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Reformation Printing

Date January 19, 2010

A few people have inquired about my research on the role of printing during the Reformation, so I include it here for your reading pleasure. You may need to zoom-in a bit to read it.
`The Last Flicker of Flame’: The Influence of Printing on the Spread of the European Reformations

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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Date June 16, 2008

Nicholas Carr of the The Atlantic has an interesting article on what the internet is doing to our brains.

And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream [...]

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Dorothy Sayers to “Average People”: Go Away.

Date April 2, 2008

Writing to “average people” about Christianity, Dorothy Sayers wrote:

The only letter I ever want to address to average people is one that says: Why don’t you take the trouble to find out what is Christianity and what isn’t? Why, when you can better yourself to learn technical terms about electricity, won’t you do as much [...]

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