March, 2009

Links for March 3rd

Seth's Blog: How big is your world?

"There's a difference between being aware of the emergency of the day and having firsthand experience and firsthand empathy for different people in different places."

tags:

africa

economic-activism

economics

activism

Links for March 2nd

The Associated Press: AP Newsbreak: CIA destroyed 92 interrogation tapes

"New documents show the CIA destroyed nearly 100 tapes of terror interrogations, far more than has previously been acknowledged." The sad thing is, people are still wondering why anyone would want people in the Bush administration tried for war crimes.

tags:

politics

Experimental Theology: Thoughts on Mark Driscoll..While I'm Knitting

Great thoughts on what Mark Driscoll is really doing when he talks about masculinity in the church. "The point of this post is that when Driscoll starts talking about gender and people start pushing back there is a lot of stuff that starts flying around: Agenic motives, gender role interests, educational fissures, power and misogyny. It all blends together in a conversational stew ostensibly about "real guys." And if we are not clear about what we are talking about we talk past each other."

tags:

gender

education

psychology

church

Kindle for people who buy books

March 2nd, 2009

When Amazon's Kindle first came out, I wasn't impressed. I thought it would certainly be annoying to read normal length books on screens.