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Culture 3
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Culture 3
The Right to Convenience
If a lawsuit like this isn’t immediately thrown out of court, can we really say we have a “reasonable” justice system? The suit, brought by a judge in D.C., asks for $65 million dollars for a once-lost pair of pants.
This is one more illustration of our society’s sense of entitlement. My favorite part of the […] -
Books, Culture 3
His Dark Materials…Again
11.07.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI read my friend Michelle’s post about HDM, and almost left a post-length comment there. Rather than do that, I thought it might be worthwhile to post my remarks here.
I sympathize with a key point she makes: that Christian folks should be more informed about things that are “unChristian” before beginning a crusade against them. […] -
The Church, Culture 3, Community
House Church Redux
My friend Eric and I have been having intramural discussions about what the church is, and how we should worship. (Read the most recent installment here.) While on some points we’ve agreed to disagree, we agree on the heart of his argument, which is the church’s great responsibility for the Matthew 25 folks, “the least […]
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Culture 3, Technology
Postman on Mutating Media
Every medium of communication, I am claiming, has resonance, for resonance is metaphor writ large. Whatever the original and limited context of its use may have been, a medium has the power to fly far beyond that context into new and unexpected ones. Because of the way it directs us to organize our minds and […]
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Culture 3, Technology, Media
Progress, Technology and the Abolition of Humanity
09.06.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsC. S. Lewis’s now-classic Abolition of Man explores how modernist trends in education could lead to the destruction of humanity. The book is shocking in several respects, not least in its evocation of this year, today, right now. I caught myself checking the copyright page more than once, because I couldn’t really believe that Lewis’s […]
