Fri 21 Mar 2008
Hello. I hope you’re well and had a nice and productive week. I know how it can be. Sometimes life can be stressful and can get you down. But don’t fear; I’ve got just the thing for your aching typing fingers. Why don’t you put them to rest for a bit (well, except for your mouse-clicking finger) and examine some of the things that interested me over the past week. Hopefully they’ll interest you too. But keep in mind that just because I link, that doesn’t mean I necessarily endorse, just that it made me think. Enjoy.
See what I hear at Last.fm.
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Listen to this guy’s testimony and win a car?
Read about Tim Keller’s book The Reason for God reaching number 07 on the New York Times Best-seller list.
Read about Barack Obama distancing himself from some of his pastor’s remarks.
Read about many U.S. Catholic college leaders expecting a rebuke from the Pope.
Read about LDS Missionaries vandalizing a Catholic shrine.
Read about Dutch officials who “permit gay sex in public areas but fine dog owners who let their pets off the leash in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark.”
Read about Ontario’s Education Minister hiring a “”homophobia” watchdog.”
Read about Japanese ISP’s plans to ban anyone from the Internet caught file-sharing.
Check out our new family blog.
Read about why Acts 29 thinks “Mark Dever is Cool.”
Read as Barna asks Americans to identify their most important relationships, and finds that God is not at the top of the list.
Read about the BBC television series planned about Jesus.
Read as one Narnia fan prepares for Prince Caspian.
Read as Reuters examines the growing trend of indie labels taking digital downloads into their own hands.
Read as the Vatican says that the social effects of sin are greater than ever.
Read about the increasing trend of people confessing their sins, not in church, but online.
Read about the increasing malady of internet addiction and how many people are becoming less and less connected to reality as a result.
Read about a shocking problem among the youth of Chile.
Read about the French woman’s whose request for euthanasia was denied.
Read as J.I. Packer reminds us to “count our surprises.”
Read about the recent poll finding that life in Iraq is getting better all the time.
Read about China blocking access to YouTube after the recent riots in Tibet.
View Paste’s most recent newsletter online.
Participate in World Water Day.
Read as Al Mohler considers the recent survey finding that “87% of Americans believe in the concept of sin, defined as “something that is almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective.”
Read this piece from The Christian Post which claims that “The number one reason for pursuing the increasingly popular multi-site strategy is evangelism, not bigger attendance numbers, say church pastors who are at the forefront of the multi-site movement.”
Read about the Canadian sociologists who claim that “many men prefer pale, “innocent-looking” women, while women overall prefer dark, brooding types of men.”
Read and consider as Time examines “Ten Ideas That Are Changing the World.”
Read as Time examines the trend of “Re-Judaizing Jesus.”
Read as Entertainment Weekly considers “indie rock.”
Check out P.O.D’s site for their new album, When Angels and Serpents Dance, their first for Columbia Records. Preorder the album and get lots of special treatment.
Read about Missouri Southern Baptists attacking Acts 29 again over the issue of alcohol.
Read this article that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association over 20 years ago that goes into (graphic) detail of Jesus’ death.
Read as USA Today wonders whether the “notion” of sin has been lost.
Read as the New York Times considers the renewed outrage from the “Religion of Peace” as many Danish newspapers have decided to reprint editorial cartoons of Muhammad.
Congratulate the Wolters on the birth of their new son!
Get your very own Habañero Hour button! Everyone is wearing them. You know you want one.
on 21 Mar 2008 at 3:13 pm 1.Dave said …
Regarding Missouri and alchohol: How can you have a rule that would have excluded our Savior from planting a church in your state and from getting funding from your denomination. Have we surpassed Him in holiness?
Loco.