March 2011
1 post
“The language of worldview tend to imply, to paraphrase the Catholic writer...”
– Andy Crouch, Culture Making, pg. 64
February 2011
1 post
“Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because...”
– Paul Graham - “Hackers and Painters”
November 2010
1 post
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March 2010
1 post
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that...”
– G.K. Chesterton
January 2009
1 post
“Control of attention is the ultimate individual power. People who can do that...”
– David Brooks
August 2008
1 post
March 2008
1 post
December 2007
2 posts
Begging the question →
Please, please, for the love of all that is holy, stop misuing this phrase.
“An ancient axiom of politics teaches that a spoiled people invite despotic...”
– Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
November 2007
3 posts
“Your theology will not always move you in the direction of obedience because...”
– Paul Tripp
“Wer spricht mit mir ist mein Mitmensch; wer singt mit mir ist mein Bruder. The...”
– German Proverb
“Oh, if I could only pray the way this dog watches the meat! All his thoughts are...”
– Martin Luther
October 2007
4 posts
Re4mation TheoLOLgians →
The latest in Fred Sander’s LOLCats parodies. Brilliant. Check out the whole series.
“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and...”
– G. K. Chesterton
August 2007
1 post
June 2007
0 posts
WatchSufjan Stevens playing “The Lakes of Canada”. HT: Steve McCoy
May 2007
4 posts
April 2007
15 posts
“Americans love junk. It’s not the junk that bothers me, it’s the love.”
– George Santayana
“The long process of human development will have been for nought if mankind does...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Rebuilding Russia
“Political activity is by no means the principal mode of human life, and politics...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Rebuilding Russia
“All babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the...”
– Billy Collins
"Cho wanted to leave an indelible image, but the... →
“Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper— metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.” Dana Gioia, “Words”
“When I first began to travel the world, visiting rich and poor countries alike,...”
– E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
“What is quite clear is that a way of life that bases itself on materialism, i.e....”
– E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
“A hero is the one who does what he can. The others do not.”
– Romain Rolland
“Several years ago, in a book called The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,...”
– Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“…true is, that true love hath no power To looken back; his eyes be fixt...”
– Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queen, I, iii, 30