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Spring What?
06 April 2008 9:13 PM | 5 CommentsWe've already got quite a few excellent articles queued up for this coming week. Expect them to begin early tomorrow. In the meantime, Tony Kummer over at Said at Southern has tagged me for the Spring Reading Days Meme.
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Podcast #21: Oprah’s Big Podcast
25 February 2008 10:58 AM | 12 CommentsOprah has become a true force in American pop culture, and her talk show is just the beginning. Oprah has her own magazine, cable channel, and as of Sunday her own prime time network television show. Of course, none of that is nearly as valuable or important as the influence she has on a good percentage of Americans. Forget the presidential race, Oprah is our real president.
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Podcast #28: Christianity Today, Boundless, Sex, and the City
18 June 2008 5:15 PM | 9 CommentsRichard Clark and Ben Bartlett discuss the Sex and the City backlash.
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Enjoying Culture without Being Consumed
10 April 2008 4:36 PM | 3 CommentsAlan Noble begins a two-part series on how we can keep from getting carried away by this whole Pop Culture thing.
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Allow me a moment to say that I thought it was flat-out awesome that their article, “Frankendesign” (the one about lazy design work in the church), was filled with hyphenated artifacts from what I presume was the print version of the article. For an article chastising Christianity’s low standards when it comes to design excellence, it was amusing to see words like: calen-dar, ar-tistic, and try-ing.
As far as the article’s content, I didn’t find the argument very compelling and certain statements (a f’rinstance is coming) just fell wholly flat.
F’rinstance (told you), “You can’t cultivate anything new using the same raw materials you’ve used before.” Spoken like someone whose imagination is used up and might not be suited for his particular field of design. Never blame the raw materials for your lack of ability to make magnificence from the materials. It’s not the material. It’s you. Really.
I think I’ll keep my $12. That’ll get me a month and a bit of WoW when I re-up. Much better investment.
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