Starting by drawing a distinction between “crackers” (who break into things) and “hackers” (who try to create new unexpected things) a Jesuit priest writing in
“On Monday it’s at Living Free Ministries. Tuesdays it’s Foote Street Church of Christ. Wednesdays it’s a Bible study at Crosswind Ministry.”
In recent decades, there has been “a precipitous decline in attendance” at art museums, plays, operas, dance performances, and concerts of both jazz and classical music. According to National Endowment for the Arts statistics, classical music attendance has declined at a 29 percent rate since 1982, with the steepest drop occurring form 2002 to 2008.
David Malouf: “The good life, it seems, is not enough. We have nothing to complain of, we are “happy enough”; but we are not quite happy. We are still, somehow, unsatisfied, and this dissatisfaction, however vaguely conceived, is deeply felt.” Why?
Just a friendly reminder from your Café staff on this the Eve of the first Sunday in Lent. In most parts of the continental United
But what a difference the vast change in public opinion in 35 years makes.
Seven in 10 Americans say religion is losing its influence on American life — one of the highest such responses in Gallup’s 53-year history
The Anglican Church of Canada files a report of its efforts to stem the tide of suicide among youth, especially in Aboriginal communities.
In many of these respects, Americans are the most “extreme” Westerners, especially young ones. And educated Americans are even more extremely WEIRD than uneducated ones. “The fact that WEIRD people are the outliers in so many key domains of the behavioral sciences may render them one of the worst subpopulations one could study for generalizing about Homo sapiens,” the authors conclude.
A wordless three-month performance piece at the Museum of Modern Art says an awful lot about our hunger for contact.