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Monthly Archives: August 2011

iPod after 10 years: on the 10th anniversary of the decade’s most seismic technological shift and what it says about the state of theology today

The next few weeks will be focused in the news cycles and blogosphere on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  Already the questions about where we have come from since this event and where we are going is filling the web and the airwaves.

Yet in the midst of this important season of reflection, another 10 year anniversary is upon us that also deserves some critical reflection.

This October … There’s more to read here.

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What I learned on summer vacation – random thoughts at the end of the road

 

Each summer I have taken my family on a road trip through some of America’s national parks.  Last summer we did the California redwoods, Yosemite National Park, and the Oregon Coast.  This summer we worked our way through more of the Oregon Trail and down into Utah – Zion National Park, Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point, and some white water rafting on the Colorado River in Moab.  These … There’s more to read here.

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Hungering for heaven: words from CS Lewis

It has been one of those days when I have had a particular hungering for another world – free of violence, free of political bickering, free of poverty, free of disease, free of death.  I went through points today when I was able to fend off this life, but only for a moment.  Another world seemed to keep whispering to me from around corners, through the branches of the trees, … There’s more to read here.

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Third Verse Generation: the turning of the tide is pulling the old personalities away

I just returned from a wonderful intergenerational gathering of creatives: film makers, poets, studio artists, dancers and choreographers, novelists, essayists, apologists, working stage actors and directors, pastors and even some theologians in the mix.  People were at turns extroverted to nominally passionate, distantly to distinctly vintage and pseudo to suburbanly Christian trending from high to low to no church.  During the week together new friendships were forged, people who ‘liked’ status updates … There’s more to read here.

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