Monthly Archives: May 2009
The Link 5.29.09: Mat Kearney’s Music, Bill Clinton’s Life, and Marley (and Me)
1. Musician Mat Kearney has a new album out, City of Black and White. Upon hearing the incredible first single, “Closer to Love”, I immediately downloaded the whole thing. It’s well worth the price. Kearney, a self-identified Christian, has made … Continue reading
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The Harvard Happiness Study: Or, The Evasive Presence of Happiness in a Sinful World
Found this engrossing article, entitled “What Makes Us Happy”, in The Atlantic. It covers the 75-year-old Harvard happiness study, one of the longest-lasting and most important of modern psychology. In it, the author, Joshua Wolf Shenk, makes this noteworthy point: … Continue reading
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Shopwork in a World of Cubicles
Found a great article called “The Case for Working with Your Hands” from the NYT magazine (Photo by Alec Soth for Magnum Photos). The author, Matthew Crawford, attained a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and went to … Continue reading
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Newsflash: Modern Women Are Unhappy
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has just penned a provocative piece called “Liberated and Unhappy” that briefly analyzes a new study entitled “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness” by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers. Here’s what Douthat says … Continue reading
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The Link 5.22.09: Missions as Business, Praise Factory, and Over the Rhine
1. I’ve mentioned Access Partners before, but I want to point you to a moving video that outlines what they do. Really exciting to see Christians developing new ways to push the gospel. 2. Connie Dever of Capitol Hill Baptist … Continue reading
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John Calvin Was a Pastor-Theologian
But don’t take my word for it, take W. Robert Godfrey’s: “Many approach Calvin first of all as a theologian, and he certainly was a great theologian. But his theology emerged out of his own spiritual journey and struggles. In … Continue reading
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Mohler on Christianity: Modernity Demands a Defense
Found this brilliant quotation in Al Mohler’s essay “Modern Theology: The Disappearance of Hell” in the noteworthy book Hell Under Fire, edited by Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson: “Modern secularism demands that anyone who would speak for God must now … Continue reading
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The Link 5.15.09: Star Trek’s Power, Carson on TGC, and the Millionaire Tire-Changer
1. Caught a great cultural insight in Anthony Lane’s hilarious New Yorker review of the new Star Trek movie: “[J. J. Abrams] is the perfect purveyor of fictions to a generation so easily and instinctively jaded that what it craves, … Continue reading
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