Posted in Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, tagged al qaeda, iran, iraq, odierno, petraeus, Terrorism on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Wondering why there has not been much news on Iraq lately? While General David Petraues’ new position over the Middle East is probably not seen as big news here, I bet our Islamic terrorist enemies in the region are paying attention.
Below is a summary of Petraeus’ new duties, from an article with great analysis [...]
Posted in Election, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged Election, obama, race, wright on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Byron York answers the question here on National Review Online. These excerpts describe the heart of the matter:
“Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls,” Wright told the Press Club. “Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors. . . . I do [...]
Posted in Election, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged Generations, obama, sowell, wright on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Everyone should have their own Board of Advisors, gained by seeking out the most knowledgeable and proven voices available in the public square. One of the great contributions of the Internet is that it elevates new voices, and it amplifies proven ones.
Thomas Sowell is such a voice. A brilliant economist and political philosopher, he is [...]
Posted in Election, Worldview, tagged lowry, obama, race, wright on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Rich Lowry offers (as always) worthwhile insights on the origins of Rev. Wright’s worldview in his Townhall.com column. Key paragraphs:
Obama and Wright thus slander both the black community and black church. As Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center reports in the latest National Review, Trinity United Church of Christ “is arguably [...]
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Sports on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
So the Redskins actually participated in the NFL Draft this year. Is the sky falling?
Not yet anyway. And we may have Joe Gibbs to thank for that. When Dan Snyder was asked what he learned from Gibbs in the past three years, he said “Great patience.” When I heard him say that, it sounded genuine [...]
Posted in Christianity, Marriage & Family on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
A quote worthy of our attention and deep meditation, from a forthcoming book by John Piper:
The most fundamental task of a mother and father is to show God to the
children. Children know their parents before they know God. This is a
huge responsibility and should cause every parent to be desperate for
God-like transformation. The children will [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Worldview on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
THE MESSAGE: A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE
As Steven Pinker noted in The Stuff of Thought, “The nature of reality does not dictate the way that reality is represented in people’s minds…And the ability to frame an event in alternative ways is…the source of the richness of human intellectual life.” When we consider the Christian message and [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Worldview on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
THE MEDIUM: A NATURAL PERSPECTIVE
Marshall McLuhan has provided a very helpful framework for evaluating the impact of any new medium that arrives on the cultural scene. He posited a tetrad, a set of four verifiable questions that reveal the cultural impact of any communication innovation. These questions include:
What does this new medium enhance or intensify?
What [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Worldview on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
“The medium is the message.” The phrase is pregnant with meaning. It arose from decades of study by Marshall McLuhan into the nature of communication and its impact on culture. As his insights deepened, he adapted his famous phrase to say, “The medium is the massage,” and “The medium is the mass age.”
I was [...]
Posted in Christianity, Worldview on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I have entered The Medium Is The Mass Sage (above) to the Evangelical Outpost essay contest here. It’s nearly 5,000 words, way too long for a blog post or 3. Here it is the PDF.
