I previously had occasion to plug a conference hosted by our friends at Emmanuel in north London. I bring this up so that you may be apprised of the fact that they have had to change the dates. Just so you know .
He Has Done It Already
Everyone here wants things, and there is no problem with that. That is a design feature; it is how God made us. But there are frequently deep problems with how and why we want things. And the central problem is that we tend to want things that God gave to someone else, simply because that …
Bug Hunt
Okay, we have rolled over to our new format, for the most part. Like I said, some of you are not reading this because you live in a rural part of Internetistan, and all you can hear are the crickets. But in a day or so you will come over and you can catch up …
Murphy Lives
There’s always a glitch or two. We should be switching within a few hours — Lord willing and the crik don’t rise.
Femina
Speaking Schedule
Speaking Schedule stuff goes here…
Ministries
Maneuvering Room
The next chapter in Franke’s book is Chapter 8, “Scripture As the Word of God.” And technically, everything should be okay, because the words are all okay, but everything is so darn parsed, and I think I recognize maneuvering room when I see it. “The historic commitment of the church to the idea that Scripture …
Yeah. Like That.
The president said that the health care package that cleared the Senate was the most important social legislation since Social Security. Which was, as my daughter Rachel put, like saying we haven’t had weather this good since Katrina.
Stirring the Pan Ever More Vigorously
As I have written before, there are many political assessments that should be made on the basis of what everybody can see, and not on the basis of esoteric “insider” knowledge. Further, these judgments should certainly not be made on the basis of a paradigm powerful enough to invert what is obviously happening — powerful …