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Another Week Ends: Self-Evangelism, Jay-Z, Paradoxes, Susan Boyle, …
1. Another scorcher from our 2011 NYC conference speaker Mark Galli entitled “Evangelizing Ourselves”, in which he unwittingly sums up much of our operating philosophy: How do we talk about our faith...
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Another Week Ends: Yancey on AA, Whit Stillman, Dawn Treader and R …
1. A great little interview with evangelical author Philip Yancey on CNN about his new book What Good Is God?, in which he responds to one of our all-time favorite questions, i.e: What can churches...
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Another Week Ends: Galli on Resolutions, Anger at God, Last Words, …
1. The final word on the New Year from 2011 Mockingbird Conference speaker Mark Galli over at Christianity Today, in his column “Blessed Are the Poor in Virtue”: At the risk of derailing someone’s hard...
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Another Week Ends: Brooks on the Subconscious and Failure, DFW Stu …
1. A fascinating article by David Brooks in The New Yorker about “What the Science of Human Nature Can Teach Us.” Bottomline appears to be that people are not the free agents they think they are, the...
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Another Week Ends: Facebook Blues, Freshman Blues, Bowling Blues, …
1. Libby Copeland at Slate asks the question “Is Facebook Making Us Sad?”, unpacking some findings from a recent study at Stanford. Very relevant stuff: “The researchers found that their subjects...
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Another Week Ends: Transformation Myths, Eating Disorders, Suicida …
1. The timing just could not be any better. NYC Mockingbird Conference Speaker Mark Galli has been blowing up this past week, most notably on The Internet Monk. Start with The Evangelical Myth of...
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Another Week Ends: Stalin, The Confession App, Forgotten Rights, E …
1. A thoughtful if gruesome review on Slate of Timothy Synder’s new book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin which delves into the perennial question of the relative evil of the two dictators’...
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Another Week Ends: Galli on B(h)ell, Growing Up Catholic, Secret M …
1. If you’ve been scratching your head over the whole “Rob Bell universalism” uproar this past week, conference speaker Mark Galli will set you straight with this charitable overview of how the topic...
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Another Week Ends: Japan, Facebook & Divorce, Preschool Litiga …
1. Two very moving additions to the coverage of the disasters in Japan. First, if you can decipher the google-translation, there’s the story of a woman who sacrificed her life to warn a village of the...
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Another Week Ends: Ugly Anthropomorphism, Shaken Manchildren, Big …
Doing my best to fill in for DZ, who is currently gearing up for next week’s conference. 1) A great article from the Times this week, discussing the recent tendency of creaturely films (“Rango” etc) to...
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