By Steve
Wednesday July 14, 2010
- At the axis of blues, gospel and rock: Jim Fusilli talks with Robert Randolph and takes a look at his latest album, “We Walk This Road.” (Wall Street Journal)
- Green religion movement hopes spill wins converts (AP)
- In a sacred Italian race, some bristle at the prize (NY Times)
- The examined life behind bars (News Observer)
- A Hand Up: Aid for Trade in Mozambique. Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty. Cassandra Soars in Mieze, Mozambique (Christianity Today)
- Pope to create new office to fight secularization (AP)
- Engulfed: Tattoo artist finds inspiration, rage in oil spill (USA Today)
- What happened to studying? You won’t hear this from the admissions office, but college students are cracking the books less and less (Boston Globe)
- An evangelical crusade to go Green with God (NPR)
- In Peru, stones, bones, and for the main course … (NY Times)
- Is jousting the next extreme sport? (NY Times)
- Dead for a century, Twain says what he meant (NY Times)
- Redemption song: Why music is the one giant thing America has done right. Why America represents a kind of perfect storm of musical innovation: a country short on fixed traditions and long on highly mobile immigrants by Steve Almond (PopMatters)
- Mel Gibson says Viking movie (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) may be his last (LA Times)
- Jonny Lang: The ‘Kid’ at the Crossroads. After hanging with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Ron Wood, Jonny Lang returns to Minnesota looking for direction (Star Tribune)
- Promoting religious liberty. Whither the Obama administration by Doug Bandow (Huffington Post)
- Walter Hawkins, gospel singer, dies at 61 (NY Times)
- Prince of Wales counts flowers in his garden: He was once laughed at for talking to plants but that has not put off the Prince of Wales who is now also counting the flowers in his garden. (Telegraph)
- The flak over ‘The Shack’: William Paul Young’s bestselling novel about a father’s renewal of faith after suffering an unspeakable tragedy has spawned a tangle of lawsuits over royalties and even the book’s authorship. (LA Times)
- Top ten quirky local festivals: In honor of Mike the Headless Chicken (the chicken that somehow managed to live without its head for an unbelievable 18 months) Fruita, Colo., is hosting its annual festival May 14-15. To celebrate perhaps the strangest occasion for a celebration, TIME takes a look at Headless Mike and other quirky, wacky festivals worldwide (Time)
- Israeli conversion bill moves ahead, draws anger (AP)
- Seeing all your social networking in one place (Wall Street Journal)
- Inspiration behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula was ‘not all that bad and simply misunderstood’ a new exhibition has claimed (Daily Mail)
- You say God is dead? There’s an App for that (NY Times)
- Catholics express outrage as rosary beads become fashion statement (Fox)
- Belgium’s plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution… and flushed into the sewer (Daily Mail)
- A tour of clam bars (NY Times)
- Morocco: The limits of Islamic religious tolerance by Doug Bandow (Daily Caller)
- Peter Singer’s swan song: Bioethicist asks: ‘Why don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth?’ By Collin Hansen (Christianity Today)
- And Trigger, too (unfortunately). The Roy Rogers auction. (Wall Street Journal)
- Lee Rocker acquires love of Stray Cats’ hits (Chillicothe News)
- Lego enthusiast recreates MC Escher artwork: A Lego enthusiast has achieved the seemingly impossible by painstakingly recreating an “impossible construction” seen in a MC Escher masterpiece. (Telegraph)
- Harvey Pekar: An appreciation. The iconoclastic comics writer turned the mundane into ‘American Splendor.’ (LA Times)
- Scientists now say prehistoric man enjoyed 3D cinema too (Art Knowledge News)
- The Androids are coming, is aid ready? (AidWatchers)
- What is the What: Sudan, Manute Bol and activistic art (Scriptorium Daily)
- The Agnostic Cartographer: How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes. (Washington Monthly)
- Immigration reform: Another Christian view. Forging a just public policy is more complex than the public rhetoric by Alan F.H. Wisdom (Christianity Today)
- Anything but Orthodox: When the Soviet Union sank, human liberty dramatically increased. The great totalitarian tyranny that had consumed millions of its own apparatchiks and tens of millions of its other citizens was gone by Doug Bandow (Spectator)
- The 80-year hunt for ‘It’ fashions: Stores from Penney’s to Bloomingdale’s read it. How the original trend spotter got trendy again (Wall Street Journal)
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