The Great Comic-Book Scare
Superman, Batman, Plastic Man and Wonder Woman scared the U.S. government during the early culture wars of 1950!
“The panic over comic books falls somewhere between the Red Scare and the frenzy over UFO sightings among the pathologies of postwar America,” says author David Hajdu, who also has written books about Bob Dylan (Positively 4th Street) and Duke Ellington collaborator Billy Strayhorn (Lush Life). Ten-Cent Plague, an angry, detailed inquiry into early culture wars, covers the early ’50s, a superficially placid, distant time some view as a golden age.
Compassionate Progressivism
Compassionate Progressivism? It seem as if the old-guard evangelicalism is crumbling, and the new evangelicalism is moving in, if the current elections are any indication.
Screwtape Letters on Stage
C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters on stage, in Washington D.C. The video and gallery clips are awesome.
Dear God Prayers
Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes and fears through prayer. The personal prayers submitted to Dear God span the wide spectrum of human emotion and passion. The photography and graphic images are fantastic too!
The 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium Call for Posts
Does the medium used effect the message being delivered? If so, how exactly is the message effected? Is it effected in positive or negative ways? Perhaps both? If so, does the positive effects outweigh the negative, or vice versa? Is the message actually shaped or altered by the medium? Can it be shaped by the delivery medium? If so, how? Is the medium implemented deeply considered? These are great questions to be asking, especially as one considers the emerging new medium and technology of our own day. Read More »
The Church and Social Networking Tools
The incredible rise of social networking tools on the Internet is a phenomenon that should not be ignored by the Church. Web 2.0 applications and dedicated Social Networking sites offer the church very real and very practical opportunities to share important information, make lasting contacts, establish virtual relationships, and coordinate missional activity on scales that go well beyond the local environment. For the first time ever, perhaps, we can share field stories, suggestions, tips, and successes in real-time without time or geographical borders or barriers. It is truly a remarkable phenomenon. Read More »
Shout to the Lord on American Idol
American Idol Season 7’s Top 8 sing Shout to the Lord!
The Gospel of Penitentiary Christianity
The transformational power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not negotiable in Penitentiary Christianity.
It’s a funny thing when you first realize that a lot of Bible teaching and imagery you used to think was literary and metaphorical turns out to be truly true. It reminds me of the hucksters of the god “Tash” in C.S.Lewis’ The Last Battle, who thought they had made up “Tash” to exploit the ignorant masses - only to discover he was real and about to devour them.
When one is smashed against the “bottom” of life’s bucket, the Gospel is more than mere words and theories; it is transformational. This truth should force some pretty serious questions concerning the life we live at the “top” of the bucket and the Gospel expressed and lived therein. Is the Gospel the transformational power of God at the top of the bucket too? It should be!
Personas for Firefox Web Browsers
Personas for Firefox offers a far superior way to theme or personalize your Mozilla Firefox browser. Yesterday’s Firefox theme system and methodology feels archaic and clumsy in comparison. Personas renders the time-consuming and frustrating search for quality browser themes obsolete. Also gone is the need for downloading, installing, and restarting the browser to actually use any one theme. Personas is very similar to a CSS theme switcher. Install it and click the Firefox mask to access a menu loaded with categories and themes that can be applied to your browser with one click of your mouse. The personalizations are applied in real-time, before your very eyes! There is no need to download individual themes, install, or restart. It’s all right there in front of you. Read More »
