If Barna hadn't paired us up with those crunchy leftists in Asheville, we would have been number 1, I know it! Check out the full list of Bible-Minded Cities. Looking at the obvious trends on the list reminds me of a book I heard about on NPR, The Big Sort: Why the...
Culture
Weekly Standard on Christian Thinker/Journalist Ken Myers
[Ken Myers] has big plans for the next few years, with a particular attention to music. He’s planning a series of podcasts on the standard classical repertoire—one piece per podcast—and another on sacred choral music, which he’s pursuing with a special ardor. “I...
Favoritism Is Good? Fish!!
Does anyone even read my Stanley Fish links? Anyone? Earth to anyone! Because now Fish has taken a long enough break from revealing everyone else's presuppositions to reveal one of his own, and I think that's pretty interesting. Have a listen. [The liberal notion of...
Alain de Botton
However, anyone who has experienced the power of sex in general and internet pornography in particular to reroute our priorities is unlikely to be so sanguine about liberty. Pornography, like alcohol and drugs, weakens our ability to endure the kinds of suffering that...
I’ve Always Thought the Same About Nick Kristof
Check out Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner on the fair-minded liberal Nick Kristof, and don't miss this special quote from some other guy at the end: People have often said that politics has been the religion of the 20th century, and I think there’s a lot to that. In...
Neil Postman on the Story That We Need
In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all...
Top 50 Biblioblogs for November 2012
I just checked out again the Biblioblog top 50—the 50 biblical studies-related blogs that had the most hits in the past month. That includes a pretty big bunch of blogs, nearly 600 from across the theological (and even atheistical) spectrum. So why are there...
Review: A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts
A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts by Dwight Gustafson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Dr. Gustafson's choral (and other) compositions. I've sung them in German in Germany and in Polish in Poland. I've sung under Dr. Gus' baton as the great...
The New Media
Facebook, Twitter, and Google ... have inadvertently created an electorate able, should it choose—and apparently it does—to read only the news that confirms its political instincts. This, too, has contributed to polarization and ignorance. —Claire Berlinski in City...
Read more[John] Milbank’s fundamental double claim: first, that if God is who Christians say he is and if he has done what Christians say he has done, then theology, the science of God, presents the “metanarrative” of history, the organizing logic of all knowledge, with the right and responsibility to intervene to correct all other sciences; and, second, that modern theology has steadily ceded its terrain to secular thought, so that instead of positioning other sciences theology has been positioned by them and rendered itself superfluous.
Leithart on Milbank
[John] Milbank’s fundamental double claim: first, that if God is who Christians say he is and if he has done what Christians say he has done, then theology, the science of God, presents the “metanarrative” of history, the organizing logic of all knowledge, with the...
The Naked Public Square
The public square, like nature, abhors a vacuum. If it is not filled with the lively expression of the most deeply held convictions of the people, including their convictions grounded in religion, it will be filled by the quasi-religious beliefs of secularism’ as...
Vote for Me!
I've just seen one of those rare birds, an Internet discussion that seems civil. And I'm in the rare bird! It's over at Quora, a pretty neat site I've not spent much time on but attracts higher-than-average-quality user-submitted answers to a wide range of...