Wednesday September 1, 2010
- Flyleaf resists labelling (Edmonton Journal)
- Author: More teens becoming ‘fake’ Christians (CNN)
- Los Lobos are so good they make it all seem effortless (Wall Street Journal)
- Tangible faith in an age of distraction by Craig Detweiler (Washington Post)
- The lust for late: Cultivating a profitable new niche, the art world is scouring for undervalued works by major artists and re-evaluating Dalí’s post-Surrealist work. (Wall Street Journal)
- Faith and faithfulness: Praying for your partner stops you straying (Economist)
- A sequel to “The Reformation of Ritual,” Susan Karant-Nunn’s pathbreaking book by Lauren Winner (Books & Culture)
- Married to the CIA: If you abhor the vacuum left by Jack Bauer’s “24,” here’s a series that promises to fill the void by Dorothy Rabinowitz (Wall Street Journal)
- Saved by an Atheist: Christians gave Albert Camus good reasons not to believe. He gave me a reason to return to faith by Rob Moll (Christianity Today)
- Queens man lives in bathroom to cut off tech addiction (am New York)
- Raising Hell in the hollow: How a rowdy pair of Blue Ridge twins fought, clowned, stomped and crooned—and made great ‘hillbilly music’ (Wall Street Journal)
- Augustine, Millennial Man by Ken Curtis (Christianity)
- Black voices from the pulpit: An anthology of religious rhetoric that also embraces emancipation, ‘whooping’ and liberation theology. (Wall Street Journal)
- Check out Big Questions Online with Rod Dreher
- A perfect game: The metaphysical meaning of baseball by David B. Hart (First Things)
- Punditry at the drive-thru (The National Interest)
- Unearthly Powers: A review of Isaac Asimov’s “The End of Eternity” (3Penny)
- But will it make you happy? (NY Times)
- George Soros’s Evangelicals: Meet Richard Cizik, head of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good by Mark Tooley (Weekly Standard)
- Jazz through Leonard’s lens: The photographer Herman Leonard, who died Aug. 14 at age 87, used shadow, light and smoke to create indelible images of jazz masters. (Wall Street Journal)
- Terra Infirma: The rise and fall of quicksand by Daniel Engber (Slate)
- The Muppets’ military mission: Elmo and friends help military children struggling with loss, grief and fear. (Wall Street Journal)
- New generation reimagines museums: A new generation of women and men in their 40s is taking the reins at America’s top art museums. Shaped by their times, many have different views of what a museum should be. (Wall Street Journal)
- Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession. Why Christians should be wary of the late pop philosopher and her disciples by Gary Moore (Christianity Today)
- Ricky Skaggs, Christian artist. The bluegrass legend’s new album, “Mosaic,” explores the singer’s religious faith. (Wall Street Journal)
- Geometry of the Spirit: The Air Force Academy Chapel is a masterpiece that combines the soaring forms of Chartres with the imagery of fighter jets aloft. (Wall Street Journal)
- Simplicity: It’s complicated. When trying to buy and spend less only breeds anxiety, maybe it’s time to check motives by Ellen Painter Dollar (her.meneutics)
- Can we choose happiness? In “Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science,” Sissela Bok traces the history of how we have defined happiness. (Wall Street Journal)
- U2 rocks Moscow: Bono mixes pop and politics (Wall Street Journal)
- High-speed photographs by Lex Augusteijn capture the moment a bullet hits objects (Telegraph)
- The ‘Low’-down on Robert Duvall: The veteran actor discusses his new film ‘Get Low’, a folk tale about an eccentric recluse—and gets a little feisty about ‘The Apostle.’ (Christianity Today)
- Coffins made with brotherly love have undertakers throwing dirt (Wall Street Journal)
- Activist targets evangelicals on immigration (AP)
- Comic-Con and beyond: “The Jedi Path” by Lynette Mong (Omnivoracious)
