Weekly Round-Up: From the Blogroll and Beyond...
This week in the blogosphere (or that little slice of it on which I keep an eye):
BW3 lists some actual examples of analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. Some are hilarious. Some are brilliant. Some are so intentionally bad that they are hilarious and brilliant (see #16).
Real Live Preacher speaks of wrestling with Scripture, in a "real live" way. It's a funny and wonderful example of what Peter Rollins is talking about here.
Mark Sayers is humble and insightful in listing 5 thing the Emerging Missional Church has gotten wrong. He's talking about the Australian version, not the American, "which I think is a very different creature." Maybe, but we'd be impoverishing ourselves if we didn't listen.
iMonk's birthday post was nothing short of a modern ecumenical parable. A wife's denominational change forces a husband to love more, or love better. Think about it.
Speaking of Roman Catholicism, Scot McKnight assesses the Vatican's decision to remove the word "Yahweh" from public pronunciation, liturgy and song. Is it just me, or is it wrong to think that if God would see fit to give us His son, He wouldn't mind so much if we uttered His name? I don't know, maybe I've got my next post topic here.
Kathy Escobar, in her own, usual, unique, brilliant way, combines a discussion about spiritual maturity and chocolate Easter bunnies. Can't get enough of Kathy's stuff.
Mark Van Steenwyk talks about charges of heresy and personal attacks in theological discourse online. Good stuff. Catchy title.
Speaking of catchy titles, Brother Maynard has one for his discussion on a disturbing new survey result: white evangelical Christians in the Southern U.S. are more likely to support torture as an information-extraction technique than is the general population.
Finally, did you know that only TWO questions about global poverty have ever been asked in the history of modern presidential debates? Help do something about that.
Grace and Peace,
Raffi
BW3 lists some actual examples of analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. Some are hilarious. Some are brilliant. Some are so intentionally bad that they are hilarious and brilliant (see #16).
Real Live Preacher speaks of wrestling with Scripture, in a "real live" way. It's a funny and wonderful example of what Peter Rollins is talking about here.
Mark Sayers is humble and insightful in listing 5 thing the Emerging Missional Church has gotten wrong. He's talking about the Australian version, not the American, "which I think is a very different creature." Maybe, but we'd be impoverishing ourselves if we didn't listen.
iMonk's birthday post was nothing short of a modern ecumenical parable. A wife's denominational change forces a husband to love more, or love better. Think about it.
Speaking of Roman Catholicism, Scot McKnight assesses the Vatican's decision to remove the word "Yahweh" from public pronunciation, liturgy and song. Is it just me, or is it wrong to think that if God would see fit to give us His son, He wouldn't mind so much if we uttered His name? I don't know, maybe I've got my next post topic here.
Kathy Escobar, in her own, usual, unique, brilliant way, combines a discussion about spiritual maturity and chocolate Easter bunnies. Can't get enough of Kathy's stuff.
Mark Van Steenwyk talks about charges of heresy and personal attacks in theological discourse online. Good stuff. Catchy title.
Speaking of catchy titles, Brother Maynard has one for his discussion on a disturbing new survey result: white evangelical Christians in the Southern U.S. are more likely to support torture as an information-extraction technique than is the general population.
Finally, did you know that only TWO questions about global poverty have ever been asked in the history of modern presidential debates? Help do something about that.
Grace and Peace,
Raffi
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