Technology

I rode my bike to work today. Despite the summer heat, it is not a bad trip
Every day across America we see self-segregation in lunchrooms, in classrooms, and in church pews on Sunday morning. But how about online?

Congress is hard at work on historic energy and climate change legislation. The House of Representatives plans to vote on a bill in the next few weeks, with the Senate to follow in early fall.

Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-2009

I hold in my hand a printout of the e-mail I just received from Barack Obama.

Ray Offenheiser 4-07-2009
The realities of global poverty are very stark.
Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-2009
Being the trusting sort, I clicked on the link. Life is different now.
Becky Garrison 2-05-2009
The day after Obama was sworn in as president, Trinity Institute launched its annual conference titled "Radical Abundance: A
Matthew Hildreth 2-03-2009
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Will President Obama deliver on his promises of media reform?

“Thy word is a [USB flash drive] unto my feet” is the good news that the folks over at The Amazing Bible Cross are singing.

Julie Clawson 11-05-2008
The 2008 election is obviously historic.
Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2008

For 500 years, Western culture, for better or worse, was formed by its books. Great novels have held up a mirror to the foibles and absurdities of human nature, while book-length manifestos have set the terms of political debate and social struggle (think Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, Marx’s Das Kapital, or even Hitler’s Mein Kampf).

For decades now, we’ve heard predictions that a culture founded upon the book is on its way out. The electronic culture ushered in by TV and confirmed by the Internet, we’ve been warned, would eventually render most people incapable of the kind of concentration required to really inhabit a serious book. Teachers have regularly reported a decline of interest in reading among the coming generations.

Despite these warnings, the book publishing industry marched on. Book sales kept rising. Sure, sales figures were pumped up by relentless niche marketing, fad-pandering, and Hollywood tie-ins. Still, books were moving off the shelves. But now the declining importance of print has begun to show up on the bottom line. According to a report by the Book Industry Study Group, in 2007 overall book sales barely increased at all, and would actually have declined if not for a single title—the final installment of the Harry Potter series. Publishing giants, such as Random House and Simon & Schuster, are showing declining incomes. Meanwhile, sales of books for young children are declining, which confirms the common-sense impression that, with each passing year, the place once occupied by books and reading is being filled by electronic gadgets with hypnotizing screens.

In the coming technological revolution, will there be space for the common good?
"From the time of Moses' stone tablets, man [sic] has searched for a better way to store, study, and share God's work," preaches the press release for the newly released GoBible.
Kim Szeto 7-01-2007

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth recently launched the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, starting with a focus on the genocide in Darfur.

Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-2007
Is this the end of productive society as we know it?
Jesse Holcomb 7-01-2007
Remembering who we are in a digitally fragmented world.
Chap Clark 4-01-2007
What does it mean to use life to give life?
Daniel Charles 8-01-2006

The pursuit of knowledge was his true faith. And in many ways, it remains ours today.

As newspapers die a slow death, can cable, radio, and the Web really provide serious, independent news?