2012 - Page 10 of 39 - Comment Magazine

Jul 13, 2012 Book Review

The Basis for (Im)morality: Disgusting Intuitions or Intuitive Disgust?

After his pricey Western education, Jonathan Haidt was offended by the morals of his hosts in rural India. Yet his silence was rewarded by a glimpse at different, daresay equal moral convictions.

Jul 11, 2012 Uncategorized

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

The modern student too often emerges with his world having been flattened and faded gray, his passion reduced to sexuality, and his curiosity transmogrified into occupational hoop-jumping.

Jul 9, 2012 Uncategorized

Church Practices and Public Life: Recovering the Practice of Communal Singing

Could joining our voices together help us reinvigorate our social and political culture?

Jul 6, 2012 Uncategorized

The Untamed Word

Certainly, we must read the Bible with the larger church, and any radical departure from the broad sense of the faithful through the ages is a red flag for interpreters. But Wright’s picture of Jesus suggests that we must always be ready for God in Christ Jesus to speak to his church anew, even if he speaks sometimes against his church.

Jul 4, 2012 Uncategorized

Pointing to the Good

SIX QUESTIONS . . . My awareness of the tremendous importance of education policy and regulation is developing and I look forward to becoming more practiced in designing, proposing, and advocating for better educational alternatives.

Jul 3, 2012 Uncategorized

Church Practices and Public Life: The Thickness of Fasting

Like other ancient Christian practices, fasting has cosmic implications. It not only has wisdom for our public life, it is wisdom embodied as our public life.

Jun 29, 2012 Book Review

Life-Long Learners 18.0

Eighteenth in an expert series on must-read books.

Jun 27, 2012 Uncategorized

Cultivating a Shelter

SIX QUESTIONS . . . What we are cultivating, with God’s help, is drawing a wide range of people closer to God in the breadth of their lives.

Jun 25, 2012 Uncategorized

Church Practices and Public Life: A Global Feast

First in Comment’s “church practices and public life” series. The biblical story of food can be summarized in its chief emblem. The history of the world from creation to consummation is enacted in the process of making bread.

Jun 22, 2012 Uncategorized

The Possibility of History to Continue

“Progress” is the buzzword of our time. Anyone wondering what “progress” entails, but does not wish to wade through Kant, Hegel, or Nietzsche, will benefit from Tom Darby’s new and very funny novel, Disorderly Notions.

Year: 2012