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Since I mentioned the article on the Catholicism of Marshall McLuhan , I’ve been apprised of two more worthy essays about the Canadian thinker. In The New Atlantis , Alan Jacobs asks why we should bother with McLuhan : I have been reading McLuhan off and on since, at age sixteen, I bought a . . . . Continue Reading »

Amazon is having a big sale on Kindle ebooks . With 946 to choose from, ranging in price from $0.99-3.99, you’re bound to find something to add to your reading list. While you’re there be sure to pick up a Kindle subscription to First Things . (Via: Reformissionary ) . . . . Continue Reading »

At CNN, Laura Sessions Stepp wonders why pop culture doesn’t present a favorable view of fidelity : If you were to ask me the names of married couples on TV who are monogamous and enjoy a lively, contented if sometimes contentious relationship, I’d be hard-pressed to come up with any . . . . Continue Reading »

John Starke explains for the UCC why “you’re not trinitarian just by calling yourself trinitarian”: Isn’t it interesting that when we try to clear God of his trinitarian nature and then try to describe who he is, we only have impersonal terms? Athanasius didn’t like the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: What’s Gone Wrong , Public Discourse (William Jeynes) Christian Game Developers Want to Leave Bad Games Behind , Kotaku (Owen Good) Campus Crusade Changes Name to Cru , Christianity Today (Sarah Pulliam Bailey) IOM Report: “Birth . . . . Continue Reading »

Rachel Jankovic on where children rank in our culture : The truth is that years ago, before this generation of mothers was even born, our society decided where children rank in the list of important things. When abortion was legalized, we wrote it into law. Children rank way below college. Below . . . . Continue Reading »

In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” What Gibson meant was that the innovations in science fiction could already be found—at least in embryonic form—in our current ideas or technology. Much the same could be said about future social and legal norms concerning the institution of marriage—they are already here, they’re just not evenly distributed yet… . Continue Reading »

Walter Russell Mead on contemporary anti-Semitism : Since Hitler’s death, the world has defined anti-Semitism down. Nurturing ancient fantasies of secret Jewish cabals that control the media and play politicians like puppets on a string, and making political judgments based on these fantasies . . . . Continue Reading »

Pope names Chaput to succeed Philadelphia archbishop , USA Today (Cathy Lynn Grossman) ‘Instant churches’ convert public schools to worship spaces , USA Today (Cathy Lynn Grossman and Natalie DiBlasio) Why We Don’t Use Natural Family Planning , Her.meneutics (Ellen Painter Dollar) . . . . Continue Reading »

Marshall McLuhan thought my tribe (re: Protestants) was to blame for the ills of the modern world. As he once wrote his mother, “I need scarcely indicate that everything that is especially hateful and devilish and inhuman about the conditions and strain of modern industrial society is not only . . . . Continue Reading »