From my current reading:
…community cannot form in the absence of communal space, without places for people to get together to talk. Just as it is difficult to imagine the concept of family independent of the home, it is near-impossible to imagine community independent of the town square or the local pub. Christopher Lasch has observed that […]
Archive for November, 2007
Be prepared for some silliness (and hopefully brief outbreaks of serious) this Christmas as Philip Pullman’s children’s series “His Dark Materials” appears in theatres.
The Golden Compass is the title of the first installment of Pullman’s trilogy and it surrounds a precocious young girl named Lyra who does battle with the evil authorities of her world. A […]
There’s a new blog called The Immanent Frame featuring some heavyweight scholars talking about “secularism, religion and the public sphere.” They are kicking things off by talking about Charles Taylor’s new book “A Secular Age” (including a post by Taylor himself) which examines the origins of secularism and discusses how secularism has never meant the […]
Here’s a great bit from William Willimon, preacher extraordinaire. Read and follow the link at the end for more!
Sometimes in leaning over to speak to the modern world, I fear that we may have fallen in! When, in our sermons, we sought to use our sermons to build a bridge from the old world of the […]
So I get a letter from Canada student loans today. I sigh, try to decide whether or not to open it (they’re usually just telling me about the next paperwork hoop to jump through, or reminding me of how in debt I am), and then receive a pleasant surprise: I just received a Canada Millennium […]
Cell phones have quickly become ubiquitous features of life in North America, producing no end of convenience and annoyance. As seems to be the case with most technology, we as a culture don’t know how to master our public cell phone use and are instead find ourselves mastered.
So, when I read this story, I was intrigued. […]
