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Faith, Quotes, Family & Friends
Colson on Community of Memory
If we hope to preserve what makes life worth living, we as a church must preserve the ability to know the truth ourselves—to absorb the meaning of Jesus’ claim: “I am the truth.” And then we must transmit this to our children.
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Faith, Education
The Honest Atheist
In her column at Salon.com, Camille Paglia admits the bankruptcy of atheism:
In my lecture on religion and the arts in America earlier this year at Colorado College, I argued that secular humanism has failed, that the avant-garde is dead, and that liberals must start acknowledging the impoverished culture that my 1960s generation has left to […] -
Faith, Books, Consumerism
The Church of Huey Lewis
I want a new drug
One that does what it should
One that wont make me feel too bad
One that wont make me feel too good
(Huey Lewis)A new book takes Huey Lewis’ suggestion and offers a new Christianity/spirituality for the discontented Christian. The description is below, with the most disturbing line in bold.
A Contrarian’s Guide to Knowing […] -
Faith
Flannery O’Connor
04.17.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsDoug Jones writes in a recent issue of Credenda/Agenda about Flannery O’Connor’s grace-bathed fiction. (I’ve included a few quotes above.) The kicker quote for me in his essay is from Ms. O’Connor herself. She points out that most people eschew a “dark, disruptive grace” for one that is “warm and binding.” Such a view stands […]
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Faith, Culture 3
Stay or Go? Fight or Flight?
I heard about Alejandro Gomez on the radio this morning. His Web site, StayorGo.us, invites visitors to vote whether he should remain in the US and pursue citizenship, or move abroad. On its face, this sounds like an interesting experiment, and with the publicity he’s gotten from radio shows and newspapers around the country (and […]
