by Hayley Wood | Jun 28, 2012 | The Public Humanist
There’s a passage in C.S. Lewis’s book about his late conversion to Christianity, Surprised by Joy, in which he describes an aesthetic experience from his childhood that exemplifies the core of his spiritual longings. He recalls looking at Beatrix...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 28, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Hot in the feministsphere this week is the Slaughter article on whether women can have it all (spoiler alert: no) and reactions to the Pixar female-lead movie Brave. I went to see Brave with Saskia, Addy, Addy’s mom, Megan, and Ezekiel. It was take your...
by Sitting On The Baby | Jun 28, 2012 | Sitting On The Baby
On Saturday we went to a family reunion. The clan has lost some members since our last get-together, so we spent the usual amount of time avoiding that subject, then coming around to it when the moment seemed right. It started with the usual sentiments – how...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 28, 2012 | Stage
Circle Mirror Transformation is the name of a theater game in which a sound and motion begun by one participant is mirrored by the whole group, then transformed by someone else into another movement, and so on around the circle. It’s also the title of the play...
by Chris Lehmann | Jun 28, 2012 | News
One sturdy axiom of our post-productive economic life is that the cohort of high-symbolic analysts who compulsively characterize themselves as creative are all but allergic to actual ideas. Take the ballyhooed TED (Technology, Education, Design) lecture series—a...