Julie Canlis

Pilgrimage, Geography, and Mischievous Theology

As I learned while traveling across England and Wales, pilgrimage, by its very nature, takes time and place. Pilgrimage honors the fact that our bodies participate in our redemption.

Durham Cathedral - Pilgrimage
David A. Garner

The Briefing 2.20.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The “joyful, gossipy, and absurd” life of Virginia Woolf, a biography: “I caused some slight argument with Leonard this morning by trying to cook my breakfast in bed. I believe, […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 2.13.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Internet pokes fun at Brian Williams with—yes, you guessed it—memes: The most astute reaction to news anchor Brian Williams’s claim that he “misremembered” being present inside a US Army […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 2.6.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The FCC has spoken. They will propose regulating broadband like a utility: As part of its 2015 Broadband Progress Report, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to change the definition […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 1.30.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Wikipedia bans some editors from gender-related articles: Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has voted to ban a number of editors from making corrections to articles […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 1.23.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Martin Luther King, Jr., tells a joke on The Tonight Show: OK, it’s not a good joke, but the man was busy. It was Feb. 8, 1968, and Martin Luther […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 1.16.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A story about the town without wi-fi: The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other kinds of modern technology due to a high-tech government […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 1.8.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye the past week. Terry Eagleton on the death of universities: Are the humanities about to disappear from our universities? The question is absurd. It would be like asking whether alcohol is about to disappear […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 1.2.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye the past two weeks. A few popular meals that are 2,000 calories: The nation’s largest restaurant chains have made a big deal in recent years about introducing smaller portion sizes. McDonald’s eliminated […]