There are not a lot of books I find stimulating enough to deserve the ‘full roll out’ review and dialogue with, but Andy Crouch’s new book Culture-Making is one of them. I am currently working on a little book in my Kingdom series for Eerdmans (the first is out next month and entitled Imminent Domain), and this third in the series I am working on is entitled ‘Labora’: Work in the Light of the Kingdom. The following is a draft of what will go into one of the chapters of this book. See what yo
Alan Segal teaches religion at Barnard College. For ten years he worked on this book Life After Death (880 pages, Doubleday, 2004) subtitled, A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion . This brilliant book is chock full of quality facts and insights and rightfully takes it place among those sweeping, comprehensive and analytical interdisciplinary works on great ideas in western culture. This is a work by an accomplished scholar for others who seek humanistic understanding. Segal do
I used to think that every little thing I did was crazy but now I think the karma cops are comin’ after you. aerosmith ~ full circle I’ve given all I can but were still on the payroll. radiohead ~ karma police For a minute there, I lost myself. Several posts ago, in You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby , I wrote, “Hints in the sidebar: compare and contrast.” The big hint was the second item — here it’s the first. The big hint was actually not so big. The big hint was actually prett
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Catherine Stewart, professor at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, speaks about black novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston Friday at the Mt. Pleasant Public Library. MPN photo by Mira Cash-Davis.