If you haven’t heard of Jeremy Lin yet, you soon will (see this dated Time article). He’s a Christian basketball player for the New York Knicks. He’s also a Harvard graduate and an Asian-American. I’ve followed Lin on Twitter for some time, but he struggled early in the season as he was cut from the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets. The Knicks claimed him off waivers, and he actually played a game in the developmental league in my... Read more
A couple of days back, Jon Acuff–laugh-out-loud writer and author of Stuff Christians Like—wrote a post on how to manage social media use as a father. Acuff wrote the post in a whimsical style but ended up recommending that dads “pay for Tweets” in an effort to curb their phone use while at home. Here’s what he said on this point: The time doesn’t belong to me when we’re all hanging out. It’s family time. So if I want to... Read more
Do you know about the Reformed Forum? You should. It’s great. It’s a podcast done by some really good guys affiliated with Westminster Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). Here’s the brief description: Reformed Forum is a reformed theology media network, which seeks to serve the church by providing content dedicated to issues in reformed theology. … Reformed Forum records much of its content on the campus of Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, PA. … As an... Read more
Kay Hymowitz has a fun and typically well-written City Journal piece on the revitalization of Brooklyn entitled “How Brooklyn Got its Groove Back.” Folks who enjoy material on cities and the group Richard Florida has called the “creative class” will enjoy this one: If you’ve been in Park Slope recently, you can probably guess how things turned out for the Lehane house. But you may not know why. How did the Brooklyn of the Lehanes and crack houses turn into what... Read more
I don’t know if you’ve heard about these, but if you’re interested in entering a full-blown “church lab,” a program that will allow you to savor God’s work to reform one local church–Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D. C.–then you need to sign up for May’s 9Marks Weekender. It’s being held from May 17-21, 2012 (update: March is full, but May is still open) at CHBC, just a few blocks behind the Supreme Court. Here’s a bit more information... Read more
Interesting post from First Things on an old book about what young husbands should know (What a Young Husband Ought to Know (1897, link has free ebook thanks to Scott Lamb) by Lutheran pastor Sylvanus Stall). Here’s a bit of nineteenth-century wisdom for young men, filtered through Russell Saltzman’s commentary: This is where I start to like the guy. A young husband, Stall admonishes, should continue to court his wife. He should, in dress and attire around the home, remember... Read more
This discussion from a bunch of gifted Lampmode artists like Shai Linne (a fellow Capitol Hill Baptist Church intern!) and Stephen the Levite about the state of Christian rap is quite interesting and entertaining. Stephen the Levite, the dude with a wild beard, has some thought-provoking comments in several places. Shai Linne shows his pastoral heart and theological bent. At around the 16-minute mark, Json thinks out loud about how to handle jealousy, specifically of gospel rappers like Lecrae (whose... Read more
This is one of the more unexpected pieces I’ve come across in a while. A woman journalist who writes for Salon and other leading publications, secular-minded and skeptically oriented, found herself in Houston and started attending Lakewood Church. For those who don’t know, this is health-and-wealth preacher Joel Osteen’s congregation. These are two constituent elements–secular journalist and fluffy Protestantism–that normally do not mix. Here’s what Alexis Grant (a Colby College grad, bitter rival of my alma mater!) said of her... Read more
An upcoming event at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School tackles this question, and does so by way of a major lecture by esteemed pastor Thabiti Anyabwile. This lecture, entitled “Jonathan Edwards and American Racism: Can the Theology of a Slave Owner Be Trusted by Descendants of Slaves?,” will be held this Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 1pm CST (2pm EST) on the campus of TEDS. The event will be live-streamed here. Two leading African-American Chicago pastors,... Read more
The New York Times recently published a thought-provoking article on the new American economy entitled “A Mess on the Ladder of Success.” Here’s a snippet: Rather than dividing the country into the 1 percenters versus everyone else, the split in our economy is really between two other classes: the mobile and immobile. This is an interesting metaphor that has resonance with Richard Florida’s conception of the “creative class” as a group of creative, talented, mobile workers who will move to... Read more
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