Here’s a quote from Harry Lee Poe’s Christianity in the Academy:
The philosophy of postmodernism is not simply a philosophical issue. It is also a sociological and a psychological issue, and it has implications for anthropology, economics, marketing, language study, political science, and education. The rejection of ideology and authority is not a characteristic of a culture […]
Archive for March, 2007
Watch me dance and do tricks!
I feel this odd pressure to put all kinds of brilliance out there, since I’m getting all of this traffic on account of Br. Maynard’s link-love meme that I wound up in.
Don’t get me wrong, I write this blog partly because I hope that some people find something helpful, challenging or inspiring […]
Article: Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic - New York Times
In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages […]
Brother Maynard has started a meme to post links to under-read and -appreciated emerging/missional church bloggers. Somehow I wound up on the list, who knew?
Here’s how you can play: pick a few missionally-minded bloggers that don’t get a lot of attention in the blogosphere (say, under 150 links on technorati’s emerging church list) and add them […]
Or at least, so says Charles Habib Malik in his “A Christian Critique of the University.” He says:
There is the tremendous problem of whether there is essential incompatibility between reason and faith, between knowledge and virtue, between scholarship and the sense of mystery. On the face of it there seems to be such incompatibility. Can we […]
And he told me that I’m right about everything.
Joking aside, this seems to be an ongoing problem in today’s (Western) church. We seem to be deeply uncomfortable with this notion that God can speak to people; that he might speak to me or someone I know. I was pondering why this might be and came up […]
