main theme around my blog and encompasses much of what I write about as well. Truth, or lack of it, can take many forms and many arguments, but there is an ultimate truth, or deception of the ultimate truth prevailing in our society today about salvation. This ultimately goes…

  Scott Fillmer

  August 25, 2010

  Faith

  apologetics, christ, culture, exclusivism, Fort Worth Star Telegram, god, hell, inclusivism, islam, jesus, Jesus Christ, John Hick, lbts, pluralism, religion, Religious pluralism, salvation, society, world religions

• Reasons Why Apologetics is Important in Ministry Today

  In this particular article I was asked to choose the three most important reasons for including apologetics in my own personal ministry.  The answer is the following post.  Originally published on May 13, 2009 and republished for this blog on June 4, 2010. Although it is very important to understand the differences between religions like…

  Scott Fillmer

  June 4, 2010

  Faith

  Apologetic, apologetics, christ, christian, christianity, coexist, culture, disciple, discipleship, god, jesus, lbts, list, lists, ministry, pluralism, reasons, relativism, religion & spirituality, seminary, society, top reasons

• I Can’t Afford a Kindle, iPad, or eBook Reader?

  I love this excuse for not having a Kindle or some type of eBook reader at this point. A better excuse would be that “I don’t want an eBook reader”, that would at least make a more intelligent argument, at least for those of us who live in the United States. The price of a…

  Scott Fillmer

  April 19, 2010

  Technology

  android, consumer, culture, ebook, electronics, ipad, iphone, kindle, Literature, reader, society

• 3 Monastic Principles of Pachomius for Today

  The pursuit of the monastic lifestyle was something that was key to Christianity, and is something that is still relevant to our day and culture. These monks originally started out as hermits who sought the solitude of a cave or the desert in order to have a closer relationship with God but to also remove…

  Scott Fillmer

  July 29, 2009

  Faith

  culture, early church, lbts, Life, monastic, principles, school, seminary, simple, society

• Why Jim Morrison and the Bible are Still Consumed

  I love the music that comes from the mid to late 1960’s to mid 1970’s in the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and many more.  It was at the very height of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and a time of great growth and pain in…

  Scott Fillmer

  February 23, 2009

  Faith

  bible, culture, Doors, history, ipod, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Martin Luther King, Morrison, music, Peace Frog, poetry, quality, society, the doors, Vietnam War