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Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. The search for the historical Adam
2. CT’s editorial on Adam, Eve, and the Gospel
3. A response to CT’s article and editorial on Adam and Eve
4. The Bible and Evolution
5. A critique of gender language in the NIV
6. A defense of baptism
7. The trouble with litmus tests
8. Surprised by addiction
9. Positioning your church
10. Implementing change in a small church
11. Responses to spiritual confusion
12. Praying for silliness
13. What to do while you’re waiting
14. On ranking charities by administrative expense
15. Pilgrim’s Progress for children
16. A review of “The Tree of Life
17. A review of “Go the F*** to Sleep
18. Is adoption a trend or trendy?
19. Are kids normal or inferior goods?
20. Life habits to improve your writing
21. The “Blue Like Jazz” teaser trailer
22. How to open a door for a woman

 

"It's a God Fit" by David Hayward

 

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Does your church prioritize the individual or the organization
2. Guarding your marriage, or dissing women?
3. A video  interview with Rachel Held Evans regarding her womanhood project
4. Gracenomics small group material (WARNING: autoplay video on page)
5. Ethical lessons from the Challenger explosion
6. A review of “Story, Signs, and Sacred Rhythms: A Narrative Approach to Youth Ministry
7. Arguments against reading scripture in context
8. The eloquence of the King James Version
9. The value of obsolescence
10. How to ditch your cell phone
11. The problem with positional leadership
12. Ways leaders can build trust
13. Reasons to commit your goals to writing
14. Don’t believe your momentum
15. Do for one what you wish you could do for all

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. In search of a better conversation about womanhood: part 1 and part 2
2. Thoughts on the role of mothers
3. John Piper’s thoughts on the Minnesota Marriage Amendment
4. John Piper interviews Rick Warren
5. Is Mark Driscoll a fundamentalist?
6. Did you learn everything you know about other religions from Christians?
7. On forgiving your enemies
8. Faith, doubt, and the introverted church
9. Embrace your crazy
10. Did Peter and Paul read each other’s letters?
11. The shallow small group Bible study
12. A review of “Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia
13. Current reading suggestions
14. How to self-publish
15. Skirting and washing a fleece
16. Building a rabbit hutch
17. The “Empathy Gap” and torture policy
18. Does regulation contribute to economic stagnation?
19. Why the newest GDP data is worse than it looks
20. Google’s new correlation tool

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Praying for Osama bin Laden
2. “welcoming to Christocentrics/others?”
3. A report on the Coptic Christians of Egypt
4. No matter what you do, it matters
5. Differences in the brains of men and women and conservatives and liberals
6. Did Jesus really call his disciples “children”?
7. Why Christians need contracts
8. Bad church hires
9. Are churches passive-aggressive?
10. A review of “The Unlikely Disciple
11. On sexual fidelity and brand loyalty
12. The neuroscience behind sexual desire
13. Why is sex so important to you?
14. Do musicians have better brains?
15. Are we becoming a country without libraries?
16. Arguments against home-ownership
17. How to pick between two paths
18. Does this spring mark the end of a baseball era?

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Do liberal theologians feel more at home with God?
2. Are you infested with questions?
3. You did not form your theology in isolation
4. What “Love Wins” tells us about Christians
5. What incentive does a media mogul have to promote the end of the world?
6. Is the Old Testament God a moral monster?
7. Calvinism and women in ministry
8. A Mother’s Day post-mortem by Church Marketing Sucks
9. How to date your children
10. Dispensing second chances
11. A review of “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
12. Why the crackdown on internet poker is a mistake
13. The price of gas is near its historical average
14. Vader says: “Obi-Wan Kenobi is dead” (WARNING: this is satire)

