From CNN, this is not good news for those in the pro-life camp: “President-elect Barack Obama is considering issuing an executive order to reverse a controversial Bush administration abortion policy in his first week in office, three Democratic sources said Monday. Obama’s second full day as president falls on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States. The sources said Obama may use the occasion to reverse the “Mexico City... Read more

1. DTS had a rapper get a ThM and has the video to prove it.  Fans of Christian rap (and good rap in general) will recognize The Ambassador in this one.  Southern has Flame; TEDS, to my knowledge, only has Crosswords.  Who is he?  That’s a mystery for another day… 2. Chelsey Scott has the best song I’ve heard in a while, regardless of genre.  You must hear “Give Reviving” on her Myspace page.  Honestly, this isn’t one of those... Read more

Happy New Year.  To celebrate it, read Sally Thomas’s provocative piece–“iPhones Have Consequences”–on the effects of the new technology from November’s “First Things” and chew on passages like this: “Television, vehicle of Masterpiece Theatre and Match Game ’74, has now been joined by a whole Information Superhighway, with a seemingly infinite number of exits to places that might be, but too often are not, Project Gutenberg’s collection of electronic texts. Rather than connecting the new generation with the thought and... Read more

All conservatives should chew on this Tim Keller quotation from the latest issue of Themelios: “Inner-city children, through no fault of their own, may grow up with vastly inferior schooling and with an overall environment extremely detrimental to learning. Conservatives may argue that this is the parents’ fault or the “culture’s” fault while liberals see it as a failure of government and/or the fruit of systemic racism. But no one argues that it is the children’s fault! Of course, it... Read more

Click this link to watch a hilarious video featuring Andrew Sherwood of 9Marks Ministries and, briefly, Mark Dever.  Also, if you’ve got a little loose change, consider contributing to 9Marks, an excellent ministry that exists to help the local church and bring health to it. Read more

After some thinking, praying and conversation, I’ve decided to step back from blogging a bit. This doesn’t mean that this blog will no longer exist.  I am going to continue to blog at this address.  In addition, I’m going to continue to try to blog with excellence.  I want to continue to engage the culture, apply the gospel to all of life, and do what little I can on this site to advance the kingdom.  I would encourage you, then,... Read more