Recipes and Essays

Lab: Faith in Media Cultures

Lab: Faith in Media Cultures

Heads up: A group of Latin American catechetical leaders is to announce soon the first “Laboratory: Faith in Media Cultures.” This one-week lab will take place in San Jos�, Costa Rica in March 2005. It will examine current projects in catechesis and religious education as 

Argentina: E-learning and curriculum

Argentina: E-learning and curriculum

Just got back from Buenos Aires where I visited an on-line, e-learning project for an advanced catechetical certificate. In Spanish, the ISCA, Instituto Superior de Catequesis Argentino offers three on-line courses. You can register for a course only if you are in a group of 

new directions in video/film

new directions in video/film

Was with Mary Lampe in NYC where we presented samples of new media work, new directions in microcinema and video art. Mary is executive director of SWAMP, Southwest Alternate Media Project in Houston. She is exec. producer of “The Territory,” which is a great show. 

Free Internet Network

Free Internet Network

Dee Dee Halleck has written an excellent and remarkably brief description and analysis of the origins and evolution of indymedia in article that appears in the current issue of Media Development. The essay is “Indymedia: Building an international activist internet network.” I am convinced that, 

Truth and Bush

Truth and Bush

I love the new 30 second spot about truth that moveon.org is going to start running. Ad�n

Hope in the Bronx

Hope in the Bronx

Last night during the Lehrer News Hour, Lutheran Pastor Heidi Neumark talked about her book, “Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx.” Neumark is the pastor of the Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx, where the congregation is a mixture of Hispanics 

Copyright with no insight

Copyright with no insight

I find it helpful to try to understand and keep abreast of movements and ideas with which I disagree. This essay by Douglas Spotted Eagle outlines the parameters of current copyright law and includes comments regarding churches and schools. If one were bounded by the 

Send E-mail to Olive Garden

Send E-mail to Olive Garden

I’ve been swamped with 2004 office work. Estoy super ocupado! But there’s time for taking care of this now: The Olive Garden features Gallo wines�including Gallo of Sonoma�as �wine partners� at its restaurants throughout the United States and Canada. In its television ads, this huge 

Super Bowl and Baptists

Super Bowl and Baptists

Houston is energized about the upcoming super bowl. The Baptists are praying over seat cushions so that when the fans sit on them, God will watch over them: “Volunteers will say a brief “SOS” prayer over each seat asking for salvation, obedience to God and 

Satellite Talk Show

Satellite Talk Show

One of the highlights of the North South Radio Dialog was a one-hour talk show about the world summit on the information society and its relevance to local communities. Using its network satellite, ALER connected panelists from four countries: The Netherlands, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia.