Monthly Archives: April 2010

TBTM20100405

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Task for the week: finish the book. Word count is presently a shade under 55,000. I don’t expect the word count to change significantly, but hopefully by the end of the week it will look much more polished.
In the mean time, some links:
The implications of unmeasurable capital
The Shirky principle (“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”) See also the linked article on the collapse of complex business models. (If only the CofE powers that be could take this into account!!)
Collapse competitively
Rowan on Pullman’s book
Five ways the Google Book settlement will change the future of reading.
The art of dying well, with Jesus.

TBTM20100405

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Task for the week: finish the book. Word count is presently a shade under 55,000. I don’t expect the word count to change significantly, but hopefully by the end of the week it will look much more polished.
In the mean time, some links:
The implications of unmeasurable capital
The Shirky principle (“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”) See also the linked article on the collapse of complex business models. (If only the CofE powers that be could take this into account!!)
Collapse competitively
Rowan on Pullman’s book
Five ways the Google Book settlement will change the future of reading.
The art of dying well, with Jesus.

Sacraments and social action

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Doug has an outstanding post here, explaining why belief in bodily resurrection, sacramental worship, and social action are a seamless robe.

“If the tomb is not empty, though, then surely sacraments and social action are alike in vain. Our corporeal existence has no future, and only our souls or spirits matter, while bodily life is to be left behind. Only if the tomb is empty, if Jesus has been bodily raised from the dead, do sacraments make any sense, or caring for the earth have any value.”