Archives for posts tagged ‘community’

the twitter-salvation connection

Going around the twitter-blogosphere recently has been the recognition that the vast majority of twitter accounts are simply those who have signed up, tweeted once, then abandoned the account. This isn’t a new phenomena, it actually happened in the blog world when blogs hit grandma-cool status a few years back.
My question, is twitter like a [...]

working together

There is a very nice article by Jonathan Dodson over at the resurgence about how the communal aspect of work has been lost. It used to be that during the busiest time of the year, harvest season, people would come together to help each other harvest each other’s crops. Today instead of coming together in [...]

kierkegaard, faith, & community

I have been reading through Kierkegaard’s book Fear and Trembling recently. I haven’t finished it yet, but it has already brought up some interesting concerns for me.
Basically the book uses the story and Abraham’s sacrificing Isaac as a backdrop for a discussion of faith. Kierkegaard see faith as a paradox, something that cannot be truly [...]