Programming as a Liberal Art: A Review of Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff 154 pp. Soft Skull Press. $14.95 To explain how I came across this book, I have to…
History, Prophecy, Mystery, Name: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 28 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 28 August 2011 (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 3:1-15 and Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b • Jeremiah 15:15-21 and Psalm 26:1-8 • Romans 12:9-21 • Matthew 16:21-28…
Negative Dia-link-tics
The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…) James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic…
Feminism, Positivism, and Which One Excludes
“Why Be Religious?” at Feministe Recently Victoria (who’s married to one of the better Christian Humanists) sent me the link above, noting that reading the post and the following…
The perfect age…
Happy Birthday to CHP guest host and little brother Ryan Gilmour today! He’s reached the age that Thomas Aquinas regarded as perfect.
One Reality, Not Two: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 21 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 August 2011 (Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 1:8-2:10 and Psalm 124 • Isaiah 51:1-6 and Psalm 138 • Romans 12:1-8 • Matthew 16:13-20 I hate to admit it, but as much as…
Linkle, Linkle, Little Star
The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…
So I finally read Francis Schaeffer…
I don’t keep count of how many times people recommend books to me (I never have the presence of mind to start the count on the first instance, and three…
A Theophany and a Revolution: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 7 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 7 August 2011 (8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 and Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b • 1 Kings 19:9-18 and Psalm 85:8-13 • Romans…
The Complicated Fall of Post-Charismatic Evangelicalism: A Review of Quitting Church by Julia Duin
Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and Waht to Do About it by Julia Duin 180 pp. Baker Academic, $12.99 What makes books by journalists so fun is that,…
The Rhetoric of Repentance: A Review of Telling God's Story
Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation by John W. Wright 164 pp. $19.00 IVP Academic I actually became aware of this book while reading Stan Hauerwas’s Working with…
Wisdom is Grace: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 24 July 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 24 July 2011 (th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 29:15-28 and Psalm 105:1-11, 45b or Psalm 128 • 1 Kings 3:5-12 and Psalm 119:129-136 • Romans…
Gnar-link, dude.
Tripp Fuller cites some Barth, this time on purpose! I think he’s turning to our side! Why Bill Cosby is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of storytelling An entirely sensible proposal to…
No Instruction Manual: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 17 July 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 17 July 2011 (Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Genesis 28:10-19a and Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 •Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44:6-8 and Psalm…
Everything but the Kitchen Link
The aesthetics of teaching literature at a Christian college How think tanks are making journalism harder than it already is The rise in Spinoza’s stock value Social psychology and why…