If you are looking for a way to give to cyclone relief in Burma(Myanmar), I would encourage you to consider giving through the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, which has excellent local contacts in the country and neighboring Thailand. Monies are channeled to trusted local sources who then feed that money into local economies in…
David Brooks notes that last week’s elections here in England–which included Tory Boris Johnson being elected as Mayor of London–signals a shift in global conservatism. Britain, he suggests, is home to a new breed of conservative which has left Thatcherite econo-centrism behind, while American neoconservatism keeps looking for another Reagan. As he puts it: That…
[I’m here just mirroring my original post at Generous Orthodoxy.] So what do folks make of the recently unveiled “Evangelical Manifesto” (download the pdf)? On the one hand, I think it is in the spirit of a “generous” orthodoxy of the sort that motivated this blog from its inception. In general, I think it rightly…
I recently had the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to Brantwood, the home of John Ruskin on Lake Coniston. It was a very moving experience, and as a keepsake, I bought a copy of the Everyman’s Library edition of his autobiography, Praeterita. It opens with a fabulous meditation on just the sort of Toryism I’ve…
I once again find myself easily singing along with David Brooks in today’s column in which he extols folks like C.S. Lewis and John Ruskin. In the face of the de-humanization of industrialization and its dis-enchantment of the world, they rejected chronological snobbery and looked back to the medieval imagination for hints of an antidote….
I’m worried that it’s a tad voyeuristic, but I just love photographic features like The Guardian‘s series on “Writer’s Rooms.” And this past weekend they published a similar piece called “Night Visions” that provided a peek at some famous folks nighstands and bedside tables. Of course, one never knows how artificial these snapshots are, but…