Beginning this and continuing every week I’ll post a collection of articles from the previous week that have caught my attention.
Brothers Together in Christ
I ran across this short article by Ray Ortlund. He suggest three ways in which God calls Christian men to love each other.
Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity
Nice article trying to understand why so many people care about Tiger Woods.
16 Daddy Christmas Tips
Mark Driscoll offers suggestions Dad’s may want to consider this Christmas.
A Colossal Fraud
John MacArthur begins a series on the fraud carried out in the name of Jesus by health and wealth preachers. ”In the weeks to come, we’re going to be looking at the preposterous claims and false teachings of some of religious television’s best-known figures. We’ll analyze why a disproportionate number of celebrity faith-healers and prosperity preachers have succumbed to serious immorality. And we’ll see what Scripture says about how Bible-believing Christians ought to respond.”
When “Gracious Restraint” Fails – The Real American Tragedy
Not surprisingly, The Episcopal Church in a spiritual, theological and moral free-fall for decades continues to spin into irrelevancy. In this article Al Mohler examines the failure to address in any substantive manner the problems within the denomination: “When truth is at stake, denominational etiquette is no basis for courageous leadership. A call for “gracious restraint” is no leadership at all.”
The Science of Football
Ever admire the beauty of a spiriling pass? Here’s a nice video clip of Sports Science partnering with Drew Brees examining the science of the thrown ball.
How the Internet is Changing our World
Trevin Wax gives 9 examples of the effect of the internet on our daily lives.
Going Rogue
Bob Kelleman reviews Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. He points out that for a biography written by a professed Christian, this one is awfully short on any explicit mentions of critical Christian concepts.
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I’m throwing this set of articles at your attention for next week
. They’re by a political and economic theorist that I follow named Mark T. Mitchell. Mitchell draws from some of my favorite thinkers, like Michael Polanyi and Wendell Berry. He’s a regular contributor to an excellent group blog called The Front Porch Republic (www.frontporchrepublic.com).
Here’s a money quote from a November Blogpost called “Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion, and the Limits of Localism” http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7063:
“Can a society survive if the vast majority of the populace do not share a common culture and together affirm a collection of common ideas? Is an affirmation of “liberty for all”—where liberty means the freedom from any constraint or authority—an adequate foundation for a society?
Or does, in fact, this sort of absolute liberalism consume itself in the very logic of its existence? Can a society exist when all that unifies it is the continual emancipation of desire? The obvious answer, it seems to me, is no. But where can one find a common culture? The affirmation of certain basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness devoid of any metaphysical conception of what it means to be a human being falls short. Rights claims without acknowledgment of obligations and ends suited to human beings are little more than emotivist utterances that can be asserted and expanded with ever-increasing shrillness and incoherence. This is precisely where we are today. The same-sex marriage “debate” is the logical outcome of a society steeped in the language of rights where the understanding of rights has been separated from any notion of the human person as more than a bundle of expanding appetites. Such a “debate” cannot be won by either side, for winning a debate implies rational discussion, but in an emotivist context, the only victory is gained by force.”
A related entry: “Third Party?”, outlining 10 positions of an alternative political party.
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=6971