Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, who created the “social role valorization” (SRV) concept, has died. From a death announcement published in the NDIS Good for People With Disablities blog:Dr Wolfensberger had a strong commitment to people made vulnerable in a society where individualism, . . . . Continue Reading »
“Find the good and praise it,” was the motto of novelist Alex Haley—and advice that I wish I would follow. Instead, I have tendency—like most pundits—of finding the bad and lamenting it. That is especially true when it comes to pop culture. The opportunities for . . . . Continue Reading »
He was an aristocratic Brit, kidnapped by pirates at the age of sixteen and sent to Ireland where he was sold into slavery. Six years later he escapes, becomes a priest, returns to Ireland, and faces off against hordes of Druids. Because of his work, thousands of Irish pagans came to know Christ . . . . Continue Reading »
Rob Bell’s Love Wins—and the PR leading up to its release—ignited perhaps the greatest storm of theological debate today’s Internet-focused church has ever seen (that same church being woefully unaware of anything preceding the Internet; but that’s another topic).And then . . . . Continue Reading »
And then there were 32. [caption id=”attachment_14086” align=”alignright” width=”150” caption=”Click to Download Round 2 Brackets”] [/caption] After a brutal round of upsets, blowouts, and close calls we have narrowed our list of 64 in half. . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend whose birthday fell on 9/11 spent a few years worrying about his parties. Was it in bad taste to party on a day so many were mourning?Some people are odious by ignoring national or global pain. Other folk are the false messianic types that try to bear the weight of the world’s evils . . . . Continue Reading »
From the story:Almost a third of NHS staff say basic hygiene supplies such as hot water and soap are not always available when they need them, according to a comprehensive survey of the workforce. A similar proportion said they would not be happy with the standard of care provided by their hospital . . . . Continue Reading »
Do Top 100 Books polls and charts agree on a set of classics? To find out, David McCandless scraped the results of more than a dozen notable book polls, readers surveys, and top 100 lists. He then used a simple frequency analysis on the gathered titles to create a ‘consensus cloud’ . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent piece for Religion & Liberty, a publication of the Acton Institute, I took on an analysis inspired by Bill Buckley’s old contention that the struggles between atheism and Christianity and socialism versus capitalism were ultimately the same conflict. While I . . . . Continue Reading »
John Dyer’s article on how social media changed theological debate touches on one of the reasons I’m generally hesitant to write about theology: Throughout the history of public theological debate, there was one constant—those debates only took place between a few select . . . . Continue Reading »
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