Monthly Archives: May 2009

David Simon on the Fate of the Press

Posted on 2009/05/13 by ngilmour

This is a heck of a speech.

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Gadget Lust Again

Posted on 2009/05/12 by ngilmour

Kindle DX An e-ink reader with 3.3GB usable onboard storage, Whispernet access, and a screen big enough to take on .pdf files and native .pdf support… Mmm… bacon… Let the scoffers scoff; when this unit comes down in price, I … Continue reading →

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Monastic Poverty, Take Two

Posted on 2009/05/11 by ngilmour

My Credo: We Work I suppose it’s no surprise that I’ve not taken the time to do the calculations that Marc Bousquet did: I’m busy, after all.? Today I turn in my final grades for the semester, and between my … Continue reading →

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A Brief Thought on the Christian Standard’s Campus Ministry Issue

Posted on 2009/05/10 by ngilmour

Campus Ministers’ Interview from the Christian Standard. Last week’s Christian Standard praised the practice of campus ministry, and the centerpiece of the issue was the above group interview with veteran campus ministers. Given the reflections on campus ministry I posted … Continue reading →

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Would that my advice to my own son were this eloquent

Posted on 2009/05/09 by ngilmour

The Nietzsche Family Circus on Little League.

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CIY Revisited: A Dialogue with Slim: Part 2

Posted on 2009/05/08 by ngilmour

So there you have it: a youth volunteer’s response to CIY’s Believe! tour and a youth minister’s response.? Because we actually agreed in more places than we disagreed, let me hit those first: Nested Narratives and Late-Capitalist Storytelling Slim’s youth … Continue reading →

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CIY Revisited: A Dialogue with Slim, Part 1

Posted on 2009/05/07 by ngilmour

Before I post his text, I want to introduce you to Jim Clark.? He and I were students and for a spell roommates at Milligan College.? We were groomsmen in each other’s weddings.??? We kept going to Milligan’s guitar-and-drums Sunday … Continue reading →

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Individuals, Communities, and Other Such Fads

Posted on 2009/05/06 by ngilmour

David Brooks – The Long Voyage Home Unlike Brooks, I’m not rooting for the rising-again of the GOP so much as I dread what politics might look like should the Libertarians become the foil of the DNC.? I think that’s … Continue reading →

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The Real Face of Teen Piety

Posted on 2009/05/05 by ngilmour

Grading papers yesterday, I looked up to see a young man, perhaps sixteen years old, sit down with a group of chattering teens at McDonald’s.? (Hey, there’s free wifi, and the coffee’s cheap.)? As the others talked quickly at one … Continue reading →

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Facebook Gripe of the Day

Posted on 2009/05/04 by ngilmour

There’s no good way to choose between the impiety of refusing to be a “fan” of Jesus, the Bible, prayer, and forgiveness on one hand; and the impiety of trivializing them by becoming their “fans” on the other.

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Jumbotron Preaching

Posted on 2009/05/03 by ngilmour

Hirsch & Stetzer Discuss Multi-Site?|?Integrating Missionally – W. David Phillips. I saw this link on Tall Skinny Kiwi, and since I’ve never been in a “satellite campus” but find the phenomenon fascinating, I decided to take a look.? I think … Continue reading →

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Ability and Work, this time from Brooks

Posted on 2009/05/01 by ngilmour

Genius: The Modern View I first ran into David Brooks when I got Bobos In Paradise from QPB.? Those were the days before he became the “Red State, Blue State” guy, before he became one of the Republican pundits who … Continue reading →

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