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Maximize Your Work Time in Four Realistic Steps : Modest Thoughts From a Self-Noted Expert in Wasting Time
Read more: Maximize Your Work Time in Four Realistic Steps : Modest Thoughts From a Self-Noted Expert in Wasting TimeIt’s been about five months since I joined my fantastic friends at the Two Cities writing team and I’m fresh out of content before this week’s deadline. So I imagine I am doing what most content-editors opt for when they’re out of material — countdown list with shameful, click-baity title. Other “titles” considered and self-loathingly…
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My Farewell to Vin Scully: Five Glimpses into Vin’s Greatness
Read more: My Farewell to Vin Scully: Five Glimpses into Vin’s GreatnessAnyone who knows me well can attest to Vin Scully’s importance in my life. His gentle voice, now warmed over by time to a grandfatherly lilt, is a perpetual fixture in our house every April to September (and by the grace of God, most Octobers). That voice. That unmistakable, inimitable voice has been with me for…
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The ‘Blurred Lines’ of Plagiarism, Ownership, and Christian Practice
Read more: The ‘Blurred Lines’ of Plagiarism, Ownership, and Christian PracticeI recall as a first year law student attending a lecture on music copyright by Clyde Spillenger. The professor played a recording of Sweet Georgia Brown by Bernie and Pinkard (the “Harlem Globetrotters song,” if that helps). He then played a folk recording of Hava Nagila (that one Jewish song that you know). He asked students to…
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Domesticated Jesus and Highlighter Christianity
Read more: Domesticated Jesus and Highlighter ChristianityLesslie Newbigin tells an illuminating story about his time as a foreign missionary to India. In the Hindu Ramakrishna monastery, there is a gallery of portraits of the great religious teachers of humankind. Among them is a portrait of Jesus at which worship is offered every Christmas Day. Lest anyone mistake this worship for a…
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Review of The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art by Luke Timothy Johnson
Read more: Review of The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art by Luke Timothy JohnsonJOHNSON, Luke Timothy. The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015. pp. 256. $25.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-0-8028-0383-2. Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Revelatory Body offers the bold thesis that “the human body is the preeminent arena of God’s revelation in the world.”[1] While many will welcome the claim that the human body…
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#PorteOuverte
Read more: #PorteOuverteThursday’s attack in Nice, France (le 14 juillet) follows a painful procession of recent attacks that have occurred throughout our world, many within the past month of Ramadan. France, still collectively recovering from Le Bataclan (and Hebdo before it) finds herself in a heartbreakingly familiar and now seemingly permanent state of alertness and grief. Elsewhere…
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On Travel, the Limits of Language and Being Known
Read more: On Travel, the Limits of Language and Being KnownThis summer for me has been one of language learning and travel to foreign countries — an experience that continues to bring home for me the difficulties involved with human communication. It is hard enough to complete a shopping transaction in a foreign language let alone present a lecture or tell someone how I am…
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The Emerging LGBT Initiative Against Christian Colleges
Read more: The Emerging LGBT Initiative Against Christian Colleges**UPDATE, June 9, 2016. The California Senate Appropriations Committee struck down SB-1888 (proposed by Assemblyman Evan Low), which was the primary legislative bill focused in the article below. However, SB-1146 has been approved by the Appropriations Committee and is moving forward for a vote in the California Senate. SB-1146 was authored by Assemblyman Ricardo Lara (D-Bell…
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Hamilton and Reflections on Forgiveness
Read more: Hamilton and Reflections on Forgiveness[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness these days. I wish I can say it began a few weeks ago when I saw this beautiful gesture of forgiveness displayed by the House of Peace Mosque in Connecticut, which was reminiscent of this inscrutable forgiveness extended to Dylann Roof by Emanuel Church in South Carolina. No,…