The Wing-Beat

It’s old news, except in the mainstream. The Associated Press Story ran in the Cox newspapers this week. Donald Miller wrote Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality about five years ago. It’s selling like hotcakes (I-Pods?) and has been for some time. He is not alone in wanting a culturally relevant Christianity that repudiates exclusivism and judgmentalism, rules, hard-shell traditions that don’t promote the Christ-life for all people. Read more…

From “Goodbye to All That,” by Steve Wasserman www.cjr.org/cover_story/goodbye_to_all_that_1.php

– on troubling changes in the culture of literacy:

The “most troubling crisis is the sea change in the culture of literacy itself, the degree to which our overwhelmingly fast and visually furious culture renders serious reading increasingly irrelevant, hollowing out the habits of attention indispensable for absorbing long-form narrative and the following of sustained argument.” Read more…