The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Me: Did you hear about Popular Science’s decision to ban comments on their website? Internet: Yeah, I saw it. It seems a little silly to me. Doesn’t science depend, much like myself, upon a free exchange of ideas? Why would you want to get rid of that? Me: I know what […]
My first reaction to learning that a Boston bombing movie was in the works was that it was too soon. It reeked of opportunism. It felt like a deliberate attempt to be the first to cash in on an event that captured the imaginations of most North Americans for the […]
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 […]