33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links
By Robin Dembroff in Thirty Three Things — March 12, 2010 at 12:05 amMasculine slang-Victorian style, disagreements about Tim Burton, Godzilla, Symbols, Color-by-number toilet paper…oh…and even a little politics. (Meh!)
1. Forty “Bad” Books, according to the “experts”.
2. I Stopped Denying People: Ex- Bank of America CSR Tells All
3. Godzilla Haiku
4. Miniature Worlds
A friend of mine, staring at the map of Mordor that hung on the wall in...
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Evangelicals
On Reading the Bible
In an essay at Modern Reformation, David Nienhuis presents the rather bleak case that Americans are biblically illiterate....
Feb 15, 2010 3:00
Art & Literature, Blogging
On Overcoming Writer’s Block
After staring idly at the white screen for a few moments, your brows furrow. You type out a sentence. It is terrible; you...
Feb 22, 2010 1:00
Lunch with TED
The Suprising Spread of “Idol” TV in the Middle East- Lunch w/TED
Reality TV in the United States has a poor reputation. And frankly, it often deserves it. After all, some of this year’s...
Mar 11, 2010 12:00
Book Reviews, Culture, Media
Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Is Your Identity As You Like It?
If the world is a stage, we like putting on the same shows. The Matrix, The Truman Show, Equilibrium…not original. Even...
Mar 8, 2010 0:05
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Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Is Your Identity As You Like It?
By Robin DembroffIf the world is a stage, we like putting on the same shows. The Matrix, The Truman Show, Equilibrium…not original. Even in Shakespeare’s 17th century comedy As You Like It, we confront the suggestion that the world is a sham and humans are the sham’s pawns.
At surface-level, the play is a ball...
March 8th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Media | Read More 33 Things: The Week’s Amusing & Intriguing Links
By Robin DembroffYou know…I just don’t feel like writing an introduction. So shoot me!
(Oh, but do check out the top 100 films.)
1. It’s rare for a company to admit to child labor, much less do their own investigation — let’s hope systemic solutions will quickly follow.
2. How to use that...
March 5th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More You Are A Muggle
By Picturing the WordWelcome back! We hope you enjoyed the first podcast and are excited to continue to discuss what makes a hero and a myth.
For the second class, we watched:
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
The Last Son of Krypton from “Superman: The Animated Series”
Pilot from “Smallville”
Superman on Earth from...
March 4th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film, Other, Picturing the Word | Read More David Cameron on The Next Age of Government – Lunch w/ TED
By Dustin R. SteeveIf there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives can agree on it is this: that an informed citizenry is both necessary and beneficial to the growth and flourishing of a democratic nation.
This week’s Lunch with TED features David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative party in the United Kingdom...
March 4th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Lunch with TED | Read More Classics for the Contemporary Christian: The Straits of Orthodoxy
By Robin Dembroff I have a bone to pick with G.K. Chesterton about his book Orthodoxy. It took me a ridiculously long time to read. He just had to go and make every sentence so delicious and profound that I was forced to sit back after every line in order to laugh at his wit or furiously scribble notes.
Think I’m...
March 3rd, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Media, Religion, Worldviews | Read More A Killer in Captivity
By Amy CannonThe killer whale killing of this last Wednesday has received a lot press. Video footage of the trainer’s shocking death has gone viral, which hackers have used as a vehicle to spread actual viruses. This has aroused as much righteous indignation as the prurience which motivates millions of hits...
March 2nd, 2010 | Bioethics, Creation Care, Media | Read More Dear Christian: Sigh No More
By Robin DembroffAs if four vocalists, two drum sets, guitars, organ and piano aren’t enough, Mumford & Sons also employs banjo, dobro, mandolin, and well-crafted lyrics to pierce their listener with sublime melodies.
A brand new folk indie-rock band based out of London, Mumford & Sons‘ first album,...
March 1st, 2010 | Art & Literature, Culture, Media, Music | Read More 33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links
By Robin DembroffIf you are amused by the aesthetics of Disney zombie art or Nietzschean cartoons, intrigued by articles on C.S. Lewis or how to think about sin or–this is the best one–interested in how you are actually being productive by reading this 33 Things rather than tackling that to-do list, this...
February 26th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More Harry Potter and Superman – The Struggle Between Film and Imagination
By Picturing the WordHello! And welcome to Picturing the Word! We’re your hosts, Danielle Howe and John Sirjord.
So what’s this all about?
Well…
This podcast is both a continuation and a response to a class that John and I are taking through the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. The class, titled Heroes...
February 25th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Film, Picturing the Word | Read More J.J. Abrams on Story, Technology, and “Mystery Boxes” – Lunch w/ TED
By Lauren MyracleOur “Lunch with TED” feature is back—and here to stay. (For the uninitiated, see Dustin’s original TED post here.) To commemorate this momentous occasion (and, frankly, the return of Lost, now in its sixth season) I chose to highlight a TED Talk by one of my favorite filmmakers—J.J. Abrams,...
February 25th, 2010 | Lunch with TED | Read More Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Er…Kommunistischen?
By Robin DembroffCommunism’ is a likely candidate for ‘touchiest word of the 20th century’.
While the word evokes many high-charged reactions, two seem consistent among American conservatives: First, communism is associated with naïve hippies who think there should be no war and want to sing ‘Why Can’t We...
February 24th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Politics, Worldviews | Read More 






