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New Article: Community and the Cubicle
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 4th, 2009 on Creation ProjectWhat do cubicles, tobacco farming, and the church have in common?
By 2000, forty million American white-collar employees were using the cubicle. What began as a customizable work environment eventually turned into an urban dungeon. Cutting us off from contact with the real world, the cubicle is scorned for suffocating productivity and community. Attempts to […]
Here’s an excerpt from last Sunday’s sermon which addressed our economy, idolatry of information, and the plan of God in Christ for making people truly human:
Paul knows that we will drift towards finding our significance in what we know, not who we know. He knows that we will participate unwisely in culture, taking on its […]
It looks like economic naysayer, Dr. Doom, may be wrong. In the second quarter, the U.S. GCP reported a 3.3% increase. This article says we are not out of the woods yet, especially with the housing market. But perhaps Obama’s running mate announcement and Donald Miller’s prayer inaugurated the American Utopia! 
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The NY Times offers an interesting article on Nouriel Roubini (AKA “Dr. Doom”), an economics professor at New York University, who predicted the current decline in the U.S. economy two years ago. Roubini has been labeled as a pessemist, written off as a naysayer, but is now being invited to address Congress, the Council on […]
Many of us dread the office, even worse, the cubicle. Ironically, the cubicle was originally designed to foster human creativity, increase a new sense of success and vocational vitality. According to Nikil Saval, when Robert Propst created the cubicle in the 60s, he declared: “We are a nation of office dwellers. The face of capitalism […]
A study from the Pew Foundation reveals that most middle-class Americans believe they are not “moving forward in life.” The article notes: “For decades, middle-income Americans had been making absolute progress while enduring relative decline. But since 1999, they have not made economic gains.” Part of the reason for “bad times” is the borrow/spend habit […]
Today NPR’s Morning Edition hosted five U.S citizens in order to raise the question of how economic issues factor into their voting for this year’s election. Ranging from Florida to California voters shared their concerns and hopes. When asked “Will we be able to leave the country in better shape to the next generation?” answers […]
A UK study claims that the cultural elite are no more, the kind of people who prefer high culture over pop culture: “We find little evidence for the existence of a cultural elite who would consume ‘high’ culture while shunning more ‘popular’ cultural forms.
This study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, included […]
In “Bright Lights, Big Cities” Matthew Quirk argues for the goodness of burgeoning urban slums. Contrary to intuition, slums, shantytowns, and squatter settlements reduce national poverty. Quirk points out that sixty-six percent of the migrants who move from rural to urban contexts make more money. Yet doesn’t it take more money to live in (or […]