Monthly Archives: January 2005

Here’s a great picture from an interview with Brother Andrew: On the other hand, people who naturally have a right to be suspicious of these groups, because of what they’ve done, might question whether they are just inviting you in … Continue reading →

The regime appears to be coming apart at the seams.

Joe Katzman at Winds Of Change has an interesting discussion of the role of fantasy and narcisism in modern protest culture. At one point he examines Lee Harris’s article about his protest experience during the Vietnam war era. The main … Continue reading →

I’m working my way through Samuel P. Huntington’s latest book, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Chapter 8 deals with the challenge large scale immigration poses for modern industrialized nations. Huntington identifies three possible responses to the … Continue reading →

While driving to and from Houston this weekend, I listened to Eugene Peterson’s lecture on the Christian use of Scripture, “Eat this Book.” Peterson argues for a recovery of the sovereignty of God in our approach to scripture, rejecting the … Continue reading →

Bruce Bjork of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches says: We are appalled by the idea that progressives and Christians don’t belong in the same sentence. We need not to limit moral speech but to expand it. The Religious Right … Continue reading →

Fast Company has a piece about Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book. I’ve read Tipping Point, but haven’t gotten Blink yet. Here’s how their article starts: “I really like that term ‘momentary autism,’ ” a woman says softly into the mike. She … Continue reading →

Dissent leaks out of the North.

Ali at Free Iraqi has a perceptive post on Islam and Democracy. Here’s the comment I left on his site. Ali said : What I’m trying to say is that no religion in its present form is compatible with democracy … Continue reading →

A powerful piece in the New Yorker discusses the way junior officers in particular are trying to make the Army a learning organization. One of the scholars they feature is Col. Leonard Wong, who I remember from a study he … Continue reading →