http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/posts/2008/03/page/1/ Meditations on Jesus and our World en Vox Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:18 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/the-little-things.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/the-little-things.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/the-little-things.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:18 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48d08cc3b0001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48d08cc3b0001-50si" alt="Frappuccino" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> While riding the bus to the airport this morning, I met a kind stranger who, after taking a deep draught of his starbucks iced vanilla frappuccino, said, with something of a breathless passion, "Oh thank you Lord." I smiled, looked at him, and ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/the-little-things.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398ebb3e20005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> coffee starbucks caffeine thanksgiving frappuccinofr http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/arguing-with-grandma.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/arguing-with-grandma.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/arguing-with-grandma.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:06:26 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48d08cbb10001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48d08cbb10001-50si" alt="a clean front door..." /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> It's hard to argue with Grandma. Of the many "wise sayings," she often told me, one came to mind the other day as I was helping a neighbor clean: "if everyone swept in front of his own front door, the whole world would be clean." Problem is, ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/arguing-with-grandma.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48cea11a00002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> community wisdom philosophy trinity individualism orthodoxy http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/powerwashing.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/powerwashing.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/powerwashing.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:05:10 -0700 I had an opportunity to power wash our driveway this week and was amazed at how much filth and grime accumulates over time. Tires, bikes, paint, dust and dirt, as well as crayons and other odd leavings (we have children around the house) all were ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/powerwashing.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398eac1480005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cleaning repentance power scrubbing http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/annes-world-of-writing.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/annes-world-of-writing.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/annes-world-of-writing.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:22:48 -0700 Anne has just finished her manuscript. As an aspiring author--I probably have a dozen different book ideas rolling around in my head--I appreciate her toil and trouble, and congratulate her! My friend told me last week that I would be haunted by t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/annes-world-of-writing.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce2df8c0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> books writing authors the exorcist http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/murphy-strikes-again.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/murphy-strikes-again.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/murphy-strikes-again.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:56:34 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398e93bc50005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398e93bc50005-50si" alt="One angry dude" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The AP released a story last month that shows the sometimes tragic irony of life. A man, on his way to anger management class, while waiting at a bus stop, became angry at a woman and struck her. Then, while fleeing the scene, he inadvertenly d... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/murphy-strikes-again.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398e932420004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> relationships anger irony rage http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/revelation-in-history.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/revelation-in-history.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/revelation-in-history.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:44:28 -0700 More from Newbigin, on the occasion of Easter: The truths which Buddhism teaches would (as Buddhists understand them) be true whether or not Gautama had discovered and promulgated them. But the whole of Christian teaching would fall to the groun... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/revelation-in-history.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce1c91c0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> culture history jesus buddhism truth resurrection gospel gautama the gospel in a pluralist society lesslie newbigin http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/paying-for-the-taste.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/paying-for-the-taste.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/paying-for-the-taste.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:03:40 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce6edd10002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce6edd10002-50si" alt="Red wine" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> From a Chicago Tribune article in January: When it comes to wine tasting, pleasure is in the price. Using brain scanners to monitor the minds of wine drinkers, scientists found that people given two identical red wines got more pleasure from tas... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/paying-for-the-taste.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce6fd2a0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> food wine psychology chicago tribune http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/tween-thongs.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/tween-thongs.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/tween-thongs.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:24:54 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce6b61d0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce6b61d0003-50si" alt="How far will marketers go?" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> David Kuo has a great post last month highlighting excerpts from a troubling article by Stacy Weiner from The Washington Post. Ms. Weiner's article is called, "Goodbye to Girlhood." In his blog, David laments the "nauseating trend of younger an... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/tween-thongs.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce2df2a0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> grace resurrection gospel tweens barbie adultery bling-bling teenage girls david kuoshar http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/happy-crossmas.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/happy-crossmas.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/happy-crossmas.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:39:42 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce66e6f0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce66e6f0002-50si" alt="Fashion jewelry?" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> James Martin's article in Slate yesterday (Happy Crossmas? Why Easter Stubbornly Refuses Commercialization) offers an insightful look into the troubling nature of contemporary Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus. He also asks: why is it... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/happy-crossmas.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700e398e80b530004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> christmas easter resurrection incarnation slate commercialization james martin thomas kinkade crucifixion http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/juno-and-marriage.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Phil) http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/juno-and-marriage.html?_c=feed-rss http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/juno-and-marriage.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:16:18 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce644520003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48ce644520003-50si" alt="Juno&#39;s Soundtrack Artist Kimya Dawson" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I loved the movie Juno. It was simple. It was authentic. It was a glimpse of broken folks getting better. It had great music. (I kick myself for missing Kimya Dawson's concert a couple of weeks ago here in town.) Still, the movie was troubling--... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://coffeeculturekingdom.vox.com/library/post/juno-and-marriage.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4141b72246a4700f48d04ef790001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> marriage culture cinema soundtracks slate juno brokenness emily yoffe