To me, someone who frequently gets lost, those GPS navigation systems are a greater technology than the internet. I am amazed not only at the satellite positioning and the computerized maps, but at how the directions are articulated vocally. Our portable system lets us pick
Well, do you have it? Can you hardly wait for the Olympics to get going this weekend? Will you be following? Or are you having a bad feeling about this?
Consider this document: A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future (AEF Call). So is this what being “post evangelical” is all about? Is this something a Lutheran could sign?
From Solzhenitsyn’s commencement address at Harvard that so enraged students and faculty: Western society has given itself the organization best suited to its purposes, based, I would say, on the letter of the law. . . . Any conflict is solved according to the letter
Speaking of Solzhenitsyn. . . .At the Circe conference, Barbara Elliott spoke about the role of writers in bringing down Soviet Communism, something she documents in her book Candles Behind the Wall. Though Writers and Artist Unions could give creative folks a good, prestigious living
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at 89. The literary giant, a Christian, did much to overthrow Soviet Communism through his novels and his nonfictional exposes of the gulag, which Sozhenitsyn had experienced first hand. He demonstrates how the pen really can be more powerful than the
You know that assertion that any given person is six degrees of separation away from any other person in the world (that usually being Kevin Bacon)? That is to say, you know someone whose circle of acquaintances includes someone whose circle of acquaintances includes [repeat
To continue our discussion on different expressions of church that people are exploring today, what about Celtic Christianity? Many “post evangelical” Christians are experimenting with various elements of Celtic spirituality. I know a Baptist whose church, she says, uses a “Celtic liturgy.” I don’t know
The help we give to the Republicans we will also offer to the Democrats. Who should Barack Obama choose for his running mate? Is there a Vice-Presidential choice that would make you MORE open to Obama? (Michael Gerson makes the case for the ex-missionary pro-life
Carl Vehse proposes that we talk about who John McCain should select for Vice President, going so far as to promote a candidate: Let’s talk about McCain and who he might chose for his VP. The Daily Time Herald in Carroll, IA, has one suggestion
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