Marginal Christianity

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kester-brewin/oculus-virtual-reality-an_b_5043729.html     Posted: 28/03/2014 13:19 The bookshop Waterstones tweeted a joke yesterday in which Mark Zuckerberg went into their shop on Oxford Street : 'What's this?' he said, holding up a book. 'It's a book,' I replied. He looked at it for five minutes before asking what it does. 'Well,' I said. 'You look at it and it kind of shows you another reality .' His eyes widened, his voice trembled with excitement. 'Like virtual reality ?' 'Well, sort of..' I said. 'EIGHT BILLION POUNDS!' he screamed. He threw a £10 note at the till and ran out of the store laughing nervously, like someone who's been tickled for just a bit too long. The joke, if your head has been in a bucket the last few days, centres on Facebook's purchase o...

http://christanduniversity.com/2014/03/17/the-accountability-of-community/ Posted by Jeff Bilbro 0 Last semester I was discussing The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an American Slave with my American literature students.  We were talking about the multivalent nature of freedom in this text, and the way that Douglass’s freedom depended both on his learning how to reading, which enabled him to become intellectually free, and on his gaining physical freedom.  Each of these freedoms was needed for Douglass to flourish as a human, but our conversation kept circling back to how reading opened his mind and made him mentally and spiritually free long before he gained his physical freedom.  I kept pressing my students on this question: How exactly did reading free Douglass? Reading is of great importance in Douglass’s narrative.  Douglass begins learning how to read when he is sent to Baltimore, and he completes his education by chall...