Monthly Archives: December 2013

I’m thankful that modern technology makes this work of preservation and dissemination possible.

The Santa myth is awkwardly forced into intersecting with the “real” world in ways that other great myths aren’t.

Let’s not fall into the trap of believing that the moment technology is involved, we become inherently anti-social, or that “instantaneous mediated nostalgia” and “real-life human connection” are mutually exclusive.

Let’s go on and start loving each other, Phil. And let’s begin by being slow-to-speak and choosing our words wisely.

“It’s not just that Santa is most frequently depicted as white, it’s that so many people simultaneously insist on his whiteness as essential and obvious without recognizing what that says about how much race actually matters to us.”

Could Father Christmas be so gracious to answer that child anyway?

The imagination is the highest faculty and, like other faculties, it does not spring fully formed. It must be exercised, practiced, applied.

“It surprises me how often I need to be reminded that Christmas should be a time of celebration.”

“Although the Daniel Diet is helping Christians become more conscientious about their health, the trend raises some questions.”

How much sympathy can a click even give?

Alfred Bester demolished the conventions of his genre, but in the process, his writing reached for the stars.

“We don’t want films that cynically exploit Scripture, but what do we want instead?”

I want you to have a Snopes detector installed on your computer to keep you from posting silly things on the internet.

“The question we ought to ask about rap is not whether it proclaims God’s nature and truth to the world, but how.”