January 2011
2 posts
“If you want to be a New Atheist, first and foremost, you need to possess an...”
– So you want to be a new atheist « The Immanent Frame (via ayjay)
December 2010
1 post
“Not surprisingly, patients who escaped depression with the help of...”
– The Depressed Age | Wired Science | Wired.com (via ayjay)
November 2010
1 post
“At the time, though, I felt distant from Zuckerberg and all the kids at Harvard....”
– Zadie Smith (via ayjay)
September 2010
1 post
“We do not as churches seek political power or control, or the dominance of...”
– Papal Visit 2010: Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech – full text | CatholicHerald.co.uk (via ayjay)
May 2010
1 post
David Foster Wallace - Address at Kenyon College...
There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says: “Look, it’s not like I don’t have actual reasons for not believing in God. It’s not like I...
March 2010
4 posts
“Cornell’s run to the Sweet 16 as a No. 12 seed may be tarnished after reports...”
– Report: Cornell Players Given High-Quality Education on Sports Pickle (via ayjay)
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzU0MDYxMW... →
Stupak and other pro-life dems cast aside in healthcare debate? Follow the link to read the story.
“All across the country there were demonstrations on March 4 by students (and...”
– This is hilarious and tragic….How the Campuses Helped Ruin California’s Economy (via ayjay)
February 2010
5 posts
“Sleep not only rights the wrong of prolonged wakefulness, but, at a...”
– I always knew our Latin American brothers and sisters were wiser than we are: the value of the siesta.
“Using the Large Hadron Collider, physicists hope to eventually detect the Higgs...”
– Large Hadron Collider is up and running well. Cool!
“The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning; but the variation is...”
– G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via ayjay)
“What is the matter with us? What is the meaning of this story? These men have...”
– Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VIII, vii, 18.
http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-... →
Robinson teaching theologians how to write. Amen.
January 2010
15 posts
http://mockingbirdnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-fo... →
“Kurzweil took some serious heat … during a panel discussion after the premiere...”
– I, Robot | Print Article | Newsweek.com (via ayjay)
“The theme that I was trying to tap into was that irrational love defeats...”
– From an interview in Christianity Today with Andrew Stanton, director and writer of “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E”.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Man Of Peace In A... →
This is a good introduction to MLK’s thinking. The Mike Douglas show interview is particularly helpful (and at times, angering).
“There was a time when the church was very powerful, in the time when the early...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“No film school teaches about the Phantom Hollywood genre: mainstream movies that...”
– Armond White reviews the new Nancy Meyers film, It’s Complicated
“Can you imagine giving the eulogy at a funeral and starting out by saying...”
– Donald Miller responds to Pat Robertson’s recent remarks about Haiti…
http://mockingbirdnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/ill-with... →
Check out Mockingbird’s post on the Avett Brothers song, “Ill With Want.” Powerful lyrics.
“Shafie knows a great deal about Christian persecution: He converted from Islam...”
– Christian convert in Egypt escapes to Israel on a jet ski
“After desperately trying to improve our situation for two months and having been...”
– Kurt Vonnegut on his time as a POW in Dresden.
“If you treat your faith like a hothouse flower, too vulnerable to survive in the...”
– Someone’s been boning up on their Chesterton!
Ross Douthat on the need for religious discourse.
“Monday’s article at the Wall Street Journal, which provided confirmation...”
– John Martellaro, former Apple marketing exec, tells all over at MacObserver
“Doctoral education is the horse the university is riding to the mall. People are...”
– Louis Menand, Harvard English professor, on the state of academic education in America….
“Apple is in the business of making complete products, for which they craft...”
– More interesting speculation about the impending Mac Tablet pc….from John Gruber
December 2009
16 posts
“Religion exists, in part, precisely because humans aren’t at home amid these...”
– Ross Douthat on James Cameron’s Avatar
WatchNeed we say more about the NBA?
“A flashback to last year, U2’s Christmas Song.”
– U2.Com
“Slightly more people went to church in 1962, but many fewer people went out...”
– Into The Mystic - Ross Douthat Blog - NYTimes.com (via ayjay)
John Granger offers a splendid analysis of the Twilight series over at Touchstone.
WatchTracy MacGrady goes to Darfur. I’d never heard of this documentary until today. It’s an interesting piece. MacGrady’s personal narrative and naivete highlight the problems in Darfur in a unique and helpful way.
A posthumous short story by David Foster Wallace appeared in this week’s New Yorker. The story is an exploration of the religious impulse told through a first-person reminiscence. Simply great stuff.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8398562.stm... →
Former cannibals reconcile with descendants of the missionary they ate…2 Corinthians 5!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/movies/06scott.ht... →
A.O.Scott is a fine writer, engaging big ideas. His review of Clooney’s new movie, Up in the Air, is exemplary.
Tanenhaus on Palin
An insightful review of how Palin differs from the Republican forebears she regularly invokes, and what that means for Republican Politics.
http://streetnewspapers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/sn... →
After reading this, I think I might have to buy the Bob Christmas album…
November 2009
2 posts
http://mockingbirdnyc.blogspot.com/2009/11/exclusiv... →
Mockingbird has posted part II of their interview with Mark Galli…
http://www.slate.com/id/2236156/pagenum/all →
Best juxtaposition of Roald Dahl and Motorhead yet…James Parker