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Archive - Sep 28, 2009

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David Brooks Compares V-J Day Footage to Our Contemporary Narcissism

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:51 — Glenn Lucke

Excellent article by David Brooks of the New York Times. High Five Nation.

Excerpt:

And there was something else. When you look from today back to 1945, you are looking into a different cultural epoch, across a sort of narcissism line. Humility, the sense that nobody is that different from anybody else, was a large part of the culture then.Read more

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Tom Nelson Speaking at DTS Chapel on Christians and Depression

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 07:57 — Glenn Lucke

What interested me when I first heard about Tom Nelson's depression was what I knew of him via his famous "Tommy Nelson boys". (There may be an official title for the 12 or so young men he disciples each year, but I don't know it.  Among Texas evangelicals they are known as Tommy Nelson boys.)Read more