Matt Wiebe’s blog about faith and life.
Writing a retrospective to reflect on the past year, followed by a prospective to look forward to the coming year has become something of a tradition for me on this blog. Here, in no particular order, are some significant things from the past year:
I began to study the postmodern turn in philosophy much more in depth. […]
I would have been very surprised indeed to find myself recommending a Microsoft product, but I must say that they’ve done a fine job with Windows Live Writer. It’s a desktop blogging application that works with most popular blog providers, including WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type and Windows Live Spaces.
One of the biggest problems with […]
Since it’s the holidays, I have and will be spending time in airports. I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed that an awful lot of the people working in airport restaurants and kiosks are immigrants who, for the most part, do their jobs diligently. I started to ask myself why these jobs should be […]
There’s lots of talk floating about about consumerism being a great evil that needs to be subverted and overthrown. What there is much less of is intelligent discussion of what consumerism actually is, and particularly what it is that drives it and sustains it. In that vein, I’m reading The Rebel Sell (which is now […]
For everyone who hasn’t heard, there was recently a shooter who went on a killing spree at a YWAM base and then later at a church in Colorado. A church member who had a gun took the shooter down and is being called a hero by many, including her pastor. As someone who holds that […]
I’m probably not going to be posting very frequently over the next couple of weeks as I’m back home in Winnipeg over the Christmas holidays.
Here’s something to entertain you in the meantime. You’ll laugh until it hurts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ
