Reflections on the True, the Good and the Beautiful
A culture blog is the last place you want to talk politics (despite the role it plays in American culture), not to mention a culture and theology blog (despite the role theology plays in American politics). Nevertheless, did you read David Stockman’s critique Wisconsin Congressman and Vice-Presidential hopeful Paul Ryan’s budget plan? Stockman labeled Ryan’s plan [...]
Jim Holt’s new book, “Why Does the World Exist?, tackles the most basic question we humans could ever contemplate: why is their something instead of nothing? It’s the most perplexing challenge for philosophers and scientists alike (“We are at least five Einsteins away from answering that question.”). For Christians, the perplexity provides ironic comfort. The best answer [...]
We have been periodically watching the Olympics over the last week. I particularly like watching beach volleyball. I am a beach aficionado but not nearly in the same ways as these amazing athletes. The sand is apparently 18 inches deep at the venue at the Horse Guard Parade in London. Oh, what joy to plant [...]
Okay…..I’m picking up a theme that a couple of my blogging colleagues did on “summer reading.” And in light of the recent passing of Gore Vidal, I’ll talk about some of my favorite novel reading over the summer. On the news last night, an old interview was shown where Vidal was mourning the loss of [...]
The New Yorker ran a disturbing piece recently on mosquitoes, apropos to a midsummer post when swatting the pests makes one wistful for snowfall. According to the article, researchers estimate that mosquitoes have been responsible for half the deaths in human history: malaria, yellow fever, dengue, chikungaya, West Nile—just to name a few. Valiant efforts have been [...]
“100 Days to Go” was one of the main articles in the Sunday edition of the Cleveland paper, The Plain Dealer. 100 days to go before the November election, which those of us fortunate enough to live in the swing state of Ohio are reminded of about a b’zillion times each time the TV is [...]
Something has exploded on the blogosphere — and I have a feeling it’s only getting started. Jonathan Merritt, a young, up-and-coming Christian author and online columnist (and son of a prominent SBC pastor / former SBC president), has been “outed.” After publishing a column in which he declared his intention to continue to patronize Chic-fil-A [...]
Here we go again. Another shooting and the very low expectation that we will have serious conversations about the role which guns have in our culture. The “talking heads” on the various news programs acknowledge that this recent event of the shootings at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, will unlikely produce any substantive conversation [...]
Today’s post is by guest blogger Tim Conder. Tim is the founding pastor of Emmaus Way in Durham, NC and a PhD candidate in “Culture, Curriculum, and Change” at the University of North Carolina. He serves as a board member at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He is also the author of two [...]
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