Art addresses us in the fullness of our being--simultaneously speaking to our intellect, emotions, intuition, imagination, memory, and physical senses. There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories or songs or images.
--Dana Gioia
Where faith, ethics, politics, and pop culture collide
About Me
Articles
- How Christian Were the Founders?
- The Future of the American Dream
- The End of Christian America
- The Coming Evangelical Collapse
- How to counter 10 of the most common myths conservatives believe about progressives
- Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising?
- Life After the Economic Collapse: How Having Less Will Make Us Happier
- The Evil Behind the Smiles
- Technology May Be Altering How Brains Work
- What Bush Got Right
- A Social Creed for the 21st Century
- A Closer Look at Black Liberation Theology
- One Nation Under Elvis
- What Chores Would Jesus Do?
- The Conscious Classroom
- We Are What We Eat
- Taylor's Death a Grim Reminder for Us All
- Struggling Schools Strain to Meet U.S. Standard
- God's Harvard
- Jailing Nation
- Hip-hop's Down Beat
- The Missing Class
- Are Your Cell Phone and Laptop Bad for Your Health?
- Yes, We Can All Be Insured
- Girls Gone Mild(er)
- Correcting Misconceptions About Homeschooling
- The Reality of Race: Is the Problem That White People Don't Know or Don't Care?
- Sorry, Thomas Friedman, the World is Round
- The Principal Principle
- Rethinking Gender: What Makes Us Male or Female?
- Beyond Bush
- Evaluating No Child Left Behind
- How to Fix No Child Left Behind
- Einstein and Faith
- The Hidden Costs of America's Hypermasculine Culture
- Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps
- Hip Hop Profanity, Misogyny and Violence: Blame the Manufacturer
- Imus Got His Trash Talk Pass Yanked, Now Yank it for Blacks Who Talk the Same
- Chomsky and Zinn on Patriotism in America
- Chomsky on Iran
- 51 Things We Can Do
- The Armageddon Gang
- Parents: Relax
- Blood on the Streets
- A Can-Do Nation
- Is Your Baby Gay?
- Why Sexist Language Matters
- From Sex Workers to Restaurant Workers, the Global Slave Trade Is Growing
- 35 Million Ways to Be Black
- The Grassroots Abortion War
- Yep, She's Mainstream
- Queer 101: A Guide for Heteros
- The Big Corporate Motherhood Conspiracy
- A Call for an Open Discussion of Mass-Marketed Pornography
- Media Cited for Showing Girls as Sex Objects
- Iraq's Young Blood
- An Atheist Bullies the Faithful
- More Dangerous Than Smoking? Death by Soda
- Abuse of Cough Syrup, Rx Drugs Up
- Gender Pay Gap Begins to Widen
- Six Ways That Changing Your Life Can Prevent Global Warming
- How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
- The Crime of Breathing While Black
- Let's Talk About Race
- First Comes Junior in a Baby Carriage
- When Public Schools Aren't Color Blind
- Young Borrowers Face a Lifetime of Debt
- 2-4-6-Hate
- An Evangelical Identity Crisis
- A New Social Gospel
- In God's Country
Links
Watch
Quality Films
- Adventureland
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Julia
- Man on Wire
- Two Lovers
- Let the Right One In
- Tell No One
- Rize
- Frost/Nixon
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Changeling
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- The Wrestler
- Rachel Getting Married
- Burn After Reading
- Vicki Cristina Barcelona
- The Visitor
- Transsiberian
- In Bruges
- The Counterfeiters
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
- Charlie Wilson's War
- The Savages
- Juno
- Sweeney Todd
- The Assassination of Jesse James
- There Will Be Blood
- American Gangster
- No Country for Old Men
- Atonement
- Michael Clayton
- Eastern Promises
- Gone Baby Gone
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Once
- Year of the Dog
- The Lives of Others
- Waitress
- A Mighty Heart
- Black Book
- Away From Her
- Jesus Camp
- Shut Up and Sing
- After the Wedding
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- Sherrybaby
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Last King of Scotland
- Notes on a Scandal
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Blood Diamond
- Babel
- Half Nelson
- The Warrior
- Keane
- Brick
- The Proposition
- A Prairie Home Companion
- Tsotsi
- Mean Creek
Reading List
- Endgame: The Problem of Civilization
- Reinventing Eden
- The Death of Nature
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- God's Economy
- The Culture of Denial
- The Sustainability Revolution
- Ecological Literacy
- Free to be Bound: Church Beyond the Color Line
- Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crisis, and a Revolution of Hope
- Sophie's World
- There Are No Shortcuts
- Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire
- The Irresistible Revolution
- What Jesus Meant
- The Road to Whatever
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- Misquoting Jesus
- The Secret Message of Jesus
- The Heart of Christianity
- Don't Eat This Book
Curious
To Read
- Foucault: Materialism and Education (Olssen)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Tatum)
- Can We Talk About Race? (Tatum)
- New Black Man (Neal)
- The Education of Blacks in the South (Anderson)
- Caught in the Crossfire (Grossberg)
- Critical Race Theory in the Social Studies (Ladson-Billings)
- Other People's Children (Delpit)
- Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope (Giroux)
- Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism (Giroux)
- The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (West)
- Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution (McLaren)
- The American Evasion of Philosophy (West)
- Democracy Matters (West)
- The Cornel West Reader
- Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life (Giroux)
- America on the Edge (Giroux)
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