The Intersection of Faith and Culture
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Why read in this age of Facebook, viral videos and top 10 lists? There they are. All lined up on my shelf, huddled like a clique in the cafeteria. The rest lay in a pile on the floor, like someone yelled “dog-pile!” and then unloaded on them with an Uzi. They’re […]
We are all asked to do more than we can do. Madeleine L’Engle I never loved writing as much as I did when all I did was think about it, while sitting at a temp desk, or standing behind a coffee counter, or moving from table to table with an […]
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 […]
Have you ever challenged yourself to read one of those books that everyone says is a ‘must-read’? Maybe you’ve been told that tackling The Brothers Karamazov, or War and Peace, or the Bible from cover to cover, will change your life. I must admit that I’m usually not one to […]
‘Who am I?’ It seems like an ominous question. One that belongs in the same philosophical realm as “What is the meaning of life?” Yet it’s a question that we all need to ask ourselves occasionally. I have struggled for the last decade with my identity. I don’t feel as […]
The problem with most career advice, it seems to me, is twofold: First, we are told that we can do whatever we want, and then when we try to do whatever we want, we are told that we can’t do whatever we want. It is rare to see a week […]