I enjoyed watching the spectators enjoyment as much as the actual performance. It begs the question: what have you done in four minutes (or three or five) to bring joy to another human being today?
Category Archives: Culture
Creating Culture for a New Jerusalem
I am in flux. I am re-thinking many of my thoughts, beliefs, and approaches to the world, my faith, by reading of scripture, and, not insignificantly, my view of culture and what it means to interact, criticize, create with my surroundings. I am working my way through Andy Crouch's book Culture Making. I say working because ...
The Book is Dead; Long Live the Screen
Christine Rosen of The New Atlantis writes in People of the Screen about the possible death of the book. She begins: The book is modernity’s quintessential technology—“a means of transportation through the space of experience, at the speed of a turning page,” as the poet Joseph Brodsky put it. But now that the rustle of ...
The Theology of the Quilt
You see, you start out with jest so much caliker. You don't go to the store and pick it out and buy it, but the neighbors will give you a piece here and a piece there, and you'll have a pieve left every time you cut out a dress, and you take jest what happens ...
Dumping the Grades
A school district in Colorado is changing the nature of school: One Colorado school district is going to shake things up by getting rid of grades. The move includes traditional letter grades and grade levels. The Adams County School District 50 school board approved a new system that lets students progress at their own pace. Students ...
Sharing Equals Culture
Only artifacts that leave the solitude of their inventor's studios and imaginations can move the horizons of possibility and become the raw material for more culture making. Until an artifact is shared it is not culture. ((Andy Crouch Culture-Making, pg. 40)) He goes on to quote Steve Jobs: “Real artists ship” My interpretation: Eric needs to get ...
Zander On Human Potential
I came across this video the other day via Presentation Zen and realized as I was watching that this would probably be a good piece for teachers (as well as administrators) to view. What do you think?