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Nuit de la Carte Postale - Entretien 1/4 avec Sébastien Lapaque qui, dans ce premier entretien de la nuit, explique pourquoi il a écrit une "Théorie de la carte postale" et comment la carte postale, entre œuvre d'art et usage social, est autant un objet ethnologique qu'un support poétique.[...]
by Edward Curtin / June 4th, 2021 Life is full of slips. Words slip out of our mouths to surprise us. Thoughts slip into our minds to shock us. Dreams slip into our nights to sometimes slip into our waking thoughts to startle us. And, as the wonderful singer/songwriter Paul Simon, sings, we are always “slip sliding away,” a reminder that can be a spur to courage and freedom or an inducement to fear and shut-upness. Slips are double-edged. It is obvious that since September 11, 2001, and more so since the corona virus lockdowns and the World Economic Forum’s push for a Fourth Indus...
Numbers in New empty tomb Book Locate the Heart of the Dying Church's Choice: Serve God, in Jesus' Name, With Money on a Scale With Global Need — or Serve Money Share Article Data in empty tomb's new book, as well as various surveys, point to trends suggesting the church in the U.S. is dying. The church can serve God, in Jesus' name, with money to reach global child-death reduction goals. Or the church can continue present patterns. The State of Church Giving through 2018 Fig. 9 and Fig. 14 The new empty tomb book concludes that the church will not reverse these trends unless it helps peo...
Heart of dying church’s choice: serve God with $s on global need scale or serve money Numbers in empty tomb’s latest book point to downward trends in church giving and membership. To change the trends, the church needs to serve God with money by offering a vision on a scale with global need that will capture the imaginations and attract the giving of members and those still identifying with the church. It will, however, take initial leadership from individual venture philanthropists to mobilize such a counterstrategy to engage the entrenched patterns. The negative trends found in the data...
Is God alive and well? Debate: the need to believe Is religious belief (not necessarily in any traditional theology) so wired into the human brain and essential to human society that it can never end? Will anything that destroys a religion become a replacement for that religion? Will history’s tide of rationality at last turn? by Jacques Bouveresse Rationalists seem to believe that religion should be replaceable by something other than a religion. Their proposition has been countered by the argument of obligatory, indeed, automatic replacement, according to which anything that d...