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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch: review - Telegraph
Eamon Duffy reviews Diarmuid MacCulloch's new book, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (to be released in the US in March 2010).
Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles
Scans of every page of the classic 1914 collection of puzzles.
Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking - Bright-sided - Jezebel
I love Barbara Ehrenreich, and this is a great review of her most recent book. I'd like to do a post on this myself.
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Ehrenreich also writes persuasively that the popularity of positive thinking in corporate America — she cites the rise of "self-described management gurus" like Tony Robbins and the book Who Moved My Cheese? as examples — has served to blind workers to their ever-decreasing job security.
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By and large, America's white-collar corporate workforce drank the Kool-Aid, as the expression goes, and accepted positive thinking as a substitute for their former affluence and security. They did not take to the streets, shift their political allegiance in large numbers, or show up at work with automatic weapons in hand. As one laid-off executive told me with quiet pride, "I've gotten over my negative feelings, which were so dysfunctional." Positive thinking promised them a sense of control in a world where the "cheese" was always moving. They may have had less and less power to chart their own futures, but they had been given a worldview — a belief system, almost a religion — that claimed they were in fact infinitely powerful, if they could only master their own minds.
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Book Burning (event announcement for Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV in North Carolina, Halloween 2009)
They plan to burn, apparently, three classes of items: first, bibles that are not the KJV; second, music that is not Christian; and third, books by "heretics," mainly meaning Christians who espouse theological positions different from those of this church. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?vqeuf
Welcome to bookdarts.com
I had a big stash of these. I went through a period of not using them much, but now I want them and I can't find them. I may have to order more. $20 for 200.
Counter-cultural teenagers -- Review of Does my head look big in this? Randa Abdel-Fattah | Books | Sydneyanglicans.net
A review, on an Anglican site, of a book written by a Muslim woman from the point of view of a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl growing up in Australia who has just decided to veil. Reviewed as a good coming-of-age story for religious teenagers of any type. Sounds kind of interesting.
Modernity’s Fraternity < Killing the Buddha
Notes on Freemasonry in American history and popular culture, and Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol."
Columbia UP series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey W. Robbins, Editors
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The series will address a range of religious traditions and political viewpoints in the
Zondervan - Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing
Seen on the @religion_book Twitter stream. From the product description: "For fans of stock car racing, this Bible is a must-have. It features commentary and testimonies from some of racing’s most famous names, as well as full-color action photos of some of racing’s most famous faces."
Zondervan - Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing
Seen on the @religion_book Twitter stream. From the product description: "For fans of stock car racing, this Bible is a must-have. It features commentary and testimonies from some of racing’s most famous names, as well as full-color action photos of some of racing’s most famous faces."
Gay penguin book gets most US ban requests | News | The Christian Institute
A Christian organization's news site comments on the American Library Assoc.'s report on banned books for 2009, according to which the book most often subject to challenge or removal requests in children's libraries in the U.S. this year was a book called "And Tango Makes Three," which is about "two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo who raise a baby penguin."
Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life : NPR
A true feel-good story.
What Are You, Illiterate? - Pullout - Back to School - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
"Are you reading Atlas Shrugged? Don't you know it'll turn you into an asshole for at least two years? When you're college-age and your parents are paying for everything, you're likely to be a big believer in people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Ayn Rand appeals to your age group for that reason, but the problem is, once you actually have to pay your own way, bootstrap-pulling gets a whole fuck of a lot harder, and Rand sounds more and more like a creepy Republican. If you're over 25 and you still think her books are great, you're (a) white and (b) an asshole."
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