- Gain some perspective on the sizes of things in the universe.
- Gain some perspective on the relative volumes of communications traffic.
- The Kindlings Muse has another great lecture from one of my (MF) personal heroes, Dr. Harold Best.
- Alan Jacobs ponders the disregard for complexity and truth on the Internet.
- Tracey Rowland on the reactions against “sacro-pop”
- James K.A. Smith suggests some new vocabularies for discussing the phenomenon of “Christian hipsters”
- Tony Jones agrees with William T. Cavanaugh that the eucharist is always a political act.
- NPR’s Intelligence Squared USA takes on the question of terrorism and enemy combatants in a refreshingly honest debate.
- Chris Heard opines briefly on Wikipedia and the glaring lack of students’ confidence in their own abilities to read Biblical texts.
- Are mime shows ever amusing? Nate Gilmour thinks this one is (just watch it in the little window; the compression makes it look horrible for full-screen):
Loved the K.A. Smith piece. I’d love to get your take on McCracken, Nathan.
If I got my hands on a copy, perhaps. That said, once James K.A. Smith has written a review of something, I’m usually hard pressed to come up with something important to say that he hasn’t already engaged. 🙂