The Weekly Town Crier
I know you’ve been waiting for this. I know you have. Don’t lie. We all have. It’s the highlight of the week! The Weekly Town Crier! Woohoo! This is where I collect for you some of the links that, for whatever reason, caught my attention and made me think and hopefully will make you think. Remember though, just because I link something, that doesn’t necessarily mean I endorse what’s on the other end, just that it made me think. Enjoy.
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Read an open letter to Barack Obama asking three probing questions about the relationship between “hope” and the unborn.
Read as the Wall Street Journal wonders about the increasingly symbiotic relationship between the SXSW music festival and advertising.
Read as Canada’s The Gazette profiles Leonard Cohen.
Read about the Vatican setting its sights on “new” sins such as polluting.
Read as Jeff Tweedy talks to The Australian about his band Wilco.
Read as Advertising Age examines the economics of bands licensing their music.
Read as Pitchfork announces the lineup for their 2008 festival.
Read about Keith Richards’ “Bible Study.” Apparently, he says, “I read the Bible sometimes but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bl**dy fascinating. Why are they all hung up on all that, ‘In the beginning’ stuff? Ah, well. At least life is stable. It has said the same thing since I was a kid.”
Read about Southern Baptists backing “a declaration calling for more action on climate change, saying its previous position on the issue was “too timid.”
Read about J.I. Packer’s suspension from the Anglican Church of Canada.
Here’s to you, “Preachers of Real Genius.”
Read as Books & Culture examines our fascination with music.
Read as Christianity Today examines a crisis facing the modern American church: a lack of young men actually being men.
Read as Christianity Today wonders exactly what makes a church “missional.”
Read about the CDC’s recent report that 1 in 4 teen girls carries an STD.
Read Christianity Today’s review of the new album from Ever Stays Red, On The Brink of It All.
Read the report that Sixpence None the Richer will reunite at this year’s SXSW festival.
Read about the record companies’ war on the web being named their biggest blunder ever.
Read as Al Mohler reflects on the recent CA rulings on homeschooling.
Read about a “draft statement by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America” that “shies from taking a position on homosexuality.”
The controversy about home-schooling in CA scares me a bit. I know that God will take care of my children no matter what happens, but I’m praying that they don’t succeed in doing away with or limiting homeschooling in CA - it will set a precedence for other states that could lead to the same thing here.
Thanks for the link to Al Mohler’s piece.