Fri 29 Sep 2006
Yes, yes yes, here we are another week in the bag, more days under the bridge flowing like the proverbial water. Consider this sort of like your pool strainer, capturing all of the little floating things clogging up the filters of your computer. The Weekly Town Crier strains the good bugs from the bad for your browsing pleasure.
Watch the recent interaction between Chris Wallace and Bill Clinton in which Clinton tells Matthews, “You got that little smirk on your face, and you think you’re so cleaver…” Good journalism; good entertainment. Neil Postman would be proud.
Browse Educated Nation’s “Top Ten Web Tools For College Students.”
Read the two (here and here) public statements from Ligonier Ministries about its recent decision to withdraw legal proceedings against a blogger going by the name of “Frank Vance” (apparently not his true identity).
Read this post reporting that Dr. Francis Beckwith has in fact been granted tenure by Baylor University (ht: JT).
Read Justin Taylor’s post of George Orwell’s “Rules for Clear Writing.”
Read Joe Carter’s “Open Letter to the Religious Right” which includes the admonition: ‘Being Right doesn’t mean we are always right. I know we claim we understand that but it would probably help if we acted like we believed it as well.”
Read Allmusic’s review of the newest collaboration between personal favorite Medeski Martin and Wood with guitar great John Scofield, Out Louder.
Read Christianity Today’s review of the new Chris Tomlin album as well as their review of the new one by By the Tree (not quite so favorably reviewed!).
Look into my ears and see what I’ve been listening to at the Last.fm site which uses a plugin called “Audio Scrobbler” to track the music you listen to and then make recommendations on your established listening patterns.
Send a Bible to China through VoM’s “Bibles Unbound” program.
Become a drug dealer and help distribute AIDS medicines to Africa.
Read Michelle Malkin’s piece chronicling the decline of singer Charlotte Church from having the “voice of an angel” to having the “mouth of a sewer rat.”
Read the American Spectator’s piece noting the continued move to push for the “right” to murder the unborn.
Read this Baptist Press piece about the “Joshua Convergence,” a move by SBC leaders to capture and maintain the support of “younger” pastors.
Subscribe to Salvo, the print project from online journal Crux.
Read Russell Moore’s piece A Breeding Heart Conservative in which he wonders about the connection between having children and maintaining a conservative theological position.
Read Andree Seu.
Read Jeremy Casella’s update on the recording process for his new album.
Read and reflect as Taylor Worley offers some quotes from Nicholas Wolterstorff regarding the relationship between faith and art.
Download Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The orchestra has severed their relationship with their former record label, they’re moving the recordings to digital format and to promote the move, they are making this recording avaialbe for free for a limited time.
Read the Philadelphia Inquirer’s interview with Sufjan Stevens.
Browse Yahoo’s list of banned books.
Read Wikipedia’s (disputed) entry concerning the “Loudness Wars” amongst CD manufacturers.
Browse this list of “essential Mac applications.”
Read Greg Gilbert’s review of Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now for 9Marks Ministries. The helpful review begins: “Someone might legitimately raise the question why we are reviewing this book. After all, the pattern here at 9Marks has been that we review Christian books. I suppose we must be branching out now, because Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now is decidedly not one of those. Open the book to any random page, and you will likely find some mention of God or even a reference to Scripture. Yet that is just window-dressing.”
Read Bob Kauflin’s thoughts about the Cross in worship.
Read Justin Taylor’s post regarding the new ESV Daily Reading Bible.
Read Rhett’s post regarding what many pastors read.
Read Jim Hamilton’s post regarding “Books Every Seminary Graduate Should Have Read.”
Watch this video linked by Denny Burk of Carter Beauford drumming.
Read Mark Moore’s thoughts on Joyce Meyer at the bookstore (ht: ML).
Read Clarke’s thoughts about how great our God truly is.
on 29 Sep 2006 at 7:08 am 1.johnMark said …
Bro, I believe it’s Chris Wallace not Chris Matthews in the Clinton interview.
Nice list to read through.
Thanks,
Mark
on 29 Sep 2006 at 7:19 am 2.Brent said …
You’re right. Sorry about that. Wallace, Matthews, who can keep them all straight?
on 29 Sep 2006 at 11:52 am 3.Amber said …
Well, the list of books that I read in school that kids can’t read in school these days just keeps getting longer and longer. What is this world coming to? ;)
on 29 Sep 2006 at 1:13 pm 4.Tony Kummer said …
A Message for “Some” Young Preachers from the Joshua Convergence! This is one video “highlight” from the event.
on 29 Sep 2006 at 1:47 pm 5.Brent said …
Tony, thank you.
I’m not sure if I would be one of those “young preachers” who needs to put my hands over my mouth or not. I’m sure some might think so!
There is so much wrong with this that I’m not sure where to begin and I’m sure a text-box won’t do it justice.
He cuts off all criticism as arrogant and then says that these “young preachers’ who are genuinely concerned about the state of the Convention are actually the reason we don’t have “Holy Ghost revival…”
Not to mention the misguided but surely passionate appeal to Job, with the tone that I ought to humbly acknowledge the “conservative resurgence,” bow down to it and never question because I wasn’t old enough to vote at the convention…
I thought this “convergence” was meant to encourage young ministers…
on 30 Sep 2006 at 6:09 am 6.John said …
So were those two Ligonier Ministries public statements supposed to be apologies for having violated 1 Cor. 6 by suing a brother in Christ?
Apparently Ligonier has learned nothing from their colossal blunder. The Orlando Sentinel just did an interview with Ligonier’s attorney and guess what came out? Ligonier is planning on suing Frank Vance again!