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Why America outpaces Europe?
06.08.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSome questions for Niall Ferguson, following his article in the NYT. When did correlation start implying cause? You admit that Europe has been catching up with US productivity for fifty years, yet discount this fact because Europeans are working less? How does that work? What if your average overworked American is worse off for it […]
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Traditions vs. sacred texts
06.07.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Traditions vs. sacred textsThose of us living now in post-Christendom have something of a collective memory of the once violent conflict between Christians who placed priority on their sacred texts and those who placed priority on their sacred traditions. You know, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. I tend to be a bit Catholic on this one myself because […]
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60 Easy Ways to Share No Doubt’s Love
06.05.03 | Permalink | 14 Comments(Adapted–as encouraged–from the pamphlet “60 Ways to Share Christ’s Love,” published by the Evangelism Division of the Baptist State Convention of South Carolina.) Sixty Ways for Sixty Days One of the greatest joys a No Doubt fan club member can experience is that of having a part in leading another person to saving faith in […]
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What do you require of me?
06.04.03 | Permalink | 13 CommentsThe Happy Tutor has an excellent post imagining global civil society circa 2015. It’s said that where empires have subjects, states have citizens. Nevertheless, Foucault argues that the state still makes heavy demands on its citizen-subjects. These often unspoken obligations include: to live (in as close to full health as possible) to work productively (so […]
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On the choice of a personal canon
06.04.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsInclude in your personal canon all texts –books, poems, films, music, art, etc.– in which you have experienced the sacred. (Don’t include those you merely liked or found meaninful, or you’ll end up with the world’s longest list.) They do not need to be what you’d traditionally consider religious texts. It’s okay to include fragments […]
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How can we know god?
06.03.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsMost formal god-talks have a chapter or two up front dealing with the question of how it is that we could come to know anything at all about god. More to the point, they lay out which ways of god-knowing are correct and which are incorrect. (Theology tip: if you can throw out your opponent’s […]
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