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Week of February 28, 2010
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Comment favourites Steven Garber and Andi Ashworth are coming up soon on the new Cardus toy Cardus Audio. Released today: "Faith in the Age of the iPod" by Dr. Vincent Miller, an account of how capitalism commodifies faith, and how we can be active participants in, not just passive consumers of, culture.
. . . A new, free web-based tool to mix words and images, make connections and share ideas. Check out Prezi, reviewed by Milton Friesen here.
. . . Finally, on Cardus After Hours, a guided tour through dead malls: physical infrastructure that emptily echoes what we once thought was important.
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Equivocation, set in 1606 London, shortly after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, suggests that history is a version of truth told by the winners.
Our technology can make us more vulnerable in natural disasters, but it can also make us safer, as we develop new methods of prediction and better defenses.
Social justice initiatives can actually treat people as less-than-full human beings—which is, in a word, unjust. Thinking and speaking differently can change our effectiveness in helping people in need.
I saw a particular kind of delight on the face of Tessa Virtue before Monday night's ice dancing final at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. It was the joy of mastery.
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March 2010: The story
The story of God's great deeds—creation of all things; judgment of vicious human rebellion; redemption of all things—told in the Bible is the context within which we at Comment understand and approach everything. In this issue, we have asked our contributors to recount the episodes of that story, and we publish an editorial manifesto, broadcasting our most deeply-held convictions on the origin, coherence and purpose of existence.
The story is true, and has consequences. Consequences for how we live, consequences for how we understand the lives of our neighbours. See these illustrated in the essays—literary and photographic—that surround our manifesto and the central thread of creation-wonder, fall-heartbreak, redemption-hope.
Come and explore with us.