If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? Patrick Lynch doesn't think so.
NPR gets owned for their weak and pathetic refusal to use the word "torture," because it is "loaded with political and social implications for several reasons."
"Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught."
"The earlier we experiment with and adapt new CSS3 properties, the earlier they will be supported by popular browsers and the earlier we’ll be able to use them widely."
Great thoughts on the nature of systematic theology and its tendencies. "We will most definitely find that systematic theology is often used to reinforce the status quo at the center rather than identifying with those on the margins…"
Interesting comment here that summarizes the Orthodox view of atonement. I find a lot of things in the Orthodox church that I like, or at least things where I can find resonance.
Wise thoughts on America's strategy of dealing with violence. We advocate that others use nonviolent means to bring about change, but we don't take our own advice.
"The missiologist Andrew Walls has long argued that the West has entered a post-Christendom era and that world Christianity is entering a post-Western era. Many are looking to Africa, the cradle of humanity (and to Asia and South America), for the emergence of a reformed and renewed paradigm in Christian thinking and practice."
More from Tony: "What do I do now, Master? is a question each Christ-follower should ask after the Lord brings us through a Damascus Road Experience, or any time he brings us through one chapter of our lives and into another."
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.