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Filed Under (Blogging, Culture) by Brent on 25-04-2007

Saying “Olly olly oxen free” or “olly olly in come free” or the variant of your choice to all the hiding gems of the internet. Every week, bringing you more distractions, ruminations, exclamations, impartations, hydrations, migrations and the like.

Browse Carey’s “Separated At Birth” section.

Read James White’s discussion of “The Spirit of KJV Onlyism.”

Have some fun and visit Pezcentral.com or the official Pez site.

Browse the State of the News Media 2006 report.

Read Scot McKnights’ “Is The Future of Evangelicalism With the SBC?”

Watch a live Tortoise performance from June 19, 2001 (Real Video).

Read a recent interview with Andrew (piano/flugelhorn) of Anathallo.

Read Denny Burk’s “Botched Abortions You Haven’t Heard About”.

Read as D.R. begins a series on “The State of Public Schools”.

Read Michael Bird’s helpful “Fundamentalist versus Liberal”.

Browse Purgatorio’s interesting collection of Time magazine covers featuring Jesus. Also browse his fantastic post featuring just a few snowflakes.

Check out the newly redesigned Grassroots Music website.

Get yer groove on with this live video of the Meters from 1974.

Read the New York Times piece about students pursuing seminary educations for “secular” employment. (ht: Reju Tribe).

Answer LifeHacker’s question “Where do you find new music on the web?”

Read Baptist Press‘ print version of Mark Coppenger’s review of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz entitled Blue Like Jazz and Berri-Blue Jello (ht: Denny Burk).

Read William Dembski’s post regarding a California school district that’s actually allowing Darwin to be criticized.

Read Ryan Bolger’s interesting post regarding “who gets to play” in worship, or how involvement increases participation (something that seems self-evident, doesn’t it?).

Read Mark Redfern’s “Lesbians, Losers and Loving Your Enemies”.

Read Will’s post regarding Kirk Franklin’s redemption from addiction to pornography.

Browse Tim Challies’ “Wednesday Miscellania,” which includes the following question about Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz: “Since when is autobiography an acceptable genre for Christian Spirituality?”, some interesting thoughts about the thoughts of Brian McLaren and everything but the kitchen sink.

Read “Books, People and Addictive Stimulants” at RightFaith.

Browse the growing lineup for this year’s Lollapalooza festival. I’m excited to see that both Mute Math and Anathallo are on the bill; certainly an exciting opportunity for both bands.

Read the Seattle Times‘ presentation of some new books on jazz.

Read Joe Carter’s fascination: “Sin On A Bun: The Forgotten Vice of Gluttony”.

Read Gary’s insightful and challenging “How We Worship: Ten Principles Which Guide Us On Sunday Morning”. Alright, so maybe I’m a bit biased here, but it really is a good piece!

Pray for Keith and Alicia as they’ve flown to China to pick up Ruth Ann. Follow their travel journal to see how and when to specifically pray for them.

See what I hear.

Freepay has changed its rules and imposed deadlines, so please, Please PLEASE, help us both earn a free laptop, a free Mac Mini, a free iPod video or a free iPod Nano. Come on, help a brother out….I now only have until May 30.

Read Andrew Jones’ “Emergent Elijah or Gideon,” in which, though not the focal point of the test, Andrew argues that Mordecai had a mullet.

Read Joe Thorn’s piece “The Ninth” in which he brings the Ninth Commandment to bear on blogging and charges of liberalism.

Read about the St. Paul city office, who, in a move towards the separation of church and state, recently removed a stuffed Easter bunny from their lobby. What’s truly preposterous is the claim that it was removed “because of concerns they might offend non-Christians.” Since when is a fictional bunny representative of my Risen Lord? I want it removed because it’s offensive to Christians!

Read “Discovering God’s Will” by Sinclair Ferguson.

Don’t forget to download Anathallo’s “Hymns” before it’s too late.

The Tate Britain Museum has come up with an interesting way to get people interested in art. Adopting the “mix tape” approach, they’ve categorized works of art into themes. Browse the I’ve Just Split Up Collection, or the Rainy Day Collection, or the Odd Faces Collection. You get the idea. Create your own collection.

Read about the “Religion of Peace” vowing that a convert to Christianity must die.

Read Chris’ brief post interacting with Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and read mine here.

Visit Dusty’s ever-hopeful of actually starting “Gospel Resurgence” blog and, please, leave a comment.

Read Rhett’s interesting (but in my opinion weak and eisegetical; love you Rhett!) and puritanically-long titled post “Gender Equality, Gender Roles and Women in Ministry: Should This Really Still Be An Issue in the Church? Miroslav Volf As An Opposing View To Those of Tim Challies, John MacArthur and Others…”

Hurry and register, the Together For The Gospel conference has announced that only 400 spaces remain available.

Ipoditude introduces Apple’s IPod Hi-Fi system.

Thomas Winborn asks the proverbial question “How many Christians does it take to change a lightbulb“?

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Comments:
3 Comments posted on "Town Crier (17)"
dusty deevers on March 24th, 2006 at 8:57 am #

Ha Ha Ha! Thanks Brent! I’m still hopeful along with you. Perhaps soon.


Rhett Smith on March 24th, 2006 at 3:31 pm #

hey, as long as you spell my name right :-)


Dusty Deevers on March 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pm #

Brent,

Just for you and your ability to motivate a blogless hopeful blogger, I posted this

Exploitation and Trafficking


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