Reviewed Elsewhere [ Vol. 1, #23]
The NY Times shares an excerpt from
Maggie Jackson’s Distracted:
The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/attention-must-be-paid/
“Distracted? And how. Beeped and pinged, interrupted and inundated, overloaded and hurried – that’s how we live today. We prize knowledge work — work that relies on our intellectual abilities — and yet increasingly feel that we have no time to think. For all our connectivity, we often catch little more than snippets and glimpses of one another.
The greatest casualty of our mobile, high-tech age is attention. By fragmenting and diffusing our powers of attention, we are undermining our capacity to thrive in a complex, ever-shifting world. Consider the mounting costs of this widespread distraction: …”
Read the full piece:
http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/attention-must-be-paid/
Maggie Jackson. Distracted:
The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Hardcover. Promethus Books. 2008.
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The Other Journal Reviews
Mark McKim’s Christian Theology for a Secular Society.http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=342
“Mark McKim approaches systematic theology with the same ecclesial and scholastic concerns that have driven nearly two decades of pastoral ministry.
His work is both careful and precise as it attempts to navigate a systematic approach to theology as contextualized in a secular post-Christendom West. While it takes more than a little while to really delve into the heart of his work—the first eighty-three pages are reserved for three thorough prologues—McKim builds his theology toward his vision of ecclesiology and ethics that are rooted in Jesus’ message about the Kingdom of God. It is to this end that he moves through doctrines of God, Creation, Sin, Christology, and Redemption. Upon this theological base, he envisions the Church as an expression of God’s Kingdom in the world. He sees the lives of believers as communally and ethically moving to express this work of Christ in the middle of the secular society within which Western Christianity finds itself. He concludes with a vision of the eschatological fulfillment of the Kingdom of God that is both coming and at hand. …”
Read the full review:
http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=342
Mark McKim.
Christian Theology for a Secular Society:
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land.
Paperback. Wipf and Stock. 2008.
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“The Locavore’s Dilemma”
The Washington Post Reviews
Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-mile Diet.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903515.html
“It’s trendy these days to be a locavore — to know where your food comes from, and, ideally, to make sure the source isn’t far from home. Writers like Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver have helped make locavorism the latest thing, but back in 2005, two young journalists hatched an experiment in extreme local eating: For one year, they ate only food produced within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia. Plenty, their joint memoir of this adventure, is a refreshing twist on locavore literature. The authors, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, are saddled with numerous handicaps, among them minimal experience in gardening, a small budget and limited access to grocery stores stocked with indigenous fare. …”
Read the full review:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903515.html
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon.
Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-mile Diet.
Paperback. Three Rivers Press. 2008.
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