High points that i want to call attention to the fact that i have the url where the full presentation may be accessed. The final slide will happen again also. That way you could dwell longer on some of the slides, so i will be going over that lightly. The book came out in the last two years. The dust jacket blurb, it reads he gives the story of the american underground revolutionaries and what it has desperately needed. He has sifted the embers of the conflagration of the counterculture. That is what i want to begin with because this term counterculture has in recent years come to subsume everything that happened in the 1960s, particularly associated with activities on the left, whether baby of political or cultural origin and intent. You find this term being used in many different ways over the course of the historiography. Sometimes as a compound, two words, and sometimes as a single. It has become an umbrella term for the 60s, perhaps synonymous with that. There is an attempt to est
Michael what i would like to do in this talk is introduce you to some of the literature on the counterculture. I should go back for just a moment. This presentation takes much longer to do thoroughly. Im going to hit some of the high points that i want to call attention to the fact that i have the url where the full presentation may be accessed. The final slide will happen again also. That way you could dwell longer on some of the slides, so i will be going over that lightly. The book came out in the last two years. Its called days of rage. In the dust jacket blurb, it reads he gives the story of the american underground revolutionaries and what it has long desperately needed. Conflagration of the counterculture. That is what i want to begin with, because this term counterculture has, in recent years, come to subsume everything that happened in the 1960s, particularly associated with activities on the left, whether they be of political or cultural origin and intent. And you find this t
Love. I want thisb asking the simple question what is frugality . Well as a say in the book, the concept is simplicity itself is not. Reality is usually understood to mean living within your means. The opposite of extravagant. But in the book i began to realize there is more than just that you frugality. Frugality is traditionally considered a virtue in many cultures. But is closely associated with Simple Living in general. And then there is many different meanings of Simple Living. Including living within ones means obviously but also achieving a degree of selfsufficiency. Perhaps being close to nature. Perhaps a certain kind of purity or spiritual. And being independent. Enjoying the Simple Pleasures of life rather than requiring extravagant expenditures. All of those things are tied into the concept of simplicity. Now, you are a penny pincher yourself, right . I am rather, my family will vouch for that. [laughter] i think to be fair, as i say in the book, i think sometimes it is wor
Dissertation on seasme street. It was this wonderful woman pioneer joan gance cooney who came up with the show. I did my research on her. And then i started thinking about there are faith themes in the show, even though it never discusses organized religion. But its kind of the underlying rule as far as the golden rule in the show. And its taught in very subtle ways but besides teaching numbers and letters and colors and shapes, you know, this is the underlying thing. Love your neighbor as yourself. Yes. Who are the people in the neighborhood . And who are our neighbors. Yes, yes. And as we are in the season of lent we do focus on loving our neighbors, caring for our neighbors, and serving our neighbors. So im just so fascinated and curious about how these themes were taught to children and through which characters. So lets start with big bird. Tell us what what did big bird teach us about the golden rule, loving our neighbors. The big bird was designed specifically to be like a 2yearo
Good evening. Ang evening of conversation and discussion about our christian witness in the 21st century. And the occasion is, of course, rod drehers new book on the benedict option. Before i introduce our speaker i want to thank the cosponsors of this event. My name is rusty reno and one of the sponsors of the event is first things magazine, that i edit, and the other sponsor is plow, and id like to think peter munson, the editor, for contributing to make this happen. It was peaters peters idea to have this event and id like to thank the folk tuesday american conservative, where rod dreher is the Senior Editor and a tireless blogger, and as we all know. In fact right now he is posting. And the folks the american conservative that and the folks at plow id like to thank those at first things are trying to think about how to move forward in very Tumultuous Times of a very deep change, not just in the political culture but thick also theres a sort of spiritual earthquake abroad in the wes