One of my favorite websites in the past year has been ProfHacker, a multi-author blog for the college or university professor (and mostly aimed at the adjunct or junior faculty member). The blog covers pedagogy, productivity, technology tools, and other … Continue reading →

  Sometimes we encounter new swaths of life that are surprising and unexpected. That’s how I felt when I read “The Listener,” an article about nighttime radio host, George Noory, in the January/February issue of The Atlantic. According to author … Continue reading →

  “When you cut off the arterial blood to an organ, the organ dies. When you cut the flow of nature into people’s lives their spirit dies.” So says Adbusters “Ecopsychology” issue (on newsstands this week.) It’s easy for me … Continue reading →

Freshly back from God and the Global Economy, the mind is abuzz with economics, politics and ways of integral living. A few takeaways: Paul Mills, on capital markets and a breathtaking Biblical critique of modern interest practice Jonathan Wellum, on … Continue reading →

During this past season of Lent I found myself in an engaging group study of Sara Miles’ Take This Bread at a Disciples of Christ congregation in Tennessee. Working through Miles’ story of conversion to the Christian faith through the … Continue reading →

The Chronicle had a piece on Friday called “Bad Writing and Bad Thinking“: By writing prose that is nearly unintelligible not just to the general public, but also to graduate students and fellow academics in your discipline, you are not … Continue reading →

  Toronto Fashion Week wrapped up at the start of April. If you’re to believe some media reports, says the Toronto-based F List, the best of Canada isn’t at LG Fashion Week at all. It’s at Holt Renfrew, Canada’s chi-chi … Continue reading →

Last fall some friends and I wrote an open letter signed by a variety of prominent evangelicals calling people of faith everywhere to respond to the papal encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. That cycle has taken on a life of its … Continue reading →

In that “other magazine I edit,” I published an article on Friday about the problem with Twilight: The problem with Edward and Bella—and most other surfacing stories of the undead—is that the seductiveness of the vampire is glorified, not condemned. … Continue reading →

I’ve always taken a keen interest in both the reading and crafting of books. Here at Cardus we have also been conducting experiments with super fast on-demand publishing via the Espresso 2.0 machine at McMaster. Given the contrast of traditional … Continue reading →