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I’m leaving on vacation for the next week and a half, so I’ll be reposting some old entries. Greatest hits? You decide. The Trinity Read more
This morning, on the elliptical, I watched a bit of the season-opening game between the Red Sox and the A’s, live from Japan (only when Morning Joe was on commercial break). And it got me to thinking: baseball, it is said, is all about streaks. The way to make it to the playoffs and to win the Series is to streak at the right time and slump at the right time. You’re not going to win the Series if you... Read more
I think it first happened at my lunch with John Piper, when he said that he was personally offended by Brian McLaren’s quoting of Steve Chalke’s recapituation of the feminist critique of the penal substitutionary theory of the atonement; that is, that it advocates a form of “cosmic child abuse”. (Yes, my use of too many prepositional phrases was intentional, for it shows the ridiculousness of this entire endeavor.) John wondered why Doug and I would not publicly denounce Brian... Read more
Are you in DFW? Then join me at the Highland Park Barnes & Noble tonight at 7pm for a book reading. Hope to see you there. And tomorrow night, same time, at BookPeople in Austin. Read more
I’ve done lots of radio and podcast interviews in the last couple weeks. A lot of them have been by conservative critics, some have been by friendly conservatives, and some have been by progressives. Here’s one of the latter, a podcast at the Phoenix Journal, “Documenting emerging, progressive Christianity.” On that note, I’ve gotten some good comments on my post, “Why Is Liberal Christianity So Boring?” But there’s one that stood out, from Drew, so I’ll re-post it here: …To... Read more
So far, I like the Mac. Yeah, it’s cool, and I love that it comes right back as soon as I open the cover. It sometimes took my Gateway PC two or three minutes to come out of standby mode, and hibernation took even longer. But I do miss the right click function. I used right click dozens of times per day, particularly while browsing in Firefox. I think it’s silly that the Mac hardware doesn’t include this, and I... Read more
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