A recent Gallup-Purdue survey 0f more than 30,000 college graduates explored connections between education and workplace engagement and well-being. The former combined job satisfaction with intellectual and emotional connection to the people and places of employment while the latter encompassed the . . . . Continue Reading »
The autonomous person, liberated from the constraints of the past and free perhaps even from the stigma of social disapproval of his chosen lifestyle, has become the new god of the Canadian civil religion, almost totally eclipsing whatever communitarian elements have managed to survive the cultural shifts of recent decades. Continue Reading »
John Murdock’s “A Crash Course in Q” was an intriguing piece with one big weakness. Though Murdock’s critique resonated with many of my own reservations about how we frame Christian engagement with culture (including conference-culture), my experience of Q is completely vicarious, so modesty requires me to withhold or temper my own evaluation of the conference. But my experience of the fault lines that Murdock highlights for us is more extensive and direct. I see in them a much bigger challenge than Murdock’s essay suggests. Continue Reading »
“Screw it, Just Canonize Them All,” the Vatican Says
Eye of the Tiber
‘Hallowed Be Your Name’: Why Prayer Can Never Simply Be Private
Matthew Anslow, ABC Religion and Ethics
Perfectibilists
Joshua Glenn, HiLoBrow
Scavenger Cities
Chris White, Atlas Obscura
Barbarism with a Human Face
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books
Marilynne Robinson repeats the conclusion that Jesus had nothing to say about homosexuality. But that conclusion severs the connection between Jesus and his specially commissioned apostolic witnesses. Continue Reading »
The theme of Mad Men Episode Four (“The Monolith”), with its brazen referentiality to 2001: A Space Odyssey, was “Progress: Its Nature and Consequences.”Now in the third week of his restoration to Sterling, Cooper & Partners, Don arrives one morning to find the office . . . . Continue Reading »
In his interview with Commonweal editors Matthew Boudway and Grant Gallicho, Cardinal Walter Kasper speaks eloquently about mercy. He applies it to the question of whether divorced and remarried Catholics should be allowed to receive the Eucharist, and the answer he arrives at is yes, under certain conditions. Continue Reading »
I Don’t Care Much About the Pope
Leah Libresco, Patheos
On Dignity and Evangelization
Matthew Dugandzic, Ethika Politika
Impact of War Losing Its Effect on Youth
Olga Kalashnikova, the St. Petersburg Times
Sociology in Fantasia
Bryan Alexander, Reason
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World: An Interview
Notes on Arab Orthodoxy
Evangelicals and Catholics Together Marks 20 Years
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service
Farmers: This Lady Wants Your Bones
Jesse Hirsch, Modern Farmer
Under the Volcano
Anthony Bourdain
The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz
Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek
Why Jews and Ukrainians Have Become Unlikely Allies
Josh Cohen, Foreign Policy
Greg, as always, thanks for taking the time to engage. As I read him, Dawson is not singling out a particular socio-economic class and neither am I. As a long-term member, I have a vested interest in the middle class. This seems to be a common interpretation of Dawson’s critique and much of . . . . Continue Reading »
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