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Not Enough Time: A Modern Eschatology

Rachel G. Hackenberg | Posted 05.14.2013 | Religion
Read More: Christian Eschatology, Modernity, Work Life Balance, Time Management, Christianity, Apocalypse, End of Times, Religion News
Rachel G. Hackenberg

Modern American life has conflated the end of time with everyday time. We are living each day in a panic as though it is the last day. We experience each moment as though it is a deadline, an end, a final chance for productivity. We are not waiting for The End Of Time to live at the end of time.

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One Small Sign of Society's Unraveling

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Essay, Maria Rodale, Community, Modernity, Coffee, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Life, Renee James, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Renee James, essayist and blogger When someone studies early 21st-century life to try to pinpoint exactly when society started to...

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A Different Day, a Different Time

Ron Brounes | Posted 12.18.2012 | Parents
Read More: Rotary Phones, Parenting, Imagination, Older Dads, Make Believe, Parents-Families-Tech, Modernity, Childhood Nostalgia, Childhood, Childhood Memories, Nostalgia, Parents News
Ron Brounes

When I was growing up (half a century ago), life was different. Telephones had rotary dials and did not double as game consoles. Kids sat next to the TV because we didn't have remote controls to change to the other three channels and rabbit ears needed constant adjustments.

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'The Scream' Is Only The Beginning...

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 06.28.2012 | Arts
Read More: The Scream, Tate Modern, Edvard Munch, Horror, Painting, Slideexpand, UK Arts, Realism, Walter Benjamin, Symbolism, Expressionism, Edvard Munch the Scream, Video, Modernity, Johnny Depp, Arts News

Most of us know Norwegian painter Edvard Munch by his "Scream," which has continued to echo throughout our collective nightmares since the late 19th c...

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What Makes Rubens Great?

Daniel Maidman | Posted 07.30.2012 | Arts
Read More: Modernity, Prometheus, Peter Paul Rubens, Orson Welles, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Daniel in the Lions' Den, Arts News
Daniel Maidman

Q: What makes Flemish painter, diplomat, and scholar Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) great? A: lots of things. Today, I'd like to compare two of his pai...

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Bilious Cruelty Against Bears in the Name of Medicine

Tim Terhaar | Posted 03.24.2012 | Green
Read More: Animal Cruelty, Modernity, Desire, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suicide, Bears, Medicine, Bile Farm, Death, Green News
Tim Terhaar

Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over...

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Hinduism And Modernity

Pankaj Jain, Ph.D. | Posted 10.01.2011 | Religion
Read More: Hinduism, Hindu Beliefs, Hinduism and Modernity, Modernity, Hindu Culture, Hindu Government, Ancient India, Religion News
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.

Where does Hindu tradition stop and modern values begin? The main argument presented here is that the so-called modern values were already imbibed in the Hindu culture.

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America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future

Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Islam, Religion, Empire, Poverty, Modernity, Industrialization, Slums, Rome, Christianity, Global Poverty, Roman Empire, Inequality, World News
Michael Vlahos

Global change has been building. It is too big for crisis management to suppress much longer. And if we insist on seeing it all as bad, we will miss the actual change itself.

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Men: What Have We Learned So Far?

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Women, Modernity, Relationships, America, Films, Books, Men, John Sheehy, Good Men Project, Masculinity, Femininity, Manhood, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

The one thing each of these men have in common is brutal honesty. You can't get very far towards your own definition of manhood when you are lying to yourself or the people you love. So dig deep.

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Health Care Reform is the New Gay Marriage

Morgan Warners | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Tea Bag Parties, Tax Day Tea Party, Modernity, Tea Bag, Tea Baggers, Tea Party, Tea Bagging, Gay Rights, Evangelical Christians, Economy, Christianity, Globalization, Gay, Gay Marriage, Health Care Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Tea Party Protests, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Town Halls, Town Hall Meetings, Media News
Morgan Warners

Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.

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Repositioning America: Obama's Cairo Speech as the Ultimate in Event Marketing

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, 9/11, Iraq, America, Dick Cheney, Iran, Jihad, Event Marketing, Muslim, Modernity, Indonesia, Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Arabia, Marshall McLuhan, Neoconservative, Islam, Bibi Netanyahu, Hosni Mubarak, Tradition, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Samuel Huntington, African American, Cairo, Israel, Afghanistan, Kenya, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Torture, Paletine, King Abdullah, Riyadh, Al Jazeera, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
William Bradley

Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again.

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Just Think

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Iphone, Blackberry, Thinking, Loneliness, Modernity, Solitude, Media News
Richard Laermer

What if restaurants put a bin near the door for our cell phones, Blackberries, etc? Consider what would happen when our dining companions got up to use the bathroom, leaving us alone. With our solo thoughts.

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