It’s easy to dismiss iPads as luxury gadgets for checking Facebook, watching Netflix, and playing Candy Crush. But as one Los Angeles educator has discovered, iPads are a huge help when teaching special education students with mental and physical disabilities. As a geek, I love this story because it’s a perfect example of technology making a positive impact in the lives of previously disadvantaged individuals. Read more
Guest contributor, Ryan Masters, considers why college football is so well known for corruption, and why we continue to get so up in arms about it. Read more
"What can we do, in our little corners of the world, to aid in the fight to end world hunger?" Read more
One of my favorite living fantasy writers is Neil Gaiman, creator of Sandman, Coraline, Neverwhere, American Gods, and countless others. His work crosses all types of media. In a recent speech now posted on The Guardian, he discusses the power of books, and also of the libraries that house them. Read more
The Time Lord needs timeless tunes, and series composer Murray Gold obliges with creative and cinematic bombast. Read more
"It's tempting to think of our physical state as secondary to our spiritual state, but the reality is that these things are tied together and inseparable." Read more
Even Jonathan “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards gets more love than Cotton Mather, the third-generation American Puritan pastor and theologian often blamed for the Salem Witch Trials. Earlier this year, Christ and Pop Culture brought out some thoughtful words from his father, Increase. Now, 350 after Cotton Mather was born, Agnes Howard at Patheos Evangelical’s Anxious Bench brings us a healthy reminder of his complexity (and his wig). Read more
In a recent post at the Reformed African American Network, Anthony Bradley addresses what he calls “a pervasive misunderstanding” of diversity: its presence doesn’t automatically help blacks flourish, and its lack doesn’t automatically harm minorities. Discrimination and inequality are the problem, not necessarily segregation. “Race,” he writes, “is not nearly as helpful of a category as progressives want us to believe in our efforts to evaluate what constitutes flourishing.” Read more
A musician I am not, but if you break out the cello, I can scarcely breathe for the beauty of it. Obviously, cellist Yo-Yo Ma is a favorite. So this NPR article—“A Yo-Yo Ma Project Brings Together Musicians from Warring Nations”—caught my eye. Its author, Elizabeth Segran, details Ma’s vision for music as the basis for intercultural understanding through his Silk Road Ensemble organization: “Bringing together the Galician bagpipe, the Chinese pipa, the Japanese shakuhachi, the Persian kamancheh, the Indian... Read more
"While Christians ought to remember that their lives participate in the grand "novel" of redemption, a story larger than we can typically see, we also need to know that this is lived out in the everyday short stories." Read more
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