February 2012
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WatchFF on ACL.
January 2012
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“Pornography is a universal temptation precisely because it does exactly what the satanic powers wish to do. It lashes out at the Trinitarian nature of reality, a loving communion of persons, replacing it with a masturbatory Unitarianism.”
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Religion Hata Gettin' Hated On! (Appropriately) →
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Cuddle Your Kids →
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“He decided he wanted to meet Stott, and a friend helped connect them. Simon called the theologian and offered to take him out for dinner. He said Stott told him he didn’t go out much anymore and instead invited the musician to his flat for tea and biscuits.
“‘I’d say we spent two or three hours there,’ Simon recalled. ‘I talked about everything that was...
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I Need a Gun →
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Moms (and Dads) Your Kids are Not an Inconvenience →
“I am SO thankful that God does not see me, His child, as an inconvenience. Instead, while I was still a sinner He sent His Son, Jesus, to die for me (Romans 5:8). When I have come to Him in need, I have never felt Him roll His eyes at me or turn away because I called at an inconvenient time. He delights in my need of Him, and He encourages me to come to Him … with anything and at ANY...
December 2011
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Dude? →
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Quote of the Day
“Today, polls show Americans are much more inclined to put up a Christmas tree and decorations or go to a party than to attend religious services, even though they tend to see Christmas as a religious holiday.
“Perhaps it’s a bit puritanical to insist that believers dump their cherished family traditions to march off to church on Christmas morning. But it’s also...
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Dude →
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Football is Better than Football →
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Hymns from Ninevah: "Endurance at Christmas Time"
I know nearly nothing about these guys except that (1) they’re from Denmark and (2) their new Christmas/Advent album is already one of my favorites ever. (A Sufjan killer? I think maybe!) Having already puked today from reading the endless unnecessary superlatives in the Pitchfork Top 50 albums reviews, I won’t say anymore about it except get it.
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Pitchfork Top 50 | Bon Iver Not Surprisingly Best... →
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Christopher Hitchens is Dead. →
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Thankful for a Home
My daughter is just old enough now that she often offers up her own prayers at dinner and at bedtime. You’d be amazed what you learn about prayer from a three-year-old. The first time she prayed for many things. But one thing stuck out. ”God, thank you for our house.” Our house? I never thank God for that. Never. And yet my house is absolutely a gift from God.
Sad. →
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Quote of the Day
“Before I let Tebow go, I asked him if anyone after the game — coaches, players, execs — had said anything memorable to him. ‘Everybody was happy,” he said, ‘but I’ll tell you one thing that happened during the week that I remember … ‘
“Good, I thought. John Fox, maybe, sidling up to him and saying something sportingly profound like,...
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November 2011
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Quote of the Day
“There is no question that Somalis, especially mothers and young children, are dying daily from starvation. On his tour, Stiller stopped by one tent in an overcrowded camp. A man had just delivered a rolled-up mat containing the corpse of a small child. ‘I looked outside the tent,’ said Stiller. ‘Here was a woman with her head on her knees, weeping. I thought, This is...
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My God. →
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A Congregation in Skinny Jeans →
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Tim Keller Q & A on His New Marriage Book →
Your wife Kathy adheres to a complementarian view of gender roles but points out that a subdivision of labor can vary greatly within marriages and across cultures, generations, and societies. You state that cultural gender roles are not necessarily the same as biblical gender roles. Might this view might advance the egalitarian vs. complementarian debate beyond a current stalemate?
I don’t...
October 2011
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Hmmmm →
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Richard Dawkins's refusal to debate is cynical and... →
goddamntoothbrush:
ryanphelps:
“What is new is the belittling posture toward religious believers and the fury of the polemics. The New Atheism is certainly a far cry from the model of civilised interlocution between ‘old atheist’ Bertrand Russell and Father Copleston that took place and was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1948. The New Atheists could learn a lot from the likes of Russell, whose...
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“I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden one day and he started talking about God,” recalled Isaacson. “He said, ‘Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s cause I want to...
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Richard Dawkins's refusal to debate is cynical and... →
“What is new is the belittling posture toward religious believers and the fury of the polemics. The New Atheism is certainly a far cry from the model of civilised interlocution between ‘old atheist’ Bertrand Russell and Father Copleston that took place and was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1948. The New Atheists could learn a lot from the likes of Russell, whose altogether more...
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What Did I Do When I Was 22? Not this. →
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A Genocidal Christian? →
Or a bitter, uncharitable scientist?
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How I Wish the Homosexuality Debate Would Go →
Host: No, but it still seems like you are telling people not to be true to who they are.
Pastor: It only seems that way because you believe sexual desire reflects the core of one’s identity. It would help if you and others who agree with you would understand that in your putting pressure on me to accept homosexual behavior as normal and virtuous,you are going to the very core of my identity as...
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Same-Sex Marriage is a Public Policy Issue
Rick Santorum discussing this tricky topic masterfully.
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WatchMy Brightest Diamond: “Golden Star”
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What is an Extraordinary Church?
Mike McKinley, in Church Planting it for Wimps, p. 110:
I want to redefine extraordinary….It’s not a stadium sized building, a multi-million dollar budget, or satellite feeds to multiple venues. That’s how the world measures and achieves extraordinary. Rather, it’s extraordinary when God converts our neighbors, coworkers, children, friends, and family. It’s...
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It is Good to be Different from God
Michael Horton, in The Christian Faith, p. 42:
In it no crime to be different from God. Finitude is not “falling away” from some primordial infinitude. There is no part of human nature that is higher, brighter, more infinite, or more real than another. This means that the only legitimate ontological distinction is between the uncreated God and the created world, not between spiritual and...
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Dude →
“So are Mormons Christians? For me, that’s a complicated question.
“My Mormon friends and I disagree on enough subjects that I am not prepared to say that their theology falls within the scope of historic Christian teaching. But the important thing is that we continue to talk about these things, and with increasing candor and mutual openness to correction.
“No one has shown...
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The British in 1776 Had American Accents (Sort Of) →
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Quote of the Day
“Scientists at CERN, the European high-energy physics consortium, have announced the discovery of a particle that can travel faster than light.
“Neutrinos fired 454 miles from a supercollider outside Geneva to an underground laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy, took less time (60 nanoseconds less) than light to get there. Or so the physicists think. Or so they measured. Or so they have...
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“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
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“The obvious modern comparison is to Bill Gates, but that doesn’t work. Gates, like Jobs, is capital-I Important to the computer age, but in sort of the same way that ancient cave painters were important to the development of art. Jobs started out as a cave painter too but kept at it until he turned into...
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