2012-07-29T07:09:21-05:00

I’m making a radical shift in my reading, but I’m announcing it because I have my doubts that I can sustain the shift. I may need some help. You may need to sit down. This is big. Readers of the Jesus Creed blog know by now that I’m horrible at reading novels. I try to read two a year — during the summer, E. Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and in December, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I... Read more

2012-07-29T10:15:49-05:00

From Maria Papova: In an age obsessed with practicality, productivity, and efficiency, I frequently worry that we are leaving little room for abstract knowledge and for the kind of curiosity that invites just enough serendipity to allow for the discovery of ideas we didn’t know we were interested in until we are, ideas that we may later transform into new combinations with applications both practical and metaphysical…. This lament, alas, is timelier than ever. As Columbia biological sciences professor Stuart... Read more

2012-07-29T10:12:00-05:00

From Joe Romm: With the added bit to this story that these are reports from those who have been skeptical of human-caused global warming trends. “The decadal land-surface average temperature using a 10-year moving average of surface temperatures over land. Anomalies are relative to the Jan 1950 – December 1979 mean. The grey band indicates 95% statistical and spatial uncertainty interval.” A Koch-funded reanalysis of 1.6 billion temperature reports finds that “essentially all of this increase results from the human... Read more

2012-07-30T06:22:03-05:00

Wanting God to Exist is More Important Than Believing in God Jeff Cook, details at the bottom of the post, always offers here a set of ideas worth considering. Many of you know that I find Jeff’s voice not only important but insightful — stubbornly thoughtful as I see him — and a voice that I believe will prevail with many in the decades ahead. I love this post. Have you ever tried to convince a friend to quit smoking,... Read more

2012-07-26T19:34:55-05:00

What does it take to resist habituation? Pointed question: Who has more time for leisure in your home? Male or female? This post is from CBE: Susan Howell, Ed.D. is professor of Psychology at Campbellsville University, where she teaches classes in gender, development, and the integration of psychology with faith. Susan has written for CBE publications, professional journals, and several devotional magazines. *     *     *     *     * I sat in a sociology... Read more

2012-07-29T14:36:40-05:00

Have you ever flown Lut’ran Airlines? Read more

2012-07-29T17:47:36-05:00

From CNN: Most of the pundits have concluded that the main cause of this calamity is the dark, strange behavior of the gunman. Talking about anything else, they say, is silly. The New York Times’ usually extremely wise columnist, David Brooks,explains that this is a problem of psychology, not sociology. At one level, this makes sense, of course, as the proximate cause. But really, it’s questionable analysis. Think about this: are there more lonely people in America compared with other countries? Are... Read more

2012-07-29T16:57:34-05:00

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2012-07-27T11:05:02-05:00

Here’s the cover to the update of Embracing Grace:   Read more

2012-07-29T13:04:57-05:00

The Syrian monastery, Deir Mar Musa, has been affected by the Syrian violence. BOB ABERNETHY: The spiraling violence in Syria has affected all areas of life, including religious life.  The Syrian desert monastery Deir Mar Musa, north of Damascus, was once a center of pilgrimage and interfaith dialogue.  But the Catholic priest who leads the monastery was expelled from Syria last month, and the future of his ministry is uncertain.  Fred de Sam Lazaro visited before the violence exploded and... Read more

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