Patrol is an independent daily journal for young post- evangelical writers to explore their interactions with art, culture, politics, and technology. We are based in New York City and have contributors worldwide.
Information
- Founded:
- 2007
Patrol Magazine Paul Krugman says tea parties continue a long tradition of paranoid American political movements.
Source: www.patrolmag.com
Paul Krugman addresses the tea party question in today's Times, doing better than I have so far in projecting the future of the movement. First, he calls last Thursday's protest "grotesque," and connects it with a history of American political paranoia:
Patrol Magazine Calling all conservatives and would-be pundits! Help me understand why tea partiers are angry.
Source: www.patrolmag.com
In the months since this summer, when the "tea party" movement first emerged as a baffling force in our politics, I have been struggling to understand it. It ostensibly began soon after Obama's ...
Source: www.patrolmag.com
FAITH EXISTS in the absence of reason. The two cannot coexist for any given belief. One need not have faith, for instance, that one plus one is two, or that the energy in a system is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. ...
Source: www.patrolmag.com
The incoming story of yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, not far from my hometown in Texas, continues to be a horror show. The killer was not only an American soldier, but a devout Muslim who shouted “Allah Ahkbar!” as he gunned down fellow soldiers and a police officer. ...
Source: www.patrolmag.com
ONE OF THE GREAT pratfalls of contemporary electronic music is the “preset fallacy,” or the tendency among lazier electronic composers to pull up pleasant presets of keyboards and drum sounds and incorporate them into a song without making them one’s own. ...
Ayn Rand biographies, catchy trash from Owl City, and a website about drunken deer. - By David Sessi
Source: www.patrolmag.com
Once again in lieu of any actual effort at posting here, I will load you up with reading material and other bits of culture that are currently diverting me.
Patrol Magazine Patrol editor David Sessions on the uncanny similarities between homeschoolers and trendy New York parents.
Source: www.doublex.com
They are both breast-feeding, locavore evangelists.
Source: www.patrolmag.com
A RECENT post on liberal education's impact on the idea of place at Front Porch Republic, a Web community that champions "localist" conservatism, prompted in me a series of thoughtful nods, gestures that matched my mind’s own comfortable agreement with much of the subtance. ...
Patrol Magazine Patrol's Nathan Martin interviews David Bazan.
David Bazan on God, new atheism, and answering his daughter's questions. - By Nathan Martin - Patrol
Source: www.patrolmag.com
THERE ARE few albums that have nestled their way into my mind and thought process more than David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches. It’s a layered construction of circular theological questioning and time-old philosophical arguments. ...
Patrol Magazine Haven't a had a chance to catch Don Miller's "Million Miles" Tour? Read our review here:
Source: www.patrolmag.com
A couple of days ago Donald Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Tour” (in support of his new book of same name, reviewed here) rolled into St. George’s Episcopal Church ...
Patrol Magazine New York readers: Join some of Patrol's editors tonight at an n+1 panel featuring NY Times columnist Ross Douthat and Daily Beast columnist Reihan Salam. Free, 8pm at The New School.
Source: nplusonemag.com
Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger for TheAtlantic.com.
Patrol Magazine An exciting event for our NYC-based readers. The Million Miles Tour featuring Don Miller and Susan E. Isaacs.
Source: www.itickets.com
An n+1 panel on evangelical intellectuals ... without any evangelical intellectuals. - By Jonathan F
Source: www.patrolmag.com
It would seem we’re well on our way to starting a series here. The topic: Things We Already Know that Continue to Surprise Non-Evangelicals.
Source: www.patrolmag.com
AS A WORKING film critic, I’m not fond of analyzing morality in films. Even though one of my outlets has an audience made up, ostensibly, entirely of Christians, it takes little time to realize that moral standards vary widely between denominations and individuals. ...
Patrol Magazine John Michael Wofford on the latest from the "critically acclaimed" worship band.
Source: www.patrolmag.com
WE’VE TRAVELED a long distance with the David Crowder*Band—from smoky bluegrass festivals to the grimy halls of your local nightclub, from hallowed cathedrals where saints bend in prayer to the harried tongue-speaking chaos of tent revivals. ...
