Yes, you read the title correctly. I’ve followed a fairly typical trajectory of being brought up with “I’m a lowly worm” theology towards an understanding of humans as essentially good, if marred by by sin. I was always under the impression that this was the “right” trajectory, but I’m having second thoughts, partly due to […]
Archive for July, 2008
Here’s a video from Taylor Mali, responding to the query of “what do teachers make?” It’s a brilliant rebuttal to a world of crass materialism where success is measured by your pay stub rather than by who you are.
(HT: Robbymac)
William T. Cavanaugh’s seminal 1995 essay “A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State” seeks to dismantle the myth of the modern secular state as the peacemaker who stepped onto the scene a few hundred years ago to quell religious violence. Instead, Cavanaugh argues, the […]
After my previous post on Christianity Today’s article God is Not Dead Yet, Nathan Schneider asked me in a comment to have a look at the review he did. I also later saw John Stackhouse respond on his blog, which I thought also warranted comment.
First up, I look at Schneider’s fairly lengthy and informed review. He […]
Once upon a time (almost a year ago), in a land far, far away (St. Stephen, NB), my friend Dan started talking to me about designing him a new look for his WordPress blog. After many battles with the evil NotEnoughTime and the scourge of BackBurner, we at last prevailed.
If my strange little story hasn’t made […]
If you are creative/psychotic enough to have imagined fonts as people before, you will find this amusing. Sane people: move along, nothing to see here.
