Humility is Everything

I was encouraged this week to read that Harold Camping publicly apologized for his, "End of the world" predictions he made last year. (At the time I wrote about it here.) Using the Family Radio Network that his church owns, he famously guaranteed that Jesus would return on May 21st, 2011. The Media had a …

Why I Won't Repost KONY 2012 Videos

I don't “like” Jesus on my facebook page and I don't repost clever religious quips (unless I wrote them 🙂 and here's why: Author Neil Postman warned that media (especially social media) trains us to be more and more likely to talk about issues and less and less likely to do anything about them. The …

What I Learned Taking Two Months Off Facebook

I have been working on a thesis for the past six months or so. After I defend it in a couple of weeks I will be put up a copy of it up on this blog for people who might be interested in reading it. As I got closer to the crunch at the end …