The Archive
Author: Jim Naughton
A visual poem from Radiolab
Andrew Sulllivan named this wonderful video from Radiolab and NPR as his “mental health break” of the year. What makes is so beautiful and so haunting?
Assorted updates from abroad
The court found that “the call to hang gays in dozens tends to tremendously threaten their right to human dignity” and that the tabloid’s act “threaten the rights of the applicants to privacy of the person and their home.”
Class decides whether professor will donate a kidney
Most college students write papers and read academic journals as class assignments. But how often does 5 percent of a final grade depend on deciding the fate of the professor’s internal organs?
Cutié’s new book is critical of Catholic Church
In a controversial book being released Tuesday, Roman Catholic-turned-Episcopal priest Alberto Cutié lashes out against his former church, calling it “misogynistic,” ‘‘disconnected” and an “institution that continues to promote old ideas.”
A united church
Brought together by a power higher than our own, we find ourselves on the virgin soil of this new continent, the representatives of numerous nationalities of the old world. Our childhood, boyhood, manhood, early training, and later education have been widely different, and the associations, modes of thought and local surroundings of each individual have not been without their influence in the formation of our character as a Church.
Christmas in the UK
I’ve been in the UK this Christmas. I arrived just before the snowfall that closed Heathrow for several days and just after massive student demonstrations protesting the rise in student tuition fees. Britain is considered a secular culture these days, which makes it intriguing to see how much religion appears in the media.
If Christ be born within
Is thy heart athirst to know
That the King of heaven and earth
Deigns to dwell with man below,
Yea, hath stoop’d to mortal birth?
Search the Word with ceaseless care
Till thou find this treasure there.
Haiti, almost a year after
Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and the location of the largest Episcopal diocese was devastated by an earthquake on Jan 12, 2010.
Resolutions for 2011?
Kathleen Parker lists her resolutions for the coming year, but instead of listing ones specifically for 2011, she lists her timeless ones. She calls it a sort of “Eat, Pray, Love 2.0”.