The Weekly Town Crier
Another week has gone by and what do we have to show for it? More links. More links and more links. Here’s to you, Weekly Town Crier. This is where I collect for you some of the things that caught my eye this past week and, for some reason, made me think long enough to think that it might cause someone else to think, and hence, it’s presence here. Linking does not equal endorsing. Enjoy.
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Read as Billboard ponders the closing of two music magazines: Harp and No Depression: “For a certain section of the indie world focused on a more mature, college-educated demographic, the loss of Harp and No Depression hit especially hard.”
Read as MSNBC considers the “digital future” of many record labels: “The record labels are experimenting online in part because they have to. CD sales declined more than 18% in 2007 from the prior year, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan.”
R.I.P. Charlton Heston.
Read about Tanzania’s president condemning “witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity.”
Read about Bob Dylan’s Pulitzer Prize.
Browse the week in photos from Yahoo.
Read about Tony Blair saying that “that religion must be rescued from extremism and irrelevance and used as a force for good at a time of global turmoil.”
Read about the man, formerly a woman, who is now six months pregnant?
Read this piece that says that more than “one-quarter of 8-11 year olds in the UK have a profile on a social networking site.”
Read about the pursuit to build a “faster internet.”
Read about police saying that rosaries are becoming one of the newest gang symbols.
Browse as New York Magazine profiles their “canon’s” of pop and jazz.
Read as Reuters considers the greatest guitar riffs of all time.
Browse the Flickr group that collects Penguin book covers.
Read as The Independent profiles one of the strangest jobs: “iPod nannie.”
Read as Wired reports that Charles Manson is releasing his newest album under the Creative Commons license.
Read as Greg Gilbert reflects on the trend of “voting” in churches.
Read as Doug Groothius draws some reflections from Francis Schaeffer.
Read as Christianity Today considers Westminster Theological Seminary’s recent suspension of Peter Enns.
Read about the “generational shift” of evangelicalism.
Read about the recent research into what Muslims really think.
Read as the Chicago Tribune considers music festivals.
Read about the trend of people keeping pet moneys instead of having children. Monkids. Seriously.
Read about NASA’s plans to put astronauts on Mars. Because that’s what we should be spending billions of dollars on, right?
Read about the recent Canadian study finding that adults spend more time online than teens.
Read this piece citing Americans saying that the Bible is their favorite book.
Read about the growing trend of hotels refusing nightstand Bibles (It’s our favorite book, just not to read).
Watch this piece about the baby with two faces that is being worshiped as a goddess.
Read about Last.fm’s recent move to post free streaming songs, and the result: “since Last.fm started streaming full songs, their music sales have increased 119%.” The piece notes: “Contrary to what the labels would have you believe, it appears that free music is, in fact, good for the industry, leading to increased revenue.” As always, See what I hear at last.fm.
See the T-Shirt chronicling the evolution of the Mac.
Read as the New York Press wonders how “indie” became “adult contemporary.”
Read about the meeting between open theists and scientists at Azusa Pacific.
Read Pitchfork’s review of the new album from Sun Kil Moon.
Read as Willow Creek really upsets the “Christ-centered people.”
Download the new episode of the Bored Again Christian.
Concerning the Dr. Enns debacle…
You might also link Carson’s interaction with I & I, as well as Pratt’s and Beale’s writing/speaking against the issues raised. Many blogs have exhausted nearly every issue, but two that paint the sides well are saveourseminary and greenbaggins.
On the out-and-out, I found it VERY telling that the one student supporter that CT highlighted is on his way to Princeton. That speaks volumes to what Enns was teaching, and where such thinking leads.
Thank you for the link to Doug Groothius’ reflections about the work of Francis Schaeffer. Schaeffer’s writings have always been inspiring to me. His expressions were broad, but always focused upon Christian love and compassion.
Brent, many thanks for the plug! You’re a great podcasting peer.
I read the article on the meeting between open theists and scientists at Azusa Pacific.
I am all for the meshing of theology and science but open theology?
How widely accepted is open theology and Brent, do you ascribe to it?
Jody, Open Theism is actually not widely accepted. That is part of the reason I linked to that piece, it was just quite odd. No, I do not ascribe to it. A good response to Open Theism that I would recommend would be the books by Bruce Ware on the topic.