Technology changes us. We’re often aware of how helpful it is, and thus we rush to use and apply it. But we’re not often aware of the effect it has on us. You may recall the seminal 2008 article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by The Atlantic writer Nicholar Carr (his blog is engrossing). In the piece, Carr explores how using the use of Internet technology affects the way we think and act. Carr notes that he has noticed the... Read more
The new 9Marks eJournal just arrived, and it’s on–take a deep breath here–church discipline. I know, right–why don’t they settle down and pick a single issue to focus on already? Good grief. I’m just kidding. In actuality, the new issue looks typically helpful. Some of you will know that I have a particular affection for the writings of one Greg Gilbert, he of Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Greg has a nice review of a hot new book called Deep Church... Read more
The latest from Ben Peays and The Gospel Coalition: The Gospel Coalition is pleased to welcome 10 Million Words — a new blog by Tim Challies. Over the next year Challies will read and review all of The New York Times bestsellers (nearly 200!). The aim of this project is to learn about American culture through the pages of the country’s best-selling books. We at TGC trust this project will serve pastors by providing insight into what Americans are thinking... Read more
A number of fun things for your Internet consumption today. 1. Have you heard of The Swell Season? It’s the duo that produced the film “Once.” Excellent music. You can stream most of the cd online. 2. You read this blog, so you know that I can’t resist a good dunk every now and then. This guy is, to use the technical term, ridiculous. 3. Another great article from Salvo (seriously, check that site out) on the lack of heroes... Read more
Hunter Baker is a sharp dude out of Houston Baptist University who just published a piece on the Salvo magazine website entitled “Facts Evasion: When it Comes to Sex, the Left Hates Science.” I commend the piece to you–it’s apologetically quite useful. Hunter just published The End of Secularism, I might add, which will make you much smarter than you are now if you read it. In Hunter’s article, he takes aim at the common misconception that the political left... Read more
I recently read a March 2009 piece by Russ Moore in Touchstone entitled “Abba, Joseph” that is one of the more moving pieces on Joseph and the significance of his husbanding of Mary and his fatherhood of Jesus I have encountered. Turns out that the article is offline, but it’s based on an accessible sermon called “Joseph of Nazareth Is a Single-Issue Evangelical.” Some of you have seen this before, but whether you have or not, you should read this... Read more
Thanks to the huge pack of you who signed up to test the new BibleMesh site. Way too many folks replied for us to respond individually to you, but rest assured that we have received your emails and are now gearing up to engage you in the beta-testing process. If you are interested in being a beta-tester but have not responded, we may be able to fit you in. Email me at ostracha [at] tiu.edu (take out the spaces and... Read more
1. First Things is now hosting a cool blog of evangelicals talking about public square issues in an accessible way. It’s called evangel, and it features folks like Justin Taylor, Russ Moore, and more. 2. A NYT profile of Warren Buffett’s son Howard, who is presently finding ways to spend billions of dollars for philanthropic causes. 3. Kevin Vanhoozer recently dropped the following gem at the Renewing the Evangelical Mission conference at Gordon-Conwell (HT: JT): Seminary faculties need the courage to... Read more
The always provocative Charles Krauthammer recently published a piece entitled “Decline Is a Choice” in The Weekly Standard that chronicles how liberal political thought is causing the decline of America. Here’s a snatch comparing Europe’s decline and America’s heretofore dominance: The corollary to unchosen European collapse was unchosen American ascendancy. We–whom Lincoln once called God’s “almost chosen people”–did not save Europe twice in order to emerge from the ashes as the world’s co-hegemon. We went in to defend ourselves and... Read more
Jonathan Leeman of 9Marks just wrote a humdinger of a blog about what he sees as a lack of shepherding among seminary professors. Leeman suggests in his post that many contemporary theologians conceive of their task in a kind of free enterprise way, rendering them relatively unaccountable and thereby potentially dangerous to the church. On the contrary, the church elder, in Leeman’s view, is bound to guard the saints and defend them from error. Here’s a synopsis of this point... Read more
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