Ironic Reminder
If you want to watch a ten-minute video clip reminding you not to waste your life watching video clips, watch this video about Bhutan (warning: there are a few brief objectionable elements because they show American TV). It’s old news, but still relevant. Bhutan was the last nation in the world to legalize television. Not all the effects have been good. Judge for yourself by watching the excellent PBS Frontline video. To TV watchers and other media addicts (who doesn’t fight it?), I give an...
Great Quip
I read a little comment recently that the watchdog group Freedom From Religion is "like a fish starting Freedom From Water." To stretch the simile a bit and take it in a direction probably unintended by the original author, fish don't just live in an environment full of water; water is inside them at all times. In other words, everyone is religious—if I can take sense 2 of religion from the New Oxford American Dictionary: "A particular system of faith and worship: the world's great religions."...
Ultimate
A little shout-out for my favorite sport: Ultimate was #1 on Sportscenter's top 10 plays today! Check it out!
Dissertation Progress
I have added two tickers to my widgets. Don’t we all? Check them out beneath my Feedburner count widget on the right side of the home page, and pray for me if you would. I want my dissertation to be a benefit, however small, to the church. At least my own.
Fish on Liberalism Again
Stanley Fish, in Why We Can't All Just Get Along If you persuade liberalism that its dismissive marginalizing of religious discourse is a violation of its own chief principle, all you will gain is the right to sit down at liberalism's table where before you were denied an invitation; but it will still be liberalism's table that you are sitting at, and the etiquette of the conversation will still be hers. That is, someone will now turn and ask, "Well, what does religion have to say about this...