Study finds recession hasn’t affected church attendance
March 13, 2009
Pew Forum (HT: Sam Hodges, Religion Blog)
‘Soccer is running America into the ground, and there is very little anyone can do about it’
March 5, 2009
Stephen H. Webb, First Things (HT: Kevin Davis)
‘Raping the Innocence of Generation Z’
March 3, 2009
Kent Shaffer, Church Relevance
Horton’s Christless Christianity shows ‘the death of truth in the substitution of experience that is so widespread in the evangelical world today’
March 3, 2009
Amazon: Michael Horton, Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
Survey: Only 11% of Americans believe world will end in their lifetime
February 18, 2009
Baptist Press (HT: Civitate)
Scot McKnight: Twenge’s Generation Me ‘devastatingly insightful’
February 6, 2009
African Americans ‘markedly more religious’ than U. S. population as whole
February 2, 2009
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (HT: Sam Hodges, Religion Blog)
Gallup survey: Mississippi most, Vermont least religious of states
January 30, 2009
Adelle M. Banks, Religious News Service, USA Today (HT: Cory Miller, Church Communications Pro)
‘How to Take Over America’
January 6, 2009
Remembering the Y2K panic
January 6, 2009
‘Why do conservative Christians have so many children?’
December 22, 2008
Two or Three’s Daniel G. offers six reasons conservative Christians have more children than liberals and non-Christians.
Weekend Walkabout, December 20, 2008
December 20, 2008
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
“All” Always Means ALL. Right? - Phil Johnson
A Bad Sign - The Sacred Sandwich
CCM Magazine’s Top Ten Artist Blogs of 2008 (HT: Worship.com)
Don’t Waste Your Sexuality - Josh Harris
The Elvis-Beatles Relativity Fallacy - Rod Dreher
“Free” Christian music downloads from CompassionArt - Gospel Soundcheck
Glorifying God in Our Christmas Shopping - Tony Reinke
“Does my gift serve the soul of the recipient?”
How Hellish is ‘Time Out’? - Russell Moore
If Only it Were That Clear - Mark D. Roberts
Jonestown and the Reformed Movement - R. Scott Clark