Just finished the rather daunting project of trying to understand Rene Girard through the selection of readings in The Girard Reader. Like most deconstructionist and phenomenological writers, Girard’s style makes hard work for the reader! I was very pleased to read at least these main parts of the primary source material but in the end…
In The Journey of Desire, John Eldredge paints a very noble picture of gender differences and sexuality (Chapter 8, The Grand Affair). From Gen 1:27 he infers that gender is the means by which God’s image is born by us. God wanted to show the world something of his [sic] strength. Is he not a…
I have only just started to read Gil Bailie’s Violence Unveiled and have been challenged already to rethink the role of technology in relation to moral imperatives. Having read Jacques Ellul, I have largely accepted the thesis that technology imposes on us a drive towards a particular kind of “progress” beyond human control. In many…
Suppose you wanted to write about what God is really like, about God’s intention for us, about why God lets us suffer. Being a good storyteller, you decide to get the message across by weaving a dialog with God into a fictional setting. So you come up with a gripping story line and then put…
The Sydney UX Book Club is going to discuss Glut at the next meeting so I’ve been reading it. Here’s a few comments and quotes: It immediately seems a more balanced book than Everything is Miscellaneous, giving more credence to the value of hierarchical information structures. “The fundamental tension between networks and hierarchies has been…
