UK: Muslim boy scouts may pledge allegiance to Allah

“Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer … takes the reader through The Book of Common Prayer as a method of spiritual formation.”

Changing With the Times - Philip Schroeder

“You all probably know the truism: ‘Methodology changes, but the Message remains the same’ …”

Download Nine Advent Worship Goodies - TallSkinnyKiwi

Evangelicals Lose Ecumenical Friend in Catholic Theologian’s Death - Jeremy Weber

Futures for Anglicanism: aka Breaking Up is Hard to Do (But Sometimes Necessary) - Chris Dierkes

Going Old School, sort of - Launching A Radio Show - Doug Pagitt

Happy Birthday to ME! - Carla Rolfe

“If you’re a fellow 24 fan like me (or know of someone who is), this makes a great Christmas gift idea.”

I Need a Blogging Buddy and So Do You - John Saddington

The Jesus Project - Dan Wallace

“Reading between the lines, it seems that this group will offer up an even more radical fare than the Jesus Seminar did.”

Kate Gosselin of ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ Shares Her Favorite Christmas Traditions - Dena Ross

Little Drummer Boy - Jake Bouma

Muslim Lawyer: ‘Christmas is the pathway to hell’ - Cranmer

NRB head: Sex abuse scandal? It’s history. Really. - David Gibson

Obama’s Iranian observers - Erin Manning

“I was never very appreciative of the saber-rattling on the right over Iran; but the threat of a nuclear Iran is a serious one, not something to take lightly.”

Pumpkin Squares - Rebecca Stark

Q Conference Meetup & Discount - Kevin D. Hendricks

“This is not a bells and whistles hipster event with big names and games. It’s a strategic gathering of thinkers and doers who want to see change and bring change.”

Radiocarbon dating contradicts geological time scale, supports young earth - Daniel G, two or three

So long, Sola? - Nic Paton

Ten Differences Between the Reformation and Rome - Guy Davies (Reformation Theology)

The Uniqueness of Jesus’ Birth - Darrell Bock

Vanilla Holiday - Pseudo-Polymath

What?! (Rick Warren on Hannity & Colmes) - Dan Phillips

Xmas Has Pagan Roots ::: So What? - Theophilogue

“The music you listen to, the way your calendar and clock measures time, the names you use to refer to various planets in the universe, etc., all have ties to pagan religion.”

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up - Justin Wise

“You are looking at a picture of some Christians praying over the Bull outside of the New York Stock Exchange …”

Zimbabwe: Time for South African Government To Do Something - Mark Daniels

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Weekend Walkabout: December 6, 2008

December 6, 2008

26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):

Afterlife in the Old Testament: The Scholarly Consensus? - Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Bible Memorization Worksheet 2009 - Triablogue
Converging the Web and Desktop - ChurchCrunch
Different Isn’t Wrong … - Justin Wise
Encouragement for Trans-Racial Adoption Anxiety - Vitamin Z
Fox News Conservative? - Russell Moore
Grand Duke Henri’s Last Stand - Rod Dreher
Hate Your Enemy? - Greg Gilbert, Church Matters
Innocent Suffering - DesiringGod blog
J.K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales for Wizards (and Muggles) - Sherry Huang, Idol Chatter
Korea - 1 Day Left - Let’s Start Right - Human3rror
Lay Worship - The Sacred Sandwich
My Two Cents #123 - Osama Bin Lego and other Islamic fare - Daniel G. two or three
No Food, Drink or Levity Allowed in the Sanctuary - Motte Brown, Boundless
Our Problem with the Old Testament - Justin Taylor
Pithy Pre-pastorate Pastoral Pointers - Dan Phillips
Quantum of Follies - Dayo Olopade, Culture11
Russian Patriarch Dies - Susan Wunderink, Christianity Today liveblog
Short Saturdays - Who needs our money? - Stuff Christians Like
Things we should be doing - Amy Scott
Ultimate 80’s Medley - Denny Burk
Video of My Sermon on the Bible - Adrian Warnock
Wanted: Kindness - Carla Rolfe
20 EXcellent Free Rich-Text Editors - Webdesigner Depot
Yes, the terrorists targeted Jews - Daniel Pulliam, GetReligion
Zacharius Ursinus - Theopedia article (Z’s are always hard to find … but it will be worth your while to learn something about Ursinus, a contemporary of Martin Luther)

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Muslims attack Christians in Jos, Nigeria

December 2, 2008

Several hundred are dead following an election which some Muslims believe was rigged by Christians. The Christianity Today liveblog reports, with this excerpt from a BBC eyewitness account:

“I could see the burning houses, all the smoke and hear the gunshots. Women were running away carrying their children, clothes, foodstuffs and water. Men were using petrol to douse the grass-roofed houses and then lighting with a match. I could hear shouts of “Allahu Akbar”.

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Audio: Michael Haykin on the history of Islam

November 15, 2008

Find a link at Haykin’s blog. Ian Clary shares this recommendation on Haykin’s seminar:

“A year or so ago I attended Sola Scriptura Ministries’ Toronto conference on Islam. The key note speakers were Thabiti Anyabwile, James White and Michael Haykin. While all of the talks were great, Dr. Haykin’s stood out. He offered an historical survey of the rise and conquest of Islam concluding with an early Christian response to this religion from the writings of John of Damascus.”

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“Popes Testify that Catholicism and Islam Worship the Same God”

November 14, 2008

A post by ‘TurretinFan’ at the Alpha & Omega Ministries blog:

“Occasionally, I point out that one of the biggest reasons to reject the doctrines of Rome, is that Vatican II dogmatically taught that God and Allah are the same: that Muslims worship the one true God. As well, Vatican II teaches the Jews worship the one true God. This doctrine is false. Those who reject the Son of God reject God, and both religious Jews and Muslims do reject the Son of God. I get a variety of reactions from those who are part of the Roman church when I point this out … “

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We remember Mansuur Mohammed, our brother in Christ

October 30, 2008

The Alpha & Omega Ministries blog shares a story from Compass Direct News about a Christian worker in Kenya who was killed by militant Muslims last month:

“Muslim extremists from the al Shabab group fighting the transitional government on Sept. 23 sliced the head off of Mansuur Mohammed, 25, a World Food Program (WFP) worker, before horrified onlookers of Manyafulka village, 10 kilometers (six miles) from Baidoa.”

[Let us pray for Mohammed's family and for other believers in Kenya -- and for the men who did this. Pray that God would have mercy on them and lead them to the truth (Matt. 5:44) - Admin]

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BBC director general: Muslims to be treated with more sensitivity than Christians

October 18, 2008

The Telegraph story.

“Mark Thompson claimed that because Muslims are a religious minority in Britain and also often from ethnic minorities, their faith should be given different coverage to that of more established groups.”

Cranmer responds:

“But what irritates Cranmer perhaps the most in the debate over the BBC’s religious output is that he is forced to pay for it through the TV licence: he is obliged to watch his fellow Christians, the Holy Bible, the beloved Church, the holiness of God and the Lord Jesus being ridiculed, despised, trashed and spat upon, while Allah, Mohammed, Muslims and the Qur’an are treated ‘differently’.”

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