I was so looking forward to this mini-series. Now I don’t know. I guess I’ll go back to the books (which I love).
A Whitewashed Earthsea – How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books. By Ursula K. Le Guin
Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
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A brief editorial pondering the US debates over origins, separation of church and state, and spiritual question asking in schools.
Science & Theology News – Editorial: Questions we cannot ask.
It raises a good point – where are the safe places for people to ask questions about faith, science and other stuff?
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I am in awe (and my iBook is now more than a little afraid).
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Christina’s put together a blog to work through her research project on emerging church stuff. She says,
The purpose of this blog is to record the process of a research paper i am embarking on. in this paper i’m going to explore the trajectory that emerging expressions church, faith and spirituality may be on. in other words…if we can identify them as emerging then what might they look like in 10 years time.
Looks interesting, especially as she’s talking about the sources she’s using to do this.
More at: where are we going?
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From the NZ Herald,
Research into indigenous New Zealand species is cutting the time it takes to rehabilitate devastated land with native plantings by a decade or more, says a company developing the plants.
Full article at: The New Zealand Herald: Planting with native ferns can save devastated land.
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Opened the latest copy of the ATF (Australian Theological Forum) journal Interface yesterday and was met by a violent, hot pink cover (the photo does not do it justice). Once I got past that though I found that the issue (Vol.7 No.2 Oct 2004) was entitled “Stem Cell Research and Cloning : Contemporary Challenges to our Humanity.” Looks like it has some very interesting articles in it. Hopefully before Christmas I’ll be able to skim a couple.
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As I’m still playing around with my digital camera and the panorama mode on it I was interested to see this posting on printing and framing panorama photos : DIY Large Panorama Prints.
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Craig L. Blomberg, Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, reviews Bruce McLaren’s book “A Generous Orthodoxy” in response to observing its reception by some Christians as being equivalent to a Harry Potter novel.
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Another from the Auckland Festival catalogue that intersects with my research – excellent!
Gina Czarnecki: InfectedMoving Image Centre presents a selection of new video works by artist Gina Czarnecki. Infected is a hybrid melting point of dance and digital imagery that confronts issues surrounding the convergence of biology and technology and possible corruption of the human genetic mix. Through the sensuality of the human body in dance and movement, Czarnecki explores where what is naturally possible ends and the digitally manipulated begins – asking the audience to consider “what is real, what is not, and does this matter?”
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Nouslife: slide presentations -the rules broadens (and includes) Andrew Jones insights) on “rules” and observations on using presentation software. Some helpful stuff there. Almost a year ago I blogged Greenflame: PowerPoint Is Good/Evil on similar themes. I’m still looking for my “killer app” for presentations. Inspiration comes close and I’ll probably buy a copy in the next month or so but the integration with Powerpoint (or similar) was less than optimal last time I checked.