I have shifted my more churchy and church planting thoughts to this new blog. If you are interested in my more direct engagement with culture and various articles I have written, check out Creation Project. This blog will be an outlet and a conversation with you about all things Christian, especially church planting.
Cheap Charity from the Wealthy
In a edgy NYTimes article, Billionaire William Gross takes his wealthy peers to task in cheap philanthropy. He writes:
“When millions of people are dying of AIDS and malaria in Africa, it is hard to justify the umpteenth society gala held for the benefit of a performing arts center or an art museum,” he wrote in his investment commentary this month. “A $30 million gift to a concert hall is not philanthropy, it is a Napoleonic coronation.”
Read the rest and respond by commenting here. What is your perspective? What about middle class philanthropy?
New Mars Hill: Religion, Arts & Justices
Check out the new podcast from Mars Hill, which explores the relationship between religion and the arts, Philip Reiff’s view of culture, and interviews with legal experts on the tenure of key U.S. justices.
“The essential thing ‘in heaven and in earth’ is,
apparently (to repeat it once more), that there
should be long OBEDIENCE in the same direction;
there thereby results, and has always resulted
in the long run, something which has made
life worth living; for instance, virtue, art,
music, dancing, reason, spirituality–anything
whatever that is transfiguring, refined,
foolish, or divine.”
–Friedrich Nietszche,
Beyond Good and Evil (1886); HT: Mars Hill
Rogue Wave
Listen. Enough said.
