A puritan poem about smoking?
March 9, 2009
Read it at Christians in Context
Tim Challies asks: ‘Is smoking sinful?’
February 19, 2009
Saints who sipped
February 2, 2009
Blogger Mark Nenadov cites ‘voices throughout history which have advocated the legitimacy of moderate consumption of alcohol for the Christian’ (HT: Ian the Ruminator)
Who’s up for a list?
December 19, 2008
The lists come out like snowflakes near the end of the year, don’t they? Here are a few you might be interested in:
- Ten Important Archaeological Discoveries in 2008 Related to the Bible - Claude Mariottini (HT: Todd Bolen)
- Top 10 Emergent/Missional/Post-Evangelical Blog Posts of 2008 - Raffi Shahinian (HT: TallSkinnyKiwi)
- Top 11 Holiday Libations - James Poulos
- Not Just Another Christmas List - girltalk
There’ll be others before January 1, I assure you.
A ‘burnt offering’: smoking for God’s glory
October 17, 2008
Jared Wilson offers “20 Ways to Smoke Cigars to the Glory of God“.
See also this essay by Pyromaniac Phil Johnson: “Spurgeon’s Love of Fine Cigars“.
God and beer
October 16, 2008
A story about both — no kidding (HT: Crunchy Con).
“When Brock Wagner was looking to name his new brewery in Houston 14 years ago, his search took him to the library of a local Catholic seminary. There, he found the story of St. Arnold of Metz, the French saint of brewers and one of many patron saints of the brewing arts. … As the tale goes, Arnold (580-640) urged his people, ‘Don’t drink the water, drink beer’ because he believed water boiled in beer was safer than tainted water sources.”
