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Jun 26, 2009

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A summer feast of books

Byron Borger is a small-town bookseller with a mail-order business, especially for students and those involved with campus life. Borger’s picks are more accessible “starters” for those who, as he puts it, “haven’t quite learned to swim in the deeper waters of academia and the formation of the Christian mindset.” Help yourself to a new approach this summer!

Nails, Sand and Memory

Jun 19, 2009

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Nails, Sand and Memory

As an artist and graphic artist, I have long lived with an increasing sense of unease. The daily requirements of work and thought devoted to the sale of products in the advertising industry had over time sharpened my sensitivity to a kind of cultural intoxication. The...

Jun 19, 2009

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Original mysteries

Why are Christians so resolutely locked into combative camps about human origins, closed to serious dialogue with one another? This makes it difficult for us to seriously consider scientific discoveries about the natural world alongside the Bible as the trustworthy story of God.

Jun 19, 2009

The solace of asparagus

Any time I’m in the kitchen I’m only seconds away from disaster—and yet, despite the rough-draft quality of some meals, I’m always trying to communicate through the language of food, simply, “I care about you.”

Jun 19, 2009

Week of June 14, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Comment friends Rob and Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma are touring Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa,...

Berge Blaas Blomme

Jun 12, 2009

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Berge Blaas Blomme

In early 2008, micro-electrodes implanted in Zak Benjamin's brain relieved the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. Zak regained his mobility. The burden of his second chance weighed heavily, and it was difficult to start work again.An Oprah show, where a husband and wife...

Jun 12, 2009

Week of June 7, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Comment passes its deepest regrets to the family of Gerald Folkerts, renowned Winnipeg artist,...

Jun 12, 2009

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Thoughts on executive pay and income inequality

Does an economic system that bases compensation on productivity, leading to a huge income gap, meet the test of basic fairness and justice? Or are we seeing—like the Boston Red Sox destroying a local Little League team—unfair and predetermined outcomes?