Well, if this isn't a visual illustration of falling from pride into the pits....Watch footage from a skydiver's camera. He accidentally dropped it as he prepared to jump. It was found and returned to him by a farmer and that's when he recovered the footage. The footage will probably show up in a sermon on pride one day...
WSJ says Baylor is the “Charleston” in the Big Dance. Do you agree with the dance types of the remaining teams in your bracket?
HGTV is in Austin filming Jen Hatmaker's family for an upcoming summertime show. Sounds like it will be a fun program. CT recently interviewed her.
Having said that, Hatmaker's not my go-to blogger on everything. For example, she so missed the point of evangelical opposition to World Vision's new (brief) stance toward employees in gay marriages. As usual, the "I'm-so-tired-of-haters" blog post is an easy way to look like you're engaging with a controverisal issue while not really enaging with the the core concern. And if I'm reading her blog post right, it seems her basis for Christian unity is to admit that whatever one believes about homosexuality is just one of several equally valid ways to read Scripture. Not buying this line of reasoning myself. Practicing the biblical sexual ethic is the tough part, not exegeting it.
In 24 hours World Vision announced--and then reversed--a decision to allow people in gay marriages to work for the organization. Justin Taylor summarizes a few reactions from evangelicals, including from our denomination's Russell Moore. I particularly liked the thoughtful series of tweets from Matthew Lee Anderson.
"From my earliest days of faith, I accepted the Scriptures' right to speak. I also owned my deaf ear. When it comes to reading and interpreting God's Word, the only real confidence I've maintained is in my own sinful hostility. Perhaps holiness was nearer in the answers I would rather refuse. With this approach, many years into marriage, I—a headstrong, egalitarian woman—embraced a complementarian reading of 1 Corinthians 11:3: "But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God." I sought the truth—and made an interpretive decision." You should read CT's "The Accidental Complementarian." I've always objected to the convoluted titles "egalitarian" and "complementarian" in discussing this issue, but until they come up with friendlier words, you should at least know what they're talking about. This article is from a former "egalitarian" who let Scripture do the leading and found herself in the "complementarian" viewpoint.
Ross Douthat explains why liberals need to take religious liberty seriously and not see it simply as what Emily Bazelton has criticitzed as a "shield fundamentalists are throwing up against, well, sexual modernity."
Plantiga: "Few people grasp the preacher's challenge. Where else in life does a person have to stand weekly before a mixed audience and speak to them engagingly on the mightiest topics known to humankind: God, life, death, sin, grace, love, hatred, hope, despair and the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Who is even close to being adequate for this challenge?"
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