Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Better than Project Gutenberg (Well, for Theology)

I love good theology, but I don’t have the time, money, or shelf space to have volumes of books with me everywhere I go. What is more, I don’t always have internet, and even when I do, what is going to keep me from tabbing over to read the news again for the tenth time in the last five minutes?...
February 22nd, 2013 | Art & Literature, Media, Religion | Read More

A Review of “Cold Case Christianity”

Upon finishing Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace, my thoughts traveled back through the literary journey I had just taken and I was surprised at what a wonderful feeling that re-tracing left in my mind. But let me back up. When I was given a copy of Cold-Case Christianity, it came highly recommended....
February 6th, 2013 | Book Reviews | Read More

The Up-to-Date Ancient Truth Behind Your Actions

Research into human motivation shows something surprising, yet intuitive. Cutting-edge, yet ancient. This week, I’ve been reading Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us which states that artificial reward and punishment structures are ineffective human motivators; autonomy, mastery,...
January 28th, 2013 | Book Reviews | Read More

Girls Just Wanna Have…?

Note from the Editor: The views expressed are solely that of the author. This is not an endorsement of the television show Girls. Lena Dunham is an evil genius. I’ve watched her Girls series with a car-crash fascination, respecting her honesty and wit while hoping her characters might get to have...
January 25th, 2013 | Television | Read More

Grace in Television

Why is it that there are certain television shows that, despite sharing common themes, could hardly be more different:? How I Met Your Mother and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for example, initially struck me as being, on the surface, quite similar. A group of friends in the big city, focusing...
January 16th, 2013 | Television | Read More

Tossed Salad, Not Melting Pot: Review of American Nations by Colin Woodard, Part 2

This is my second post to review American Nations by Colin Woodard. In this post, I want to look at some implications for the book’s ideas in understanding American Christianity. Woodard brought together a number of things that I already thought about American Christianity, but his book laid...
January 10th, 2013 | Book Reviews | Read More

Tossed Salad, Not Melting Pot: Review of American Nations by Colin Woodard, Part 1

America is undeniably one country. You don’t need a passport to go from Maine to California and then to Hawaii. You can even go to Alaska from Hawaii, still without needing a passport. The federal government of the United States of America controls all of it. The country, of course, was not always...
January 9th, 2013 | Book Reviews | Read More

Exploring The Hobbit

When most people think of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, they think something like “classic children’s story” or “charming fantasy tale.”  They are not likely to think “serious work of literature”, and in that respect they would find they are in good company...
December 10th, 2012 | Book Reviews, Media | Read More

Can Microsoft Play with the Tech Giants?

Spoiler alert: I think Microsoft is one of the tech giants. When characterizing the technology wars of our age, I suspect many of us come up with the right wars. We think PC vs. Mac for home computers, we think Google and Apple for smartphones (though Microsoft is coming up in this area rather nicely),...
December 5th, 2012 | Technology | Read More

How Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Saved My Sanity

August, September, October, skipping along hand-in-hand with the syllabi I’d been with all semester, how could I expect the cataclysm of November 2012? They’d treated me well for months. Sure, we’d had the occasional midterm and an exam or two. I’d given “this” and...
December 4th, 2012 | Media | Read More