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Lately a number of conversations around the God-bl0g-o-sphere have caught my attention, and all of them seem to take their impetus from the notion that theologians in the twenty-first century…

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…

  “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…

There’s a game Christian intellectuals sometimes play regarding ancient philosophers. “If he had lived 400 years later,” the question goes, “would Plato (or Aristotle, or Euripides, or Cicero, or Confucius,…

Alright, folks.  I said we should have one, so I’ve written one!  Since our readership is more given to the oldies and the goodies than the latest and greatest, here…

Going Victorian and Getting Medieval (H/T Chris Armstrong) While Emergent continues wax liberal, Missional issues a conservative manifesto. A defense of academic specialization in the humanities One more take on…

What does the devil look like? A message to parents: lighten up, enjoy life, and fire up that in-car DVD player! (link posted and labeled by Gilmour) On the bad…

Adorno, Bordieu, and the iPod. Philosophy-of-technology geeks unite! How America can take John Winthrop’s most famous Biblical allusion more seriously The spooky and insidious implications of treating reality like a…

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame makes his case against the liberal arts in favor of entrepreneurship training Matthew Stewart makes his case for the liberal arts, especially for those who…