Angelo Persichilli has a great article in today’s Toronto Star about the future of nuclear energy in this country. While I don’t trust those who tell me that nuclear energy is completely safe, likewise I don’t trust those who say we have an alternative that can sustain our demands to run our businesses, our economy [...]
affluenza
The moral of the housing crisis
Michael Lewis on the sub-prime mortgage crisis The real moral is that when a middle-class couple buys a house they can’t afford, defaults on their mortgage, and then sits down to explain it to a reporter from the New York Times, they can be confident that he will overlook the reason for their financial distress: [...]
The sin of consumerism and nationalism
Rick Bennett has an excellent post on consumerism and nationalism in the church The title, which intrigues me greatly is Between Two God’s: Christianity and the Challenges of Consumerism. Rodney, like myself and a growing number of individuals, sees Consumerism as a religion, competing with Christianity for the souls of church goers. I have grown [...]
McChurch
Bill Kinnon has a great post on consumeristic church, something that Eugene Peterson compares to the anti-Christ in The Jesus Way. Bill is about as blunt as Peterson is. Consumerism in the church has been a weird topic for me the last little while. On one hand a lot of church leaders admit to me [...]
Big Box Pawn Shop
To make a long story short, we lost the battery charger for the camcorder which I want to take to Soularize so I can videotape people swimming with man-eating sharks (Spencer tells me this is safe). After thinking about getting a cheap Aiptek camera (won’t ship to Canada or even accept a Canadian billing address) [...]
Alternatives
to living in the McMansion. The micro-compact home or the Tiny Tumbleweed Housing Company which are not much smaller than my house Of course another option to sprawling burbs is living in a shipping container. I link to these because a couple of years ago Wendy brought home a magazine and it hard a feature [...]
Christianity as a "Sunday Religion"
I’d also like to argue that the mainstream of Christianity throughout the last 1,500 years, and particularly evident in the last 200 years, has been for the majority of practitioners, not a practice-oriented religion, but a Sunday religion, a religion of “do what you want as long as you subscribe to the right things and [...]
Mainstream Christianity
I’d also like to argue that the mainstream of Christianity throughout the last 1,500 years, and particularly evident in the last 200 years, has been for the majority of practitioners, not a practice-oriented religion, but a Sunday religion, a religion of “do what you want as long as you subscribe to the right things and [...]
