‘Political Correctness vs. Freedom of Thought - The Keith John Sampson Story’
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education …
‘How much does your blog cost to run?’
John Saddington, Church Crunch
Desperaux ‘noticeably different from a lot of other recent family flicks’
Josh Hurst, Christianity Today Movies
Rove: W. read 95 books in 2006, 51 in 2007, 40 last year
Karl Rove, WSJ (HT: Justin Taylor)
Extreme makeover
Around New Year’s Day, The Daily Scroll will be getting a facelift. Some changes you can expect:
- Three columns, all packed with useful info
- Headlines will replace conventional posts so that more can be packed onto the homepage
- Sections with videos and spiritual insights from bloggers, updated each day
In addition, a sister site of The Daily Scroll’s will be launched, offering material that is of interest to church leaders, more exclusively (pastors, seminarians, etc.). Thereafter, The Daily Scroll will focus on material that layfolk can appreciate.
Have a restful break, and please stop by again around January 1!
In Christ,
Chris
Merry Christmas from The Daily Scroll
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”
Galatians 4:4-5
Dave Bourgeois reviews Reynolds’s and Overton’s The New Media Frontier
… at his blog, Lessons from Babel
Ray Boltz’s new song, ‘Don’t Tell Me Who to Love’
Joanne Brokaw of Gospel Soundcheck discusses the origin and rationale behind Boltz’s new single. Boltz, a fairly well-known Christian artist, recently announced that he is gay.
Listen to ‘Don’t Tell Me Who to Love’.
How does God ‘discipline’ his children, according to the Greek of Hebrews 12:3-11?
Greek scholar Bill Mounce offers an explanation at the Koinonia blog:
“Paideuo has another meaning that is not necessarily connected to punishment. It is a standard word for child-rearing …”
O Horrifically Amateurish Night
Perhaps you’ve heard this (if so, I’m sorry):
(HT: Denny Burk)
Origin of the … um, ‘performance.’
Up with Rick
Two commendatory commentaries on the Rick Warren/Obama inauguration:
John Mark Reynolds writes ‘Rick Warren: A Public Educator Worthy of Honor’ at The Scriptorium:
“Rick Warren refuses to bow to the thoughtless assumptions of the American right or the American left. He flays the comfortable in both camps …”
And Justin Wise writes, “God bless Barack Obama for reaching out to Rick Warren. God bless Rick Warren for reaching out to Obama.”
Everything’s better in Koine [Greek]!
Funny video (HT: C. Michael Patton):
Video created by by Derek North and Nick Casucci at Biola University.
‘Mutilated Christian girl, 10, forgives attackers’
A story from WorldNet Daily (HT: Gene Veith):
“Hindu extremists may have burned a 10-year-old Christian girl’s face, inflicted shrapnel wounds on 40 percent of her body and forced her family to hide in a forest and flee to a refugee camp in Orissa, India, but her plight hasn’t shaken her faith and thankfulness to God this season …”
Read the entire story.
‘Why do conservative Christians have so many children?’
Two or Three’s Daniel G. offers six reasons conservative Christians have more children than liberals and non-Christians.
Review of Steve Farrar’s God Built
by John Starke, at the Gender Blog:
“Steve Farrar aims to beef up his reader’s theology. Farrar assumes his readers desire to become a stronger Christian man, and his advice to accomplish that is to learn what God’s providence is and how to trust in it. The titles of each of his chapter begin “He is in Control Over….” losses, events, broken hopes, etc. To become a stronger, godly man is to know and trust in the sovereign providence of God. Amen.”
