The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Derek Webb capitalizes on a tweet-fight with the Roots’ ?uestlove to bring on the funk. It was more than a year ago that I talked to Derek Webb about… well, stuff. Toward the end, I asked him about a string of tweets regarding issues he seemed to be having with […]
My cool friend Joy posted this video last weekend. It was sent to her by a fan. It’s funny, right? And it speaks to inconvenient truths…that’s why it’s funny. Like anything funny, the whole story it ain’t. (Pause with me a moment, and imagine a world where, say, Louis CK’s perspective […]
Google knows where we live, Facebook knows whom we like, Amazon knows what we buy, and governments know pretty much everything else. It’s a worrisome prospect to think that we might be living in a world that closely resembles George Orwell’s 1984, but it is even more worrisome to think […]
Converging the Week Neuroscience and Religious Belief Neuroscience is all the rage. By claiming to “unlock” the secrets of the human mind – said to be science’s final frontier – neuroscience captures the public’s imagination in everything from disease to economics to art to religion. Sally Satel, co-author of the […]
Woolwich Terror Attack On Wednesday, two Islamist terrorists brutally stabbed and chopped British soldier Lee Rigby to death with knives and meat cleavers in broad daylight in the neighborhood of Woolwich in South-East London, UK. The attack has led to a media firestorm because the onlookers who quickly surrounded the […]
We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Instead of saying goodbye, Zach Sobiech, a teen diagnosed with terminal cancer, decided to sing a goodbye to all those he loved. In the process he became an internet sensation with his viral video Clouds. Zach died […]