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November 2014

November 20, 2014

Can You Vandalize Vandalism? Imagine Lennon’s Wall

One of the popular tourist sites in Prague is the so-called Lennon's Wall. I stopped...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

What We Learn from Pumpkin Spice Lattes

We're having a nice cool week here in New York, the kind that reminds you...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Rituals of Embodied (Coffee)

Over at Front Porch Republic, David Walbert wrote about rituals of embodiedness - prompted by...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

The Creative Pair

We often think of creative geniuses - but what about creative genius pairs? The latest issue...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Confessions of a Christian Film Critic

I'm a Christian and a film critic, so I found myself nodding along the whole...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Sitting at the SXSW Table

Some of my friends from Fuller Theological Seminary were at the South by Southwest Festival...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Feminism, Depravity, and House of Cards

Whether or not you're one of the many Americans who's been spending an outsize amount...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

What’s Good – and Not – About ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’

Last Friday, I published a piece on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire at Christianity Today that garnered a...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

What GIRL MOST LIKELY Teaches Us About Our Heritage

Last weekend I reviewed the new film Girl Most Likely, starring Kristen Wiig (of Saturday Night Live and Bridesmaids...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

Being Formed By Your Commute?

There's an interesting piece by Dan King over at The High Calling about how "going...

June 13, 2013

Before Midnight: A Different Understanding of Love

Before Midnight, the third film in the "Before" trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (which...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

The New Legalism?

My colleague Anthony Bradley and I have offices a few doors down from each other....

May 17, 2013

Gatsby, Draper, and Where Freedom Really Lies

This week I co-wrote and published a piece over at Christianity Today on Jay Gatsby and...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Learning a New Language

There's an interesting piece in The Curator about our new brains---new, that is, because of technology---and...

April 16, 2013

Reading More Carefully

I don't know about you, but sometimes I find that there's way too much to read---on...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Got a Few Extra Days With Nothing To Do? How About Waiting in Line for an iPhone 5!

Last night, I was walking along Fifth Avenue in New York. As I came upon...

September 14, 2012

New York Limits Big Drinks . . . What’s Next?

As expected, the New York City Board of Health approved the recommendation of Mayor Michael...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Sometimes the Headlines Add to My Confusion

The following headlines appeared a few minutes ago on my iPad: Hmmm. Anybody else confused?...

July 2012

July 12, 2012

Money and Happiness: Surprising Connections

Does money buy happiness? If you're like me, you feel moral compulsion to say "No,...

July 09, 2012

Should We Be Motivated By Passion? Or Duty?

In the last couple of months, in graduation speeches across this country, graduates were exhorted...

June 2012

June 13, 2012

Do We Have a Leadership Problem? Or a Follower Problem? Or Both?

"I don’t know if America has a leadership problem; it certainly has a followership...

June 12, 2012

Getting Wise About Facebook

Bill Keller, op-ed columnist for and former executive editor of The New York Times, has...

June 05, 2012

Should We Ban Big Drinks? The Los Angeles Times Wisely Weighs In

A few days ago, I put up a post concerning the effort of New York...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke

If you're as old as I am, you might remember the 1971 advertisement featuring the...

May 31, 2012

Coke Fires Back at Mayor Bloomberg

In response to the effort of Mayor Bloomberg of New York City to ban the...

May 31, 2012

Sorry, Sugar!

Sugar has been in the news recently, and it hasn't been tasty. The big headline...

May 30, 2012

Technology: When Great Ideas Have Less-Than-Great Consequences

Matt Ritchel, one of my favorite New York Times writers, has a new article entitled...

May 09, 2012

Recommendations for a Nation of Heretics

In my last post, I began to comment on Ross Douthat's new book, Bad Religion:...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them? Really! No Joke.

"If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them?" No, that's not a joke or a...

April 24, 2012

Is Texting Ruining Our Relationships?

Yes, according to Sherry Turkle, psychologist and professor at M.I.T. and the author several books,...