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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Amusing Ourselves to Death
In the eighties, a movie came out called The Gods Must Be Crazy. A pilot flying over the Kalahari desert in South Africa tosses his empty Coke bottle out the window, and it lands near a tribe of bushmen. They think it’s a gift from the gods, and find it has its uses: crushing grains, … Continue reading
Random thoughts on the Little House books
My mother read us the Little House books when my family drove across the country. We drove from New York to California, tent-camping all the way, the summer before I entered 7th grade, and these stories about another westward-moving family were a wonderful accompaniment. Those were the days before iPods or portable dvd-players (or even … Continue reading
Mudhouse Sabbath
Yesterday in Sunday school, my friend Polly extracted some excerpts from the chapter in this book about mourning. A young mother known to many people at church had died earlier in the week when another car inexplicably veered into her lane and hit hers head-on. Her husband and three children — one, who was in … Continue reading
Technopoly
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology has been on my shelf for 12 years. At the Asbury College faculty retreat in the fall of 1997, the Provost gave us all a copy of the book. It looked interesting to me then, but for some reason I’ve never gotten around to reading it until now. … Continue reading
The Wizard of Oz
My daughters and I finished reading The Wizard of Oz. I read the book years ago, but I’d forgotten a lot of it. I remembered the movie better, which had made such an impression on me as a child. But even that was fuzzy. I posted some observations about the book here. The book’s religious … Continue reading
