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• Singles European Vacation – What Paris has in Store for

  
  Travel Tips — Authority: 136
  Singles European Vacation – What Paris has in Store for You! Your singles European vacation in Paris can be your ultimate dream come true experience. An Ideal Time to Come to the City of Light Paris is also known as the City…
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• In Defence of Defence

  
  Authspot — Authority: 520
  Before father Israel journeyed Finally Towards Her Majesty’s last sanctioned Promised Land. In middle Europe, where Emperors Had smote kings And our dear father was in shackles Damned the Solemn Refuse. In then, when humanity was lost Or replaced By devices of authority Strange to hearts. They made ...
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• Really, Wednesday Already?

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  * The 15 Worst Comics of the 2000s. The Mark Trail entry, while unexpected, is pretty amazing all by itself. * “ Avatar and the American Man-Child: ‘Don’t you want to be an Indian little boy?’” My piece , as well as SEK’s , gets mentioned. Where the movie goes wrong, then, is in making the ...
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• Abolishing Christmas

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 127
  MEMORANDUM No. 465371799199121SUBJECT: Abolition of Christmas and declaring it a null celebrationORIGIN: The Holy Office of the Holiest23rd December 2009______________________________________________________________________After a thorough discussion with all the concerned departments within the tiers of the Holy ...
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• New York, MOMA: cent’anni di modernità, cent’anni di design nei nuovi allestimenti del museo

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 147
  Passare dal MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) di New York non può essere un fatto casuale, soprattutto se si vive dall’altra parte dell’Oceano.  Ma proprio perché saranno numerosi gli italiani che si concederanno una vacanza natalizia newyorchese, il nuovo allestimento proposto nelle gallierie di design e ...
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• Ross Douthat Would Make A Fine Atheist

  
  The Awl — Authority: 771
  Ross Douthat goes after what he calls “Hollywood’s religion of choice” in the Times today: “ Avatar is [James] Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism—a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world.” Describing pantheism as “a form of ...
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• Something to look forward to: the modern medieval

  
  humanities researcher — Authority: 119
  
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• Notes on Nostalgia

  
  What's Wrong with the World — Authority: 547
  Approximately one month ago, Fr. Jonathan Tobias, who maintains a blog entitled Second Terrace , authored three meditations on the subject of locality, memory, nostalgia, modernity, and the Church. Those posts may be read here , here , and here , and together constitute a gentle interrogation of certain ...
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• Jews and Modernism/Modernity

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 131
  DBeard, DGore, looks interesting : "The Merchant of Modernism examines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique of capitalism with their own literary practices and how the shifting of the representations of this figure parallels the ...
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• Newbigin, Modernity, Biblical-Criticism and the Christian Witness to the Modern (Western) World

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 127
  Thanks again to Shane to sent me a copy of  Lesslie Newbigin’s Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture a few months back.  Now that I’m on break (hence the reason you see me blogging again!), I’ve had some time to dive back into this. Here are a couple of great quotes regarding how the ...
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• Critiques of Individualism as Will to Power

  
  Inhabitatio Dei — Authority: 417
  Critiques of individualism are as legion as critiques of modernity in theological circles. But anymore I’m not even sure what a critique of individualism is supposed to do . Ostensibly authors of books lodging theological critiques of individualism are hoping to somehow reshape society or at least generate some ...
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• No view from nowhere

  
  The Immanent Frame — Authority: 114
  I’ll start with a comment about my own angle of approach. There is of course no view from nowhere, and it is one task of the commentators to point out the blind spots that any perspective inevitably brings with it. As an anthropologist, my aim was not originally to construct a critique of modernity or of ...
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• Le Corbusier as Modernist Orator

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 131
  Looks interesting: a new book on the famed High Modernists speeches explaining modernism--for my friends and colleagues of the Modernism Project. (An aside; of all the arts, is it fair to say that Modernist architecture was the worst? Painting, sculpture, dance, literature--all were enriched. Modernist music ...
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• crafting the whole world: craft + race

  
  art + craft = craftivism. — Authority: 115
  For the past few days, there’s been a bit of an online kerfuffle about race and craft and the group Knitta, Please. As a result, the Knitta, Please website now defaults to MagdaSayeg.com . Here’s a link to a post about it on my friend Cinnamon’s blog because she provides the Cliff’s Notes version with ...
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• back to the beginning (revisiting home ec)

  
  art + craft = craftivism. — Authority: 115
  This year for the holidays I’m going down to my grandparents house, and it got me thinking about my grandmother’s college major, home economics. All I remember from my home economics class in 9th grade was that I learned how to make a pineapple upside-down cake. There was also some really weird lesson where we ...
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• A ‘C’ change at Chettinad Cement: from divinity to modernity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Chennai, Dec 17 (IANS) The 47-year-old city-based cement maker Chettinad Cement Corp has witnessed a “C” change.The Rs.1,137-crore flagship company of the Chettinad group has decided to adopt a new corporate logo — a sea wave shaped “C” — dropping its nearly five-decade old logo that is a picture of Lord ...
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• ABBA in Borough Park

  
  Zackary Sholem Berger — Authority: 109
  Social scientists rethink the relationship between Chasidim and modernity. Sometime in 2001, if you were a Chasidic woman in Borough Park, you would have noticed a teachers assistant who looked out of place at your daughters school. You would have been familiar with non-Jews and non-religious Jews from their stores ...
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• Toward A Missional Vision of Theological Education: Contextual Training

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 123
  Previous posts in this Series: Preliminary Thoughts | The Root of the Problem | The Fruit of the Problem | New Soil | Community Rootedness | Character Formation | Conviction Shaping I have tried to make a case that a missional vision of theological education is one rooted in community that emphasizes ...
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• DILEMMAS OF MODERNITY: BOLIVIAN ENCOUNTERS WITH LAW AND LIBERALISM

  
  Free Download — Authority: 180
  Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism ISBN: 0804759820 Category: Uncategorized Buy: << Buy This Book on Amazon >> Read more
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• Netbook for Girls

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 449
  Today’s girls do not only spending their time to play with their dolls. Internet access is also one of their necessities since they are already computer literate. Netbook is their new toy to support their mobility and their need of internet access.Netbook for girls is not the same with the netbook for boys. It does ...
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