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. For those grieving on Monther’s Day
2. The President’s mother
3. Confessions of a breadwinner wife
4. Fifteen reasons to tell your child, “I love you”
5. Why pray?
6. The Body of Christ
7. On being inclusive and excluded
8. When people destroy young pastors
9. A Christian guide to not being a jerk on the internet
10. When religions get along
11. Paul on universalism
12. NT Wright and Rowan Williams criticize the killing of Osama bin Laden
13. John Hagee’s son rejoices at Osama bin Laden’s death
14. The bare life of Osama bin Laden
15. What our enemy brought out in us
16. How should I react to the death of Osama bin Laden
17. A review of “Waiting for Superman
18. A review of “Keep Your Greek
19. A review of “The Wilder Life
20. Find your passion in three steps
21. Seventeen reasons to ignore everybody and follow your dreams

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

It was great taking a break from the blogosphere during Lent; but, I sure am glad to be back. I missed staying informed. Anyway…

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Did Jesus “descend into hell”?
2. “Rules of Engagement” for discussing the Bible
3. Bible Gateway now has a free Greek text (SBL) online
4. Were the Israelites actually in Egypt?
5. A Czech film in defense of substitutionary atonement
6. Rob Bell on resurrection
7. A review of “Love Wins
8. A criticism of “evangelical universalism”
9. Rowan Williams responds to a six year olds’ letter
10. What if Starbucks marketed like the church
11. Does more contraception result in more unplanned pregnancies?
12. The Three-Way Marriage: a manifesto for Christian lovers
13. What to say to a friend having an affair
14. A review of (and some musings on) “The Book of Mormon
15. Steps to spark creativity
16. The relationship between intuition, contemplation, and imagination
17. A team takes talent, ethic, and hunger
18. A cupboardless kitchen

A fascinating pseudo-documentary on faith healing

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of, or agreement with, the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

For Lent I gave up blogs and Facebook; I am spending the free time focusing on prayer, Bible, study and family. The regular weekly meanderings will return after Easter. In the meantime, here’s something I came across this week…

Have a great weekend!

On Rob Bell and hell…

Last weekend a blog post by Justin Taylor, and tweet by John Piper, began a long discussion about Rob Bell’s upcoming book “Love Wins” (scheduled for release on March 15). Below is a compilation of the various threads of the discussion that have occurred over the last week.

The original article by Justin Taylor

CNN’s coverage of Justin Taylor’s article

An overview and initial thoughts by Jason Boyett

Initial thoughts by Rachel Held Evans

Kevin DeYoung’s reasoning as to why Matthew 18 does not apply to Rob Bell

Matthew Paul Turner – “How to survive Rob Bell’s new book release?

An argument that love does indeed win

Al Mohler on Rob Bell and the assumed content of his book

Jim Hamilton asserts hell glorifies God and Bell is trying to rob God of glory

Scot McKnight writes that the book should actually be read before it is reviewed

Ben Witherington promotes waiting for Bell’s book, and condemns Piper’s condemnation

Mark Galli (Christianity Today) reviews Christian views on heaven and hell

Orthodoxy vs. Heresy: a power game

Stephen Lamb writes about what Rob Bell has said and written in the past

The New York Times sums it all up

 

 

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Are paradigm shifts allowed in theology?
2. Why evangelicals hate Jesus
3. What’s your square in the kingdom quilt?

