Last year my husband and I joined our friends in a 200-seat theater to hear a relatively unknown band called The Civil Wars. This was before the Grammys and before their collaboration with Taylor Swift for the Hunger Games soundtrack. I hadn’t heard much about the duo before this show… [more]
Arts & Leisure
Frank Langella and fame
I recently came across two interviews with Frank Langella discussing his memoir Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them. I first saw Langella on the Tavis Smiley Show and then Charlie Rose the next night. Both times I watched with great fascination as Langella talked as much… [more]
Narnia or Neverland: what fantasy land would you visit?
Evangelicals prefer Narnia, Catholics have a wanderlust for Wonderland and mainline Protestants are split between hitching a ride to Hogwarts, Narnia or Neverland. Those are the results from a unique poll by the television show "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair magazine. The survey asked 1,000 Americans what fantasy land they'd… [more]
What I learned as a card-counting Christian
If the Holy Spirit lives inside of me, He sure has been to an awful lot of casinos. For the last six years, I was a card counter. I played on a team of more than two dozen card counters, all of us trained to beat casinos at the game… [more]
Mike Daisey, This American Life and the truest story ever told
My dogs know most things through their noses. You might say that smelling is their epistemology. Their sense of smell has always been keener than their eyesight or hearing and is even more so now that those senses are diminishing with age. The human race is a little less constant,… [more]
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Bradm Professional blackjack seems to me to lack any sort of service of one's neighbor...
What I learned as a card-counting Christian
Adam Forrest Interesting thoughts, though I would like to challenge your statement that some kindnesses are banal. If I treat real virtues like honesty and humility as banal goodness, I think I would be taking good graces for granted.
How the Berenstain Bears enhance the Ten Commandments
Mari-Anna Frangen Stalnacke I personally use Pinterest to do ministry. So let's not throw (out) the baby with the bath water. Authentic living is possible in social media, too.
Does Pinterest promote consumerism or community?
Tanny Thank you for putting into words exactly why I'm uncomfortable with how much time I (and others) spend on the internet, watching TV, etc. It's not that we've lost the ability to have conversations, it's that it's become easier to see real people as just another image to consume.
Screen images as neighbors