The Funny, the Serious and the Social: A Reflection from the Leno/Conan Controversy
By Jennifer D Gaertner in Media, Television — February 4, 2010 at 2:00 amIt’s been an odd couple of weeks in the news recently, with a number of articles and video segments frantically reporting on the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno fiasco. “I’m with Coco” fans’ dreams for the future of The Tonight Show were laid to rest when NBC executives officially announced a little over a week ago that they planned to send him and his crew packing. In short: there has been much hype surrounding...
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Our Avatars
By Amy Cannon in Other — February 8, 2010 at 2:48 pmI have not seen Avatar. I don’t plan on seeing it, either. Before the film fanatics stone me, know that I watch very few movies at all — much less movies that cost over 10 dollars to see. I don’t have much of a soft spot for SciFi, and — I have heard — though the visual affects are heavenly, the story line holds about as much water as a swiss cheese. I’m more interested in...
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Culture, Evangelicals, Protestant, Religion
In Defense Of Complementarianism: A Response To Allen Yeh (Part 3)
In my last post I gave several theological arguments designed to undermine the presuppositions of egalitarianism, show that...
Dec 3, 2009 0:01
Art & Literature, Blogging, Culture, History
A Blog of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf’s seminal “A Room of One’s Own” argues that women have not produced great literature...
Dec 4, 2009 10:44
Lunch with TED
Kids Transformed By Music – Lunch w/ TED
“Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids’...
Jun 10, 2009 13:43
Art & Literature, Book Reviews, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
Classics for the Contemporary Christian: Digging into Darwin
Darwin’s Dead and He Ain’t Coming Back…or so the Christian bumper sticker says. Personally, my favorite is the one...
Feb 3, 2010 0:05
Recent Articles
The Funny, the Serious and the Social: A Reflection from the Leno/Conan Controversy
By Jennifer D GaertnerIt’s been an odd couple of weeks in the news recently, with a number of articles and video segments frantically reporting on the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno fiasco. “I’m with Coco” fans’ dreams for the future of The Tonight Show were laid to rest when NBC executives officially announced a little...
February 4th, 2010 | Media, Television | Read More 33 Things: This Week’s Intriguing & Amusing Links
By Robin DembroffHere we go again! This week’s 33 links–everything from Apple flops to Burger King bars to French politics. We’ve got it all.
1.Victor Davis Hanson asks, “Is Obama trying to be Plato’s Philosophy King?”
2.Before & After: Satellite Images of Haiti
3. Pants bomber causes grief...
January 29th, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More A Rush to the Middle… Class
By Lindsay StallonesIt’s the speech the White House Communications Office spends a year writing, and the news media spends a couple days dissecting. It was important enough that the Framers mandated that the president “shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend...
January 28th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Democrats, Domestic Policy, Economy, Politics | Read More Barack Obama: The Populist Professor?
By Rachel MotteLast night’s State of the Union address changed nothing, aside from Chris Matthews’ eyesight, which I trust has returned to normal. President Obama is still committed to the same unpopular policies that have left him with a dropping approval rating, and he “won’t quit”.
Neither will Republicans,...
January 28th, 2010 | Democrats, Other, Politics, Republicans | Read More Finding Flannery
By Lauren MyracleFlannery O’Connor famously claimed that “there won’t be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.”
Happily, Brad Gooch has begged to differ.
January 28th, 2010 | Art & Literature, Book Reviews | Read More Was the Haitian disaster preventable?
By Amy CannonThe obvious response to this potentially offensive question is no. Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake, as straightforward an Act of Nature (or God, depending on who you ask) as one could find. The world is now rushing to relieve the overwhelming devastation this tiny country has suffered. Whether...
January 27th, 2010 | Social Justice | Read More I :heart: My Boss: Achieving Employee Efficiency
By Robin DembroffTwo facts: It has been pouring rain in Southern California for three days.
I can be an incredibly stubborn person.
Added together, they created the scenario in which I refused to drive to work and instead literally waded down sidewalks covered in a foot and a half of water. One mile and thirty minutes...
January 26th, 2010 | Economy | Read More Global Warming: Facts, Fiction, and Freedom
By Rachel MotteGlobal warming might be real, but that doesn’t mean you have to do anything about it. In fact, if your actions are motivated by guilt or fear, Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley would rather you didn’t act at all.
Hayhoe and Farley are the authors of A Climate For Change: Global Warming...
January 25th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Creation Care, Culture, Media, Science | Read More Deconstructing Darwin
By Lindsay Stallones Those who are surprised that a movie about Charles Darwin’s struggle to complete On the Origin of the Species raised controversy in the U.S. haven’t spent much time following the mundanity of the culture wars. In this country, we’ve created entire industries based on the tit for tat public battles...
January 22nd, 2010 | Film, Intelligent Design | Read More 33 Things: The Week’s Amusing and Intriguing Links
By Robin DembroffAfter taking a week reprieve in order to bring you our special 33 Things: Haiti Edition, 33 Things the (renewed) original is back!
Peruse, examine, enjoy.
’till next week!IGIF [I Guess I’m Floating] lists the best songs of the last decade.
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A useful word for your vocabulary. (Unless you...
January 22nd, 2010 | Thirty Three Things | Read More Climbing Raven’s Ladder
By Lindsay Stallones A good book is a rare delight, and a good fantasy book, rarer still. Jeffrey Overstreet’s Auralia Thread promises four great ones. Overstreet began his career not as an author, but as a film reviewer. His book Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies should...
January 20th, 2010 | Book Reviews | Read More Hey Critics, Dig a Little Deeper!
By Tim Bartel[Warning: Mild Spoilers]
If I read one more race-focused review of The Princess and the Frog I’m going to gag. The Princess and the Frog is not about race, any more than the Little Mermaid is about flippers or Aladdin is about fezzes. Yes, it’s true that Disney’s latest 2-D animated film features...
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