There’s an article up on Salon this evening about the author of a book titled “The End of Faith”: “Sam Harris, author of ‘The End of Faith,’ on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists, 9/11 led us into a deranged holy war, and believers should be treated like alien-abduction kooks.” … The heart of Harris’ book is a frontal assault on Islam and Christianity, carrying both pages and pages of quotations from the Quran […]
All this talk of schism makes me feel like I’m losing my spiritual compass. Maybe it’s a good time to post something about spirituality~not just my own, but teenagers too. This posting about teen spirituality is for parents, god-parents, and anyone who ever witnessed a baptism and promised to support the newly baptized in their life in Christ: As a young child my father told me, no, ordered me, to take some time to be […]
Richard Kew has posted a thoughtful and informative review of Eugene Peterson’s latest book. From Kew’s review: “Eat This Book is a slender volume by Peterson standards, a mere 180 pages, but it took me two months to get through it. Part of the reason for this was that I did not have the time to sit down and read it with a lot of continuity, but part of the reason was that even if […]
My daughter and I went to see the new movie “The Lion, The Witch and Wardrobe” last night. I have to admit that I was dreading seeing the movie. I read the books for the first time when I was in 4th grade, and more than any other book I read as a child, these were treasures. They have had a HUGE influence on me – something that my role as an Anglican clergyman should […]
Salon.com Books | Why myths still matter: “A Briton, a former nun and a self-described ‘freelance monotheist,’ Armstrong lives in a mostly secular society set in a larger world roiled by religious fundamentalism. The mythos/logos formulation serves her well in the task of criticizing both. As a liberal person of faith, she can argue that a logos-ruled culture like Britain’s fails to speak to the persistent desire for meaning. And then she can point out […]
GTD: A New Cult for the Info Age A holy book for the information age is turning stressed-out worker bees into members of an unlikely new cult obsessed with keeping an empty inbox. To converts, popular time-management manual Getting Things Done is a way of life and its author, personal productivity coach David Allen, leader of their flock. When I was in Seminary one thing became very clear. Changing from doing research in physics to […]
