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Archive for January, 2009
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Looking Forward: Video Games in 2009
Posted on January 30, 2009 | 11 CommentsAlan Noble and Richard Clark share the video games they're most looking forward to in 2009. -
Looking Forward: Politics in 2009
Posted on January 29, 2009 | 1 CommentBen Bartlett shares his top 3 political issues to watch in 2009. -
Mark Driscoll on Nightline
Posted on January 28, 2009 | 7 CommentsThe Indie Rock Pastor of the Evangelical World? What do you think of this guy? -
Praying For Snow Storm Victims
Posted on January 28, 2009 | No CommentsWe want to remind you all that there are some serious events going on right at this moment. The winter storm has knocked out power for over 800,000 people across the U.S. and we’ve seen a number of folks killed because of car accidents and... -
Looking Forward: Books and Music in 2009
Posted on January 28, 2009 | 2 CommentsCarissa Smith shares the literature and music she's most looking forward to in 2009. -
So Should Best Buy Sell Prayer Beads?
Posted on January 28, 2009 | 1 CommentIn response to Mexico’s plan (with help from Radio Shack) to beat the US soccer team? -
Stimulus?
Posted on January 28, 2009 | No CommentsIt looks as though the “stimulus” bill will be sailing through Congress and onto President Obama’s desk. Is that term truth in advertising when it is really a debt increase package? Anyway, this article by Jim Manzi is one of the many good pieces out there showing... -
One of the most insightful reviews I’ve read about Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Home’
Posted on January 27, 2009 | No CommentsGarret Keizer, over at Religion Dispatches, has written my new favorite review of Marilynne Robinson’s Home–I like it better than my own review! Take this paragraph for an example: Perhaps it is Robinson’s profoundly Calvinist sense of the all-sufficiency of Grace, the ultimate irrelevancy of... -
John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76 – Yahoo! News
Posted on January 27, 2009 | No CommentsJohn Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76 – Yahoo! News. -
Obama Gives First Interview to Arab TV
Posted on January 27, 2009 | 2 CommentsSo what do you make of this move by President Obama? -
Looking Forward: Film and TV in 2009
Posted on January 27, 2009 | 2 CommentsCAPC Writers share the films and television shows they're most looking forward to in 2009. -
Walters/Blago: The Gov Does The View
Posted on January 26, 2009 | No CommentsHere’s a great little write-up of Blagojevich on The View today. -
Is it Too Easy to Blow People’s Heads Off?
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 1 CommentDisturbing/Discouraging/Inane Video Game Quote #1: “I like to blow people’s heads off, so, well, it never got old for me.” via MTV Multiplayer » Bethesda Reacts To Three Major ‘Fallout 3′ Criticisms. -
I Was Right about Potter
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 3 CommentsBTW, this could be a spoiler if you haven’t seen last season’s finale. Anyone watching Lost this season? In my household we’ve pretty much been taken in yet again. Since I’ve been designated the CAPC Christ-Figure-Watchman, I need to say… Christ-Figure Alert: John Locke will Rise... -
Looking Forward: General Culture in 2009
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsRichard Clark shares the three cultural trends he most looks forward to in 2009. -
Ten Trends That Are Saving Videogames
Posted on January 25, 2009 | 4 CommentsIGN: Ten Trends That Are Saving Videogames -
“Slumdog Millionaire” gets mixed reaction in India
Posted on January 25, 2009 | 5 CommentsIn Mumbai, the setting for Slumdog Millionaire, residents have mixed reactions to the film–some are thankful for the film’s pulsing, life-affirming portrait of their city, and others accuse it of reveling in India’s shame. What I find odd is the cultural amnesia about a certain... -
And the Oscar noms are in!
Posted on January 23, 2009 | 1 CommentJust a month to go until the 81st Academy Awards, and the nominations were announced this morning. What will shock no-one: Heath Ledger is nominated for Best Supporting Actor. However, The Dark Knight didn’t get a Best Picture or a Best Director nomination, as many... -
Jeffrey Overstreet reads the Oscar nominations and finds them wanting
Posted on January 22, 2009 | 7 CommentsOn his Looking Closer blog, Overstreet laments over the Oscar nominations this year: “The Oscars have always been political, and have often overlooked great things. But this is beyond ridiculous.” While I did not have the chance to see many of the top rated movies... -
“The Audacity of Hope” in God’s Sovereignty
Posted on January 19, 2009 | 1 CommentIn his debut post, Adam Carrington has some advice for Obama a day before he becomes our president.