Karen Armstrong reviews Diarmaid MacCulloch's Silence: A Christian History: In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological
Another piece from Christianity Today: Adam Stadtmiller's article on "leading distracted people:" The issue of ministering to an overwhelmed and distracted culture is one of the greatest challenges
Richard Foster, from a 2011 interview: If superficiality is the curse of the modern age, what's the curse of the postmodern age?Distraction. With the Internet and entertainment, so
When I was interviewing people who take digital Sabbaths, one of the ways they often described themselves was as spiritual, but not particularly religious. I puzzled over this
In my last post I mentioned Christopher Jamison's short, very accessible book, Finding Sanctuary. Here's a bit more about it: No matter how hard you work, being too
Maria Konnikova, author of the soon-to-be-published book Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, has a piece in the New York Times about the benefits of mindfulness. (Clearly Viking/Penguin's
In the opening paragraph of Mystics and Zen Masters, he contrasts "the monk or the Zen man" to "people dedicated to lives that are, shall we say, aggressively
I've been neglecting this blog terribly, but for a good reason: I just finished my first month in a new job. I'm now a senior consultant at Strategic
Jenna Wortham follows up her piece on unplugging with a post on a response she found interesting: Nathan Jurgenson's argument "against fetishizing the offline and becoming obsessed —
Via Jezebel, the Times of Israel reports on one of the more interesting examples of augmented reality I've seen in a while: the Committee for Purity in the