4. The Gospel of Grace for women who self-injure

5. The God who forgives

6. Rejecting self-righteousness

7. Miroslav Volf – Do Christians and Muslims both worship Allah?

8. Must I believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus?

9. Why must perseverance finish? – James 1:4

10. Sirach as Scripture in Judaism

11. The Cambrian Explosion and transitional forms

12. Thoughts on the British decision to exclude Christians from foster care

13. Al Mohler discusses public opinion on same-sex marriage

14, Baylor allows non-Baptists on its Board; Al Mohler is displeased

15, Six sociological characteristics of cults

16. An open letter to the open letter

17. Top 10 hardcore Lenten fasts

18. Three ways to communicate with naysayers

19. What motivates employees? (Hint: it’s not money)

20. Why creativity is necessary in business leadership (Harvard Business School)

21. Weird rules to boost creativity

22. Creating an inactivity list: deciding what to stop doing

23. Insecure creativity

24. Injustice On Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry

25. Is sexual abuse inevitable in prison?

26. A study finds public accountability makes schools better

27. Clutter busting routines for any family

28. Build your own Death Star for $16 Septillion (unfurnished)

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of or agreement with the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Women in ministry: a video series – part 1, part 2, part 3
2. A review of “The Missional Mom
3. Thou shalt not let thyself go – the 11th commandment?
4. Pastor, you’re too controlling
5. From pastor to Church drop-out
6. Chuck Colson’s theology fail
7. Lessons on God from Biblical genres
8. What is the Biblical form of Church government?
9. A video on church culture and money
10. Robert Alter on the Wisdom books
11. The Holy Spirit: harasser or comforter?
12. Why I’m a lousy progressive
13. What’s the point of marriage?
14. The effects of climate change on cholera
15. Lessons from a failed social media campaign
16. How a consumer thinks
17. Three characteristics of a creator
18. The Lord of the Rings through the eyes of the bad guys (free e-book in translation)
19. The Netflix top 25 “Faith and Spirituality” movies
20. On Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s musical “The Book of Mormon”
21. A review of “Cedar Rapids
22. Banksy’s pre-Oscar LA work
23. How do they put sound into movies?
24. A near death experience with Spanx for men

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of or agreement with the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Millennials, the Church, and social media
2. Is the conversation about gay rights “over”?
3. How infighting will kill the church
4. Disrespect is often the first sign of a failing relationship
5. How our words impact others
6. How to practice forgiveness
7. Five steps to recovery from abuse
8. Messiah figures in politics and culture
9. Sex and sexuality in the Garden of Eden
10. Is Satan in the book of Job?
11. The portrayal of God in the prologue to Job
12. Job as an example of Retribution Theology
13. Were the Biblical authors reliable in their old age?
14. “Just obeying what scripture clearly says…
15. Eugene Peterson on the King James Bible
16. The story of Zac Smith
17. What happened to Michael Vick’s dogs (video)
18. The effects of “forbidden fruit” on romantic relationships
19. Some (negative) thoughts on the Grammys
20. Michael Lewis on the financial crisis

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of or agreement with the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week*…

1. Churches and Facebook: should churches care? How to leverage it?
2. A review of “Half the Church: recapturing God’s global vision for women
3. The Bible as a book of questions
4. “that whoever believes in him” shall or will “not perish” (John 3:16)?
5. The manifestation of God in the Old Testament
6. Converting from Christian to Agnostic and back again
7. The state of sex in America
8. Sex and the Bible
9. Al Mohler on sex and the Bible
10. The social costs of pornography
11. What porn does to relationships: part 1 and part 2
12. Fetal surgery and abortion
13. Homelessness and demonstrating love
14. Visiting the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India
15. A good discussion on Christianity and international violence
16. Thoughts on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
17. How introverts and extroverts benefit one another
18. Nine aberrant forms of Christian leadership
19. Four temptations for Christian leaders
20. Strong leader or bad pastor?
21. How strategic are your friendships?
22. LifeWay drops “warning labels” from certain books
23. The world is not against you; it’s waiting for you to succeed
24. Were Groupon’s offensive ads actually clever social satire?
25. A brief introduction to breathing
26. What happens if Banksy wins an Oscar?
27. Q&A with the NFLPA Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs
28. What Cubs game did Ferris Bueller attend on his day off?

Have a great weekend!

*inclusion of items on this list does not necessarily suggest my approval of or agreement with the linked material. I just think they add to the conversation.

