Middlebrow Megachurch Infotainment
What Was the TED Talk? Bill Gates wheels a hefty metal barrel out onto a stage. He carefully places it down and then faces the audience, which sits silent in a darkened theater. "Wh...
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Unintended consequences of failure porn – Liam Thatcher
Unintended consequences of failure porn – Liam Thatcher I’m seven episodes into The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill and my feelings are more mixed than before. Not particularly towards the podcast i...
Camille Paglia: The Death of the Hollywood Sex Symbol (Guest Column)
Jump-cut to today's humdrum office world, where men and women sit side by side, doing the same routine jobs. Turf sharing and overfamiliarity between the sexes have produced boredom and simmering r...
"Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy." Pope Benedict XVI
Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy. In about the third century, there was an attempt in certain Gnostic-Docetic circles to introduce it into the liturgy. For these people...
theoldjamestownchurch - Blog - "PhD Anglicanism" and the Anglican Disease
"PhD Anglicanism" and the Anglican Disease Embryo Parson Posted on Monday, July 20, 2015 at 03:23PM As some readers may have noticed, on Friday evening I took down an article I posted entitl...
Ironic living is a first-world problem.
Ironic living is a first-world problem. For the relatively well educated and financially secure, irony functions as a kind of credit card you never have to pay back. In other words, the hipster can...