I slept late this morning, and after starting my morning coffee in the pot, I sat down, checked mail, and then fired up Radio to read the News from my aggrergator. Doc’s post showed up first, and I didn’t recognize for a couple of minutes what he was referring to, because I had not separated “Columbia” from “Challenger” (I had Continue Reading
Executive editor Robert Parham: “While he reinforced the widespread view that Saddam Hussein is a brutal tyrant, Bush failed to make the case of a just war against Iraq,” Parham said. “He fanned the flames for war without showing the American public the ‘smoking gun,’ which would help to speak to the principle of just cause.” Parham also said Bush’s Continue Reading
I thought I’d mention, in light of my previous two posts, that I’m going to a Wednesday Night Supper at a Church tonight, and so off I go.
Since I picked up Practicing Our Faith, I am now going through two books (the other being Habits of The High Tech Heart) (see “Review of Habits of the High Tech Heart”) which represent for me two themes which are in dire need of a bridge between the two. Habits , as you have seen if you’ve read some of Continue Reading
Robert Parham points out in this article that there ARE Southern Baptists that ARE AGAINST war with Iraq. Jim Wallis’ recent article mentioned that “with the exception of Southern Baptists”, “virtually every church body in the that has spoken on the war question has concluded this would not be a ‘just war’ “. Parham’s note is important to those of Continue Reading
Story from Associated Baptist Press (via cbfonline newstand) about dismissal of longtime CHRISTIAN INDEX editor (Georgia) Click link above to read entire story. Neal, who is a 28-year employee of the state convention, had been under increasing pressure from conservative leadership for several years. The Index, they contended, was not doing enough to advance the cause of the Southern Baptist Convention and Continue Reading
“Cluetrain Theses Number 3” continues my “extraction of theological insights” from the Cluetrain Manifesto that the Church can use to benefit its online strategy
Habits of The High-Tech Heart is a good read. A lot of it bothered me. But it asked some worthy questions. It left us to ponder what, if anything, we should do as theological communities, to bring alternatives to online life. I think we need to be a “prescence” there. We need to set examples of civility and hospitality, and Continue Reading
I love this poster
I found a blogger who reacts to Habits of the High-Tech Heart, and they notice the absence of alternatives as well.
In “My problem with anti-Net culture rhetoric”, I state the convictions behind my defense of what Schultze would seem to identify as cyber-utopian faith in technology (from my take on his views as expressed in HABITS OF THE HIGH-TECH HEART. It’s not FAITH in technology, but its “envisioning some possibilities” for how the Church can use the technology to “tell Continue Reading
I became an attentive study of Dr. King through media. It began in 1978 when NBC ran a mini-series called “King”, on the 20th anniversary of his assasination. Read more about my coming to revere Martin Luther King, Jr. in “Morality and Media”
Robert Parham of ethicsdaily.com writes about the King speech where King calls on the story of Rip Van Winkle, awaking to find that he had missed the American Revolution: “How can we sleep when the war dogs bark for a clash of cultures? Some in our midst want the American military to crush Islam to advance Christianity. Others want American public schools Continue Reading
I guesss that underneath all my resistance to the continuing seemingly one-sided negative treatment of online culture is the feeling that this view and analysis of online culture is rampant in the Church, and that spells even darker days ahead as I search for meaningful work. Heck, I don’t even have “meaningless work” right now, and now that I’m out Continue Reading
Observations on Chapter 1 of Habits of the High-Tech Heart: “Discerning Our Informationism”