Weekly Meanderings

I am going to take this opportunity to give my quarterly reminder that I do not necessarily approve of or agree with anything I post in the meandering. these are just things I think add to the conversation. That said, here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Blood lust and the Super Bowl
2. Super Bowl related “cardiac events”
3. Q&A with the authors of “Scorecasting”
4. Football and super Porn Sunday: part 1 and part 2
5. Does illicit sex exclude one from heaven?
6. On misogyny, abortion, rape, and the House of Representatives
7. Is adoption unnatural?
8. Why are there no women speakers at your Christian conference?
9. Are Protestants afraid of single pastors?
10. Thoughts on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral
11. What does the Bible teach about giving?
12. Was Jesus body “for” you or “broken” for you? – 1 Cor 11:24
13. The whole Bible in two sentences – Leviticus 26:11-12
14. Was the universe created “in motion”?
15. Islam, the Bible, and the phrase “Son of God”
16. Why there will be no “booty” in the New American Bible
17. Moral theology and Christian ethics
18. Why systematic theology?
19. Essential anime for theologians
20. Converting from Universalism to Seventh-Day Adventist
21. A review of “How to Die in Oregon
22. A review of “Marry Him: the case for settling for Mr. Good Enough
23. An interview with The Civil Wars
24. How long was Phil Connors stuck on Groundhog’s Dog?
25. Why allowing mistakes may help you avoid making mistakes
26. Ways to deal with “mamma guilt”
27. A graphical overview of the 2012 Republican presidential field
28. “Mubarak, Mubarak, what have you done?
29. What do the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia mean?
30. Stanley Fish’s top five sentences and a response

This is how you distract a free-throw shooter:

Have a great Super Sunday!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Stop throwing people away
2. Joel Osteen on homosexuality
3. Thoughts on homosexuality and Christianity
4. Christian perspectives on LGBT
5. Slavery and human trafficking at the Super Bowl
6. Should pastors stay out of politics?
7. Where are the female mentors?
8. Should there be a “Missionary Code of Conduct”?
9. Slang, swearing, and Christian witness
10. Converting from Southern Baptist to LDS
11. Worship God, not the Bible
12. Did Jesus pray, “Father, forgive them”?
13. Who was Theophilus?
14. A creator must believe they have the authority to create
15. Five simple steps to make teams more creative
16. Does your job really matter?
17. Don’t talk about working on a project, work on it
18. The gender of money
19. A review of “Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites and Other Lies You’ve Been Told
20. A review of “Beatrice and Virgil
21. A review of “The Rite
22. A review of “Throw It Down
23. Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam
24. “Up” as a 1960’s Disney live-action movie
25. The spiral of successful habits
26. Busy is easy, slowing down is hard
27. Does your family have a “house meeting”?
28. Living in the land of enough
29. How to cultivate vulnerability
30. The piano on the sandbar

Jake Shimabukuro plays “Bohemian Rhapsody” on ukulele:

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. The struggle with teaching our children about evil
2. Praying for the space shuttle
3. Why I don’t want to be a “Chinese Mother”
4. How they changed their mind about women
5. What happened when I tried to love God with my mind
6. John Piper and Jesse Jackson
7. Thoughts on spiritual pride
8. Bonhoeffer on asceticism
9. A missionary perspective on the American church
10. Everybody worships something
11. Some critical thoughts on the church’s need to over-inform
12. A review of “Church Planting is for Wimps
13. Why leaders cannot afford to be offended
14. Is leadership Biblical (a rebuttal)
15. Galatians as an example of spiritual direction
16. Ephesians 1:5 – adopted into the people of God
17. The “lost verses” of Proverbs 31
18. Luke 22:38 does not endorse violence
19. Translating sexuality in 1 Corinthians 6:9
20. Bible verses that cause questions
21. What if Richard Dawkins showed up in your Sunday School
22. Thoughts on translating the Bible
23. The evolution of Jesus on Wikipedia
24. Christian motifs in the mythology of Batman
25. Christian engagement with the arts
26. Flannery O’Connor and John Milton
27. How to publish your book on Amazon Kindle
28. A review of “One Thousand Gifts
29. Nine ways to boost your self-esteem
30. Four keys to stop worrying
31. What housework is really about
32. Unclutter by tackling the most annoying thing first
33. Clearing your digital clutter
34. Why your job is killing your creativity
35. Are NFL coaches learning from economists?
36. Building a chicken coop from recycled materials
37. Jurassic Park theme slowed 1000%

