Olaf Otto Becker Icebergs in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon, which is constantly growing as the Vatnajökull glacier—Europe’s largest—melts; photograph by Olaf Otto Becker from his book Under the Nordic Light: A Journey Through Time, Iceland, 1999–2011 , which has just been published by Hatje Cantz The…

Kieran Setiya interviewed by Richard Marshall. Kieran Setiya is a chillin’ philosopher in Pittsburgh. He’s thinking hard about knowing right from wrong and has written a book about this coming out soon. He wrote a book called Reasons Without Rationalism and wonders whether moral theory corrupts…

Considering he wrote The Chronicles of Narnia , one of the most popular collections of children's literature of all time, it's no real surprise that C. S. Lewis received thousands of letters from youngsters during his career. What's admirable is that he attempted to reply to each and every one of…

Website: www.matthewvines.com . Alright, I’d just like to start by saying thank you to everybody for coming tonight – I really appreciate it – and for being interested in learning more about this subject. I also want to thank College Hill United Methodist for graciously agreeing to host the event.…

Thursday 5 April 2012 2:23am Share Nothing is more destructive to the Christian faith than the current identification of Christianity with love. If God wants us to be more loving, why do you need Jesus to tell us that? And if Christianity is about the forgiveness of our sins, then why did Jesus have…

Magazine Just One More Game ... Illustrations by Aled Lewis In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its…

Source: Getty Model of efficiency: ‘hospitalism’ produced infants who were listless, apathetic and refused to eat – the result not of disease but of loneliness ” Their children’s cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim idol .” John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) The infants had been arranged…

Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. The way we negotiate anxiety plays no small part in shaping our lives and character. And yet, historically speaking, the lovers of wisdom, the philosophers, have all but repressed thinking about that amorphous feeling that haunts many of…

Monday, 25 April 2011 Posted byBen Myers Speaking of Rowan Williams, I was quite touched by a news story in The Telegraph . A six-year-old Scottish girl named Lulu wrote a letter to God: “To God, How did you get invented?” Lulu's father, who is not a believer, sent her letter to various church…

Opinion | Op-Ed Contributor Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs MARCH 14, 2012 TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs . After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand…

George Lakoff thinks he has the Santorum Strategy figured out. His view is unlike anything you'll hear from the pundits http://t.co/RvvBhCQV

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A great, insightful piece from former Rudd speechwriter James Button: 'The truth is, Rudd was impossible to work with.' http://t.co/fXdWDiKp

I'm uncool enough to think the @SwannyDPM piece in The Monthly is pretty good http://t.co/ft4Z57xb

Recipes Meal Drinks Non-Alcoholic More Breadcrumbs Recipes Meal Drinks Beer and Wine Homebrewing Printer-Friendly Version [Photo: Peter Reed] Ginger beer is ginger ale's sinister cousin: much more ginger and a little less sweet, but still (mostly) non-alcoholic. It can be made easily at home with…

Why did pepper get to be salt's companion? Photograph by Don Treadwell/iStockphoto. In another lifetime, I worked briefly for Spago Beverly Hills, where one of my jobs as the lowest ranking member of the fish station was to prepare the mashed potatoes. Quantities were large, and one day, just before…

BY RELEVANT RELATIONSHIPS / LIFE January 04, 2012 It is unfortunate that the word porneia —used on numerous occasions by the Apostle Paul—has no modern English equivalent. Older versions of the Bible translate it as "fornication" (which we think of as premarital sex), while newer ones often say…

Email In what is perhaps the most important sentence in his Quarterly Essay, Bad News, Robert Manne writes: "With regard to the problem of The Australian, I can think only of one possible solution: courageous external and internal criticism." He has given us that. And I am grateful for it. Though I…

One of my earliest teachers of Jesus' nonviolence was the great Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. I remember discovering in the fall of 1982 his seminal work, The Politics of Jesus , and devouring it. There I found for the first time someone who integrated my passion for Gandhian nonviolence…

It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Street Party. I was talking to a couple I had just met, and the topic turned to the beauty of the neighborhood.…

I’ve been down to “Occupy Wall Street” twice now, and I love it. The protests building at Liberty Square and spreading over Lower Manhattan are a great thing, the logical answer to the Tea Party and a long-overdue middle finger to the financial elite. The protesters picked the right target and,…