By Steve
Wednesday November 19, 2008
- Monks turn to reflection with monastery in ruins: “The feelings right now are difficult to describe,” Brother Brown said. “One of the hazards of monasticism throughout the centuries is we become attached to what we have or where we are. This is simply a reminder that what we are called to is not our stuff. This is a cleansing by fire.” (NY Times)
- Fervor builds for Friday’s release of vampire flick ‘Twilight’ (Plain Dealer)
- A hipster’s homily: a review of Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl by John Murphy (GodSpy)
- Video for Over the Rhine’s "Desperate for Love"
- No gain for Obama with white churchgoers: “We were focused on moderate people of faith, moderate mainline Protestants and moderate Catholics,” said an Obama advisor, adding that he nonetheless thought regular churchgoers would come around. “Over time if they get to know Obama. … I think those numbers will increase.” (Politico)
- The Weakerthans’ liturgy of the other hours by Eve Tushnet (GodSpy)
- A monastic kind of life: How Catholic religious communities are trying to attract young people again by Harold Fickett (Slate)
- Survey: Fewer teens interested in entrepreneurship (Wall Street Journal)
- James Bond takes a ‘Quantum’ leap in luxury: Tom Ford creates perfectly tailored suits that match the super spy’s mystique. Forget gadgets, this time around it’s the look that kills. (LA Times)
- Country first: How country music lost the election–and why that may be the best thing to happen to the genre in years (New Republic)
- Why country music not only survived but thrived (Wall Street Journal)
- Skinny models are a ‘turn off’ in advertising, claim scientists: It has been a golden rule of advertising from its inception – thin models sell more products to women. The only trouble is, it is not true, claims new research. (Telegraph)
- The Fray, live at the Gothic (Rocky Mountain News)
- ‘Faith’ saves the day: How videogames are (finally!) turning to women heroines. (Forbes)
- The child trap: The rise of overparenting by Joan Acocella (New Yorker)
- Struggling with the Rosary by Brian Pessaro (GodSpy)
- Blue and red religion by Tim Barr (Risen)
- Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong. “We’re not married. Let’s get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage.” (USA Today)
- Atheists reach out — just don’t call it proselytizing. Nonbelievers think the time is right to better organize their nonreligion and swell the membership; ‘Reason’s Greetings’ (Wall Street Journal)
- World’s worst persecutor: Will U.S. diplomatic shift and Graham visit help Christians? (Christianity Today)
- Wuerl elected to lead panel guarding Catholic Church doctrine (Washington Post)
- Man of sorrow and strife: A review of Bob Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs (GodSpy)
- Tyler Goldman: Giving pop culture more fizz. The chief of Buzznet says his sites have attracted more than 37 million users, in part because of the community’s ability to constantly supply new content. (LA Times)
- Serbian abortionist who aborted 48,000 babies becomes pro-life activist (LifeSiteNews)
- Stinkers a roadside attraction in Silver Lake: The bar with a truck-stop theme is a celebration of ‘Dukes of Hazzard’-style Americana (in post-post-ironic spirit, of course). (LA Times)
- Waugh’s unlikely champions by John Murphy (GodSpy)
- Remedying the bias perception: But some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt are valid. Journalism naturally draws liberals; we like to change the world. I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did. There are centrists at The Post as well. But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don’t even want to be quoted by name in a memo by Deborah Howell (Washington Post)
- Homeless in a flash, hundreds in Texas now wait for relief (NY Times)
- Metallica goes back to their metal roots (Houston Chronicle)
- Onion Nation: If its absurdist twists and wicked parodies of conventional journalism are just a joke, thecountry’s leading satirical newspaper is having the last laugh (Washington Post)
- Damien Hirst: The death of art explained by Jennifer Roche (GodSpy)
- Older singers should give the young a hand: Even modern pop songs need interpretation. Other singers may discover unexplored meaning in a lyrical thread or reveal melodic possibilities beyond the writer’s capacity as a vocalist. Performed at a different tempo, transposed to another key, given a new arrangement or sung by a gifted singer, a song takes on a new life. (Wall Street Journal)
- Boom time for barter: When money’s tight, cash-free transactions can keep you afloat (LA Times)
- Va. woman creates ministry from prison experience (UMNS)
- Lord of the outcasts: Two exceptional indie films follow the lives of young men who don’t fit in—and who suffer for it. But both meet Christ, in different ways, on the journey by Jeffrey Overstreet (Christianity Today)
- I’m still inspired by John McCain: He was right to keep Rev. Wright out of it by Robbie Cohen (Wall Street Journal)
- What’s behind the new interest in confession? Is the present increase in the popularity of the confession of sins a step toward a realistic religiosity, or is it the popularity of the penitential rite of the American Church of Christ without Christ? by Lorenzo Albacete (GodSpy)
- Both sides in the same-sex marriage controversy need to cool down: Supporters and opponents of Proposition 8 are going too far in pursuing their cause. (LA Times)
- Over the Rhine celebrates 20th anniversary, tour dates (Paste)
- Larry Norman’s street fighting gospel: Larry Norman passed away last February. He’s been called the Father of Christian Rock, a burden he refused to carry. “I think the blacks invented it about 200 years ago.” by John Murphy (GodSpy)
- “Our fans were more metal than we were”: Rob Zombie looks back on White Zombie, the old weird MTV and his new box set (Rolling Stone)
- Ex-lobbyists have key Obama roles: Some members of team shaping new administration had recent K Street ties (Washington Post)
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