Thursday, October 11, 2012

Burning hearts & empty heads!

Jesus tells us to love God with heart and mind ( Matthew 22:37 ). We can’t love anyone we don’t know - even our great God. Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads. - R.C. Sproul

A Secularizing America?

A Secularizing America?

A new Pew Research Center study of America's evolving religious demographic asserts that nearly 20 percent of Americans are now religiously unaffiliated, while historically dominant Protestants are now under 50 percent. The headlines have understandably cited the study as proof of America's secularization.

Woody Guthrie at 100 - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Woody Guthrie at 100 - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Woody Guthrie at 100

The folk icon remains elusive and understudied

"Why do we continue to talk about Woody so many years on?" Bruce Springsteen asked recently. "Never had a hit, never went platinum, never played in an arena, never got his picture on the cover of Rolling Stone." Springsteen's answer: Guthrie is a "big, big ghost in the machine."