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The Power and the Glamour
Searching for Beauty amid Hollywood's beautiful people.
Should Christians Pursue External Beauty?
A controversial Psychology Today article arguing that black women are less attractive than others got me thinking about real beauty.
The Gods of the Checkout Aisle
Understanding the parareligion of celebrity culture. A review of 'Gods Behaving Badly.'
Obese and Beautiful
As the West exports its fat stigma to developing countries, the church might export its welcome embrace to those on all ends of the body mass index.
The No-Makeup Spiritual Discipline
Why going out in public without mascara and blush is an act of Christian discipleship (for me, anyway).
Miss America and the Bikini Question
Do modern-day pageants ask young evangelical women to compromise their values an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny too much?
Stay Young! Live Longer!
That's not just a silly promise of our culture.
Chasing Methuselah
Exercise, technology, and diet help us live longer than ever. Should those who look to eternal life care?
Christ of the Klingons
A physicist and a philosopher envision God's design in the beautiful equations of string theory.
The Art of Glory
Cape Cod's newly completed Church of the Transfiguration embodies the belief that beauty can nurture our communion with God.
A Theology of Jiggly Thighs
What a graying supermodel can teach Jesus' female followers.
Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, and Jesus
In 'Unsqueezed', Margot Starbuck explores what shopping and eating to the glory of God looks like.
A Bikinied Muslim Miss USA
The backlash to Rima Fakih's win suggests mainstream America still wants their national beauties to be Christian.
The Mission of Art
W. David O. Taylor grounds his aesthetic passion in the local church.
Art That Reveals Our Need for Grace
Physically disabled photographers surprising work reveals to viewer their own limitations.
Cosmetic Surgery to the Glory of God?
Christians can't dismiss such surgery until they seriously consider our God-given desire for beauty.
Is Cosmetic Surgery Immoral?
Even more importantly: Why do you want to know?
Lead in Your Lipstick, Carcinogens in Your Hair Color
Most of the personal care products you use every day are damaging your health, argues Samuel Epstein in 'Toxic Beauty'.
Female Olympians, Missing in Action
When it comes to female athletes, why does the media have a one-track mind?
Botox: A Threat to Our National Security
How our cultural fear of aging and dying is giving some terrorists a financial boost.

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