Are There Any Books You Revere?
My newest post from the Emerging Scholars Blog. Is it possible to love a book like we love another person?
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A great summary of my own feelings, from Tim Stafford.
Vote, but Don’t Stop There
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From my post today on the Emerging Scholars Blog:
Here’s the thing, though: voting is about the smallest thing you can do to contribute to the well-being of your community. It’s important, for sure, and I vote in every election — national, state, and local. But the act of voting, and even the political process that it’s part of, is only one element of civic life.
Stewardship, Membership, and Voting: Reflections on Wendell Berry’s A Place on Earth
Recent Writing: Breaking Bad, Asher Lev, and More
Here are some of my publications from the past few months.
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- Breaking Bad and the psalmic value of villains – What can a high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin remind us about Biblical truth?
Emerging Scholars Blog
- Calling, Vocation, and Asher Lev – Lessons on vocation from Chaim Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev
- Best Books on Calling and Vocation? – A few of my choices, with some much better choices added in the comments by Gideon Strauss, Byron Borger, Michael Schutt, and others
- How Open Should You Be About Your Faith…at a Christian College? – An ESN member asks about being forthright when her theology doesn’t exactly match that of a college that’s interviewing her.
- James S. Bielo’s Words Upon the Word – My chapter-by-chapter review of Bielo’s excellent book, an ethnography of evangelical small group Bible studies in Lansing, Michigan
Casting the Dark Gilligan’s Island
The three-hour tour has not been kind to Gilligan…
Isn’t the world ready for a remake of Gilligan’s Island? Not just any remake, either, but a dark remake, along the lines of Battlestar Galactica or Christopher Nolan’s Batman. Here’s who I would cast:
- Gilligan: Christian Bale, at his Machinist weight
- The Skipper: Jeff Bridges
- The Professor: Russell Crowe – as time progresses, the Professor can sink into A Beautiful Mind-style psychosis
- Mary Ann: Natalie Portman
- Ginger: Christina Hendricks
- Thurston P. Howell III: Frank Langella
- Mrs. Howell: Helen Mirren, though I’m not sure the world is ready for a Mrs. Howell who looks good in a bikini
- Bonus! Harlem Globetrotters: the Miami Heat
Who would you cast in the dark remake of Gilligan’s Island?
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