Share Produced and edited by Melissa Kiser of the Allen County Public Library.
Archive | Culture RSS feed for this section
‘Longing for the City’
Share Hello! If you’re here because of being invited at the “Longing for the City” talk Wednesday night, welcome! I’ll post lists of recommended books and resources on this Web site as time permits. Plus, if you have recommendations, please leave a comment here. Thanks for coming!
Chesterton on the modern world
“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.”
In Defense of Fake Authenticity
My friend Scott is frustrated with a pizza place. He enjoyed the food, he liked the prices, and he thought the service was acceptable. But he still feels like he’s been lied to — by the building itself.
Grace for the secular city
Share The Gospel is a powerful testimony of grace and brokenness for the secular city. In the fall of man, we love to build ourselves up to maximum boasts and radical displays of self-sufficiency apart from the Lord. This display is visibly featured in the city: we love to invest in highly lucrative businesses or [...]
The geography of happiness
Share How much is your happiness dependent on what country you live in? That’s tough to say, but by and large, Americans are pretty happy; in fact, we’re ranked 16th in the world. From Science Daily: Denmark tops the list of surveyed nations, along with Puerto Rico and Colombia. A dozen other countries, including Ireland, [...]
Second Amendment: Still in force
Share Concerning this: The Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handgun possession yesterday, deciding for the first time in the nation’s history that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual’s right to own a gun for self-defense. … a commenter here made a point I hadn’t considered: A lot of us are [...]
Slow down, you move too fast
Share A policy that encourages cars to keep moving privileges cars at the expense of pedestrians and bicyclists. Since drivers, for the most part, already believe that they have priority on the road, in places where there are many more walkers and bicyclists, drivers able to drive more quickly because of fewer impediments would likely [...]
$55 million Maplecrest extension approved
Share I honestly want to hear John Kalb‘s view on this project: Less than a week after a majority of members expressed serious doubts about the project, Allen County Council on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the extension of Maplecrest Road from Lake Avenue south to Adams Center Road. The 6-1 vote in favor of a $25 [...]
Recent comments