vol. 9, num. 10 :: 2010.05.14 — 2010.05.27
Is there really a man behind the curtain? Or is the notion of controlling “machine” just the paranoid imagining of conspiracy theorists? Reflections on how we live daily with the sense that something is not quite right with what humans have made of the world.
Who, exactly, is "the man"...and what can we do about him?
Decartes vs. Paul on certainty, deception and human flourishing in the real world.
What to do when the system's getting you down...even in your sleep.
A reflection on Psalm 22 and communication technology.
On the challenges of staying awake in a digital world.
Are Christians standing on a solid rock or an empty shell?
A review of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
Reflections from a morning bike ride on the good things about chipping in.
How what we believe shapes what we make and what we make shapes what we believe.
Eric Kuiper review’s Michael Moore’s film Capitalism: A Love Story .
Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat take on N.T. Wright’s exegesis as it relates to economic justice.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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