Best films of 2010: “Creation”
Okay, so this “best film of 2010″ is actually from 2009. However, I think you can still find it on the New Releases shelf at Blockbuster (or on Netflix, if […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Last post on Calvinism for a while…
As a postscript to yesterday’s post, I just stumbled today on these insightful videos at James K.A. Smith’s blog about the New Calvinism and its evolution. Smith is from Calvin […]
On not being a Calvinist, part 2
When I was in my first year of university just about everybody in our campus ministry was way into the writings of John Piper, a pastor from Minnesota who has […]
On not being a Calvinist
Although I did say that I didn’t really want to deal with intramural Christian debates on this blog, it turns out that one of my most popular posts was the […]
Only the lonely
I just did another post for the “mediation” blog at The Other Journal. It’s about “The Social Network,” loneliness and the Desert Fathers, and you can read it here. I […]
Return of the Televangelists
Some food for thought for the week: A very interesting article from the Huffington Post on the changing relationship between the evangelical church and homosexuality. Jay Bakker, as the article […]
Kitsch
This is Gustav Dore‘s woodcut of the “Celestial Rose,” which illustrates a scene from near the end of Dante’s Paradiso: I quite like it and would even go so […]
Best movies of 2010: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
The recently-released-on-DVD film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” (here’s a clip) is ostensibly about an eccentric Frenchman with a handlebar moustache named Thierry Guetta, who rises from being the owner […]
The Second Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Well, Christmas is over and we have been hurled headlong into a new year. It’s a time of expectation and renewal, a time to look back at 2010 and ask […]
