The Last Real Evangelical: Evangelist Billy Graham
Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel White / MelWhite.org1 WN: On the day of Billy Graham’s death (February 21, 2018), I posted a critical commentary on Graham. Today I post a positive reflection by Mel White, who counted Graham as a […]
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
No matter what anyone tells you, we’re not ready for the massive societal upheavals on the way. This story is part of the March/April 2018 Issue of the magazine pictured. See the rest of the issue Subscribe February 21, 2018 A View from Kai-Fu Lee excerpts: The rise of China as an AI superpower […]
Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear
February 21, 2018 byCecil Bothwell Photo above by Richard Bromley | CC BY 2.0 [NOTE: For a differing view with my reflection on it, please also see my February 23, 2018 post about Billy Graham.] WN: Billy Graham’s passing (February 21, 2018) will occasion countless eulogies the world over; he will be touted as the […]
The Christ Hymn
The above is powerful/deeply moving/glorious/spine-tingling… The Christ Hymn from Colossians 1:15-20 (Common English Bible): The Son is the image of the invisible God, the one who is first over all creation, Because all things were created by him: both in the heavens and on the earth, the things that are visible and the things that […]
Hostiles
Does the latest revisionist western get it right or wrong? Vic Thiessen Media Matters February 16, 2018 excerpts: The new revisionist western by Scott Cooper hasn’t been wowing either critics or audiences. A glacially paced old-fashioned epic full of predictable violence, Hostiles has been criticized for its failed attempts at political correctness, its poor character […]
Meet a True Story
Plough Quarterly magazine 15: Staying Human Feature by Michael T. McRay Technology feeds our insatiable hunger for stories, but fails to satisfy our need for human connection. A boom in live storytelling could be changing that. excerpts: When I moved to Ireland for graduate school in 2012, Pádraig Ó Tuama, a leader of the Corrymeela […]
The Land of No Men: Inside Kenya’s Women-Only Village
WN: These are fascinating stories of Kenyan villages where women are in charge. You may notice they are a tad biased against men… One wonders why… Just as of course one cannot imagine why there is bias against white men who have the “burden” to “take care”of their “lesser brethren” when all they offer is […]
Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism
by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney (Nov 01, 2003) photo above: The Moro Massacre (March 9, 1906): Phillipines – emblematic of the real meaning of “the white man’s burden” WN: The “white man’s burden” has ever been the white man’s horror, or the white man’s alibi, or the white man’s curse, or the […]
The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism
Posted on July 21, 2015 by christian hegemony Challenging Christian Hegemony Practical tools for recognizing and resisting Christian dominance WN: Every time I read an essay so well presented as that highlighted below (and so beyond tragic!), as a committed follower of Jesus, I know that I don’t have to wear the blame, but I […]