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<\/a><\/span><\/div>\nKris and I will be in Florida this next week on Spring Break, visiting with Lukas and Annika and Aksel. But today we are in Orlando speaking at Synergy\u2019s event. I will be talking about how Paul saw himself in \u201cmotherly\u201d terms.<\/div>\n
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My brother-in-law, Pete Norman<\/b><\/a>, was one awesome coach and is already in the Hall of Fame.<\/div>\n
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Catalyst West<\/b><\/a> \u2026 Dan has a good announcement. Here are the lab speakers<\/b><\/a> \u2026 yes, I\u2019m one of them.<\/div>\n
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Post of the week: JR Briggs<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
Close to post of the week: LaVonne Neff<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Huffington Post has blogs about Religion<\/b><\/a>; the comments are out of hand, but otherwise this new development could be interesting. This post, contending the black church is dead<\/b><\/a>, is a good example of what we might see.<\/div>\n
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Good reflections from Tamara<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
Good reflections from the sometime.preacher<\/b><\/a> and this too<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
Good reflections from Bob<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/span>Edward Fudge<\/b><\/a>, a conditionalist, has a quiz on hell.<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span>Edward Fudge<\/b><\/a>, a conditionalist, has a quiz on hell.<\/div>\nPete Enns<\/b><\/a> on Adam as Israel and not humanity.<\/div>\n
David Brooks<\/b><\/a> story of Jan Baalsrud has to be non-fiction because no fiction writer could ask readers to believe such a story!<\/div>\n
Speaking of stories<\/b><\/a>, why do we storytellers embellish or exaggerate?<\/div>\n
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The UK conservative Christian political movement<\/b><\/a>; a sketch. (HT: CAS)<\/div>\n
The conservative, peer-reviewed journal<\/b><\/a> is under attack.<\/div>\n
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On proselytism and the law<\/b><\/a>: here\u2019s a piece by someone who can\u2019t figure out where to stand.<\/div>\n
On proselytism and modern Judaism<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
On global trends in mission<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Meanderings in the News<\/div>\n
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1. Michael Jordan<\/b><\/a> was perhaps the finest basketball player in NBA history; he\u2019s not my favorite person in the NBA; but time will tell if he\u2019ll be a good owner.\u00a0<\/div>\n
2. According to the author, every woman\u2019s dream is<\/b><\/a> \u2026? [You\u2019ll be surprised. HT: TD]<\/div>\n
3. WP Anthony Faiola<\/b><\/a>, on how German frugality \u2014 a sign, I might add, of financial wisdom \u2014 is hurting the euro economy: \u201cLike many Germans, Rosi Wicher, 40, a preschool teacher and single mother of one, got minimal wage increases over the last decade, with aggressive cost-cutting by German companies and government policies holding the line on private- and public-sector salaries.And like many of her peers in this shabby chic capital where ostentation is frowned upon, she prides herself on being thrifty. She has used the same stereo set for 12 years, runs no credit card debt, does not own a car and happily gets by with furniture purchased back in the 1980s. \u201cWhy do I need more?\u201d she asked. \u201cMy child is happy with a DS Lite instead of a PlayStation. And my stereo still works fine. It don\u2019t think it\u2019s a sign of progress to run yourself into debt.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n![\"WFB.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/WFB-thumb-333x440-11992.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span>4. I don\u2019t want to be accountable for this, so I pass it on to you at your own risk<\/b><\/a>: \u201cSo you can believe all the germ hype and end up like the\u00a0obsessive-compulsive billionaire<\/a>Howard Hughes. Or you can follow the data and get a flu shot, wash your hands sensibly after using the bathroom and around meals, and stop wasting money on hand sanitizers.\u201d<\/span>\n
<\/a><\/span>4. I don\u2019t want to be accountable for this, so I pass it on to you at your own risk<\/b><\/a>: \u201cSo you can believe all the germ hype and end up like the\u00a0obsessive-compulsive billionaire<\/a>Howard Hughes. Or you can follow the data and get a flu shot, wash your hands sensibly after using the bathroom and around meals, and stop wasting money on hand sanitizers.\u201d<\/span>\n5. An atheist on theodicy<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
6. Nice piece on Buckley<\/b><\/a>: \u201cHe was morally serious without being humorless, moving smoothly from irony to gravity. Irony is the mode of our generation \u2014 the way we avoid moral commitment and cover the nakedness of our real belief. It\u2019s fun, but a vice when indulged (as I do). Buckley could do irony well, but did so as an earnest, a serious man. He published, for the world to see, \u201cNear my God: An Autobiography of Faith.\u201d And he spent more time exposing his beliefs than ridiculing others\u2019 gaffes.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
7. What do you think? Can the court decide<\/b><\/a> against a divorced parent\u2019s choice of religion for a child?<\/div>\n
8. Barbara Brotman and \u201cartificial hipsters.\u201d<\/b><\/a> Funny.<\/div>\n