Happy Faces by David Hayward

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Explaining anti-intellectualism
2. Are Evangelicals getting dumber?
3. Reverse judgmentalism
4. The art of getting rejected
5. The tomb of Esther and Mordecai
6. Religion and sexual violence
7. On repealing the death penalty
8. Is your church open to autism?
9. Characteristics of a growing church
10. Is leadership Biblical?
11. Leadership at Pixar
12. The hidden power of humility
13. The benefits of learning peoples’ names
14. Get better service by learning peoples’ names
15. Toxic words can kill creativity
16. Adjusting mood to enable creativity
17. Why we quit and the potential benefits
18, We need margin
19. Can offensive art be Christian?
20. Being Elmo: a puppeteer’s journey
21. Response to “regrets of a stay-at-home mom”
22. The awful truth about fatherhood: I will fail
23. A snow day with the kids
24. What I’ve learned while unemployed
25. Do economists need a code of conduct (my opinion is no)
26. E-book trends to watch in 2011
27. The 100 best selling Christian books of 2010
28. A review of “Passport Through Darkness
29. The unspeakable word of Huck Finn
30. Home brewing beer
31. Top death metal band names from Leviticus 17

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. A letter to my son
2. Ricky Gervais on why he is an atheist
3. Tolkien and a traitor’s place in salvation
4. Surrogate Spirituality
5. When you can’t seem to read the Bible
6. Old Testament polygamy and the sanctity of marriage
7. The Pope and the Big Bang
8. What are the 12 days of Christmas?
9. Egyptian Muslims protect Christians at Coptic Christmas eve mass
10. The most significant cultural trends of the last decade
11. Is Church life stifling your creativity?
12. Free ways to unlock creative energy
13. Characters every team needs
14. The 4 relationships you need to succeed
15. A healthier way to view rejection
16. Free pornography book
17. The modern rules of Christian care and accountability (WARNING: this is sarcasm)
18. When does opinion become “hate”?
19. A review of “God the Peacemaker
20. A review of “A God-Sized Nation
21. A review of “Blue Valentine
22. A freelance writer’s manifesto
23. What’s your excuse for not achieving your goals
24. Killing, plucking, eviscerating, & cutting up your chicken (WARNING: a bit graphic)
25. Overcoming the winter blues
26. An interview with the man who removed the racially charged words from Huck Finn
27. Game Theory in child rearing
28. Where do you stand with the Olympian gods?
29. The Seattle Seahawks are not the worst playoff team ever
30. The late Aiden Binkley and his friend Mark Sanchez

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Happy 500th birthday KJV
2. Lancelot Andrewes: the chief KJV translator
3. Is the church’s captivity self-imposed
4. Stages of grief and the loss of your god
5. Fear is a good thing
6. The problem with assuming
7. If the earth was 10 feet closer to the sun
8. Kentucky creationist museum to feature dragons and unicorns
9. Where did all these “pre-tribs” come from
10. Your local Christian book store
11. Ken Starr and the future of Baylor University
12. Favorite books by women in 2010
13. A review of “The 100 Things Challenge
14. Top 10 books of 2010
15. Top 10 songs of 2010
16. Geek culture is dead
17. Putting together a “Tech Survival Kit”
18. Use RezScore to improve your resume
19. On repugnance and the trafficking of human organs
20. How Disney deals with lines
21. Best passive-aggressive notes of 2010 (WARNING: some offensive language)

Jesus being harassed by visitors by David Hayward

Have a great week!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Savior of the Nations, Come
2. Why is Christmas on December 25?
3. A thoughtful Merry Christmas from Bill Maher
4. Survey: Jesus is one of the reasons for the season
5. How different churches are celebrating Christmas
6. Mary’s Grammar: how can she sing that the Lord has done great things for her?
7. On Mary: faith and doubt
8. What is the “stay-at-home daughters” movement
9. The growth of an idea
10. Adam, Eve, and the anatomy of modern humans
11. Can a Christian teach biology?
12. A review of “A New Kind of Big
13. A review of “True Grit
14. The economics of baseball
15. The cognitive-visual strategies of top athletes
16. Will the census impact the 2012 presidential race?
17. Does WikiLeaks change everything?
18. Gifts are valued at less than their cost
19. Why the other checkout line always moves faster than yours

Have a great Christmas!

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