Dec 11, 2009

Stop What You’re Doing And Watch This: Classically-trained thespian and Royal Shakespeare Company alum Brian Cox guides 2-year-old Theo through Hamlet’s “to be, or not to be” soliloquy.

Dec 10, 2009

How is Abraham's attempting to sacrifice Isaac praiseworthy? How is it any kind of moral example, and what does the command say about God?

Dec 9, 2009

Could it be that something most of us enjoy so much might be actually pagan in origin? Most people are aware that the Christmas tree came to America with immigrants from Germany, but just where did the Christmas tree originate? Are its origins to be found in paganism?

Dec 8, 2009

Orthodoxy is a religion of memory, but conservative America (rightly reacting to statism) is dedicated to nostalgia. The past is framed with a sentimental, hallmark peachy filter, where the blemishes and moles are airbrushed away. Nothing happens in the past of nostalgia, except a succession of Norman Rockwell prints. The whole montage is narrated by the whisky voice of Thornton's Our Town narrator: birth, youth, romance and marriage, hearth and home and death. Stephen Foster sings offstage.

Dec 7, 2009

How to protect your ideas in a world where ideas spread? Don’t. Instead, spread them. Build a reputation as someone who creates great ideas.