Archives for July 2014

3 Poems: Life on a Wind Farm

Under the Turbines Infants and toddlers cannot speak and even pre-teens may not have the vocabulary to describe the unprecedented symptoms they suffer   Teenagers can tell you more— they are developing a lexicon for suffering They are beginning to see that life is unfair and full of strife   and even if they sometimes […]

Watch the Sky…On Your Wall?

Love the sky, but don’t want to have go outside or even look up? This place has the solution:

Together Apart

A few years ago, AT&T launched an ad campaign for its mobile phone services. In it, a business traveler checks into a stark and lifeless motel room. He sits alone on the bed, dejected and lonely. The ad then cuts to him sitting in an airport after his flight has been delayed. A close-up of […]

Loneliness vs. Electric Shock. Who wins?

Blaise Pascal famously wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” and now science shows us a deeper truth: that we would rather administer electric shocks to ourselves than sit quietly in a room alone. Read on below. The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders […]

Steve Turner’s “Popcultured”: A Review

Steve Turner, in Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment, takes on the daunting task of exploring the relationship Christianity ought to have with popular culture. Turner is addressing the stream of thought within Christendom that separates Christianity and popular culture. This book is not a theological treatise or a doctrinal handbook, “but it’s essentially […]

Read Schuchardt to Speak at Christ Community Church as Part of #TrendingNow Series

Co-founder and chairman of Second Nature‘s editorial board Read Mercer Schuchardt will be speaking throughout the weekend of July 12th and 13th at Christ Community Church, a multi-site evangelical church in Illinois. Part of their summer “#TrendingNow: Christ & Culture” series, Schuchardt will be “analyzing the so-called ‘better quality of life’ provided by technology in the post-digital […]

How the Christian Media Industry Made “Bible” into a Category Instead of a Proper Name

Tonight, after dinner, baths, and a lot of screaming, my wife and I will settle down next to our toddlers and attempt to inculcate them into the Christian mythos telling them the stories of Abraham, Rahab, Paul, Silas, and the rest. Sometimes we read from our own leather-bound Bibles, but most nights we use books […]

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