December 2009
2 posts
The Body of Christ, Now Germ-Free
Wired reports on the brewing intellectual property war over hygienic churchware:
“A Minnesota marketer of communion-wafer dispensers is accusing its former president of patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. (.pdf) … The handheld devices allow the dispensing of wafers without being touched by anybody but those receiving them. What’s more, the portable devices, according...
Deep Feeling, Remembered
Speaking at the New School, former believers Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood recounted growing up evangelical. Topics included: God, The Word, the Jewish intellectual monopoly, lamentations, and joy.
What remains in the absence of faith is the very question of secular life: how are we to feel deeply without access to the divine in everyday experience, warming our hearts...