Laughing with the Devil: a review of “A Serious Man”
“The devil laughs because God’s world seems senseless to him; the angel laughs with joy because everything in God’s world has its meaning” Milan Kundera Humor is a funny thing. A comedian tells two jokes; he invests each with all…
Lesslie Newbigin at 100
"In the face of alarming statistics, secularist attacks, and media scaremongering, the church has an important ally in Lesslie Newbigin. His writings continue to call the church to its missionary vocation in the midst of cultural change and ideological pluralism."…
7 Deadly Sins – The Journal
The All Saints journal project on the Seven Deadly Sins arrives next Sunday (December 13). This 24 page digest explores each of the sins as we considered them together over the fall through original photography and writing. The journal…
How fantastic is it?
What is a hipster? Is it people who read McSweeney’s? Listen to Brooklyn-based bands? Wear their suits cut just a little tight (preferably tailored by Band of Outsiders)? Or is it the new addition to the Wes Anderson canon of…
Coming in February
A couple of weeks ago Greg mentioned that Ralph Wood is planning to speak at our 2010 Growth in Grace Conference. Wood is currently a professor at Baylor and brings many years of expert experience to the topic of literature…
The wealth of the kingdom
"I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow-minded. How to explain it? Here's how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness they take the most immediate and secondary causes…