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Archive for November, 2008
After saying that big is bad, one of the writers chiefly responsible for my opposition to all things large has to go and ruin my simple categories. This passage from Wendell Berry’s Life is a Miracle is to blame:
Freedom in both science and art probably depends upon enlarging the context of our work, increasing (rather than […]
Chris Haw writes a fantastic piece over at The Other Journal called The Christian and the iPhone: A Primer for Black Friday. I can only describe reading the article this way: Haw looked inside my brain, made sense of the mess, and miraculously managed to make it coherent. Here’s the opening:
I have managed thus far to resist […]
Big is bad, but small isn’t necessarily beautiful. It’s just that everywhere I look, I can’t see the end of what I’m seeing. Everything is too big and it should be smaller.
Perhaps the easiest place to make this case is in national electoral politics, which we in Canada recently sleepwalked through (a blessed brevity compared to […]
Three years of blogging are now behind me, which I suppose some would call an accomplishment. This blog hasn’t turned into a conversation hub, nor has it sputtered out and died like so many of my friends’ blogs have.
Not having a “following” has been very liberating. There are people who read this thing—some even do so […]
Mark Van Steenwyk has an interesting post up at Jesus Manifesto called The 25 Lessons of Nonviolence. I don’t agree with all of them (and Mark doesn’t necessarily either), but they are thought-provoking nonetheless.
A few of my favourites:
Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive […]
