2012 - Page 7 of 39 - Comment Magazine

Sep 21, 2012 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 20.0

Twentieth in an expert series on must-read books.

Sep 19, 2012 Uncategorized

What Will You Be When You Grow Up?

SIX QUESTIONS . . . My goal is to leverage a renewed university culture to re-write the default perception of young adulthood in the culture at large—shifting it from a “failure to launch” critique toward a supportive nurturing of productive exploration.

Sep 17, 2012 Uncategorized

From “In Situ” Artwork to Education “In Situ”

The sequence began twenty years ago with my growing irritation with the classroom experience of projecting images of artworks on the wall . . .

Sep 14, 2012 Uncategorized

Discovering and Uncovering Truth and Beauty

SIX QUESTIONS . . . Encountering literature is a rich way in which students can enjoy God’s world, God’s gifts, and the human community, even as they learn more about themselves and their responsibilities to and for others.

Sep 12, 2012 Uncategorized

Church Practices and Public Life: The Word for the Small Congregation

The impact of famous preachers is but a drop in the proverbial bucket. It is the preaching of the countless unknown pastors that is quietly yet radically transformative.

Sep 10, 2012 Uncategorized

The Essential Story

From what stance can we call others to virtue if our vision of virtue is based on our own self-chosen Story? When someone asks, “Why should I listen to you?” or, in the language of a two-year-old, “Who made you the boss of me?” what can we say?

Sep 7, 2012 Uncategorized

The Absurdity of Reconciliation

Religion is key in the work of reconciliation precisely because when it comes to the ineffable absurdity of “why,” the state, like the three friends of Job, is better suited to silence.

Sep 5, 2012 Uncategorized

The Gospel According to Dickens

Given our tendency to read Dickens as a secular novelist, we may be surprised by how frequently Dickens does indeed speak about faith in his fiction.

Sep 3, 2012 Uncategorized

It Is No Shame to Work for Money

When it comes to compensation, how should employees and employers respond, inwardly and outwardly? What does a faithful “pay posture” look like? And what are some of the spiritual challenges associated with monetary rewards?

Aug 31, 2012 Uncategorized

Mourning A Cosmopolitan Culture: Helen Gurley Brown’s Legacy of Lies

She’s credited with single-handedly removing God, guilt, and any cultural taboo associated with sex outside of marriage. I am stunned that no one at CNN, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, or Salon has any helpful moral critique of her portrayal of what’s “good”.

Year: 2012