Leave Baby Bear and His Doll Alone
“Making silly, absurd claims that confuse what the Bible expects of us and what our cultural context expects of us will do no good.”
Sesame Street: A Method to the Madness
Let’s say you want to research preschoolers, but your study requires children who are NOT able to recognize Sesame Street characters. So you, “interview,” one child. And another. And another.
Nielson Media Research has shown that it will take a long time to finish your study, because as of 2004 they found that 99% of American preschoolers recognized the Sesame Street characters.
Sesame Street: Today's New England Primer
Daniel Boorstin is my favorite historian. He has written widely and well on some of the key players, events, and influences on both world and American history.
Perhaps my favorite piece of his work, though, is an article he wrote discussing the role of the historian called, “The Historian: ‘A Wrestler with the Angel.'” He points out that the greatest challenge for the historian is to discover the things that TRULY move history.
