Tag: Neil Postman

• 4 Possible Paradigm Shifts for the 21st Century Church

  I am not sure in what context or venue he said this, but billionaire financier Warren Buffett is credited with having noted: “In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” Whatever the initial context, there is much wisdom in this insight that can be…

  Dennis Griffith

  May 24, 2012

  Ministry, Missional Church

  Church, Francis Assis, Ministry, Missional Church, Neil Postman, Paradigm Shifts for the Church, Warren Buffett

• Building a Bridge to Puritan Days

  In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, author Neil Postman suggests that in many ways we have not so much advanced, as a culture, as we have drifted over the years. Postman seems to believe we would do well to return to and reconnect with our philosophical roots and rebuild upon them. I might say…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 4, 2011

  Christian Life, Reformed Spirituality

  Arthur Miller, Christian Life, Christian Spirituality, J.I. Packer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Neil Postman, neo-Puritan, Puritans, Spirituality, The Crucible, The Resurgence, The Scarlett Letter, Winfield Blevins