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The out-sourced brain

October 28, 2007 3 Comments

David Brooks has a provocative column this week on the effect of technology on human memory. Are we outsourcing our own thinking? Brooks seems to think so. According to Brooks, “the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants — silicon memory systems, collaborative online filters, consumer preference algorithms and networked knowledge. We can burden these servants and liberate ourselves.”

Ministers’ Manifesto

October 28, 2007 No Comments

Fifty years ago this coming week, eighty white members of the Atlanta clergy issued a manifesto on race relations. Read fifty years later, the manifesto seems mild. At the time, however, it was viewed as a revolutionary document that resulted in more than one death threat.

Let’s see who salutes

October 28, 2007 2 Comments

The Sunday Telegraph reports on an idea as if it is fact. The idea is that foreign bishops would be allowed to intervene in dioceses

Christology, the emerging church and engagement

October 27, 2007 No Comments

Maggi Dawn has an interesting post that starts off addressing questions about Christology and the emerging church, and how the latter has received some criticism for not having enough of the former. She goes on from there, however, to address how we as Christians engage the non-Christian world we often find ourselves living in.

For the Bible Tells Me So

October 27, 2007 2 Comments

For the Bible Tells Me So, a documentary by Daniel Karlsake about conservative Christian families coming to terms with their children’s homosexuality, had its Washington premier last night. The movie features interviews with Bishop Gene Robinson and his parents. Find out more about the film here.

Tobias Haller on True Union

October 27, 2007 No Comments

Tobias Haller is in the midst of a writing an intellectually rigorous, yet stylistically accesible defense of same-sex relationships. It’s must reading for anyone who argues on behalf of the full sacramental inclusion of gays and lesbians in the life of the Church. Parts one through six are available here.

Loyalists in Network dioceses seek assistance

October 27, 2007 1 Comment

Loyalist Episcopalians in dioceses affiliated with the Anglican Communion Network feel isolated and lack access to important information to help them plan for their future, said Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies, during brief introductory remarks to Executive Council, Oct. 26 in Dearborn, Michigan. Many of the questions relate to how these persons will remain connected if their dioceses realize plans to disaffiliate from The Episcopal Church.

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The out-sourced brain

Ministers’ Manifesto

Let’s see who salutes

Christology, the emerging church and engagement

For the Bible Tells Me So

Tobias Haller on True Union

Loyalists in Network dioceses seek assistance

Provoked

The Anglican Global South: a portrait

Taking a stand … in the middle of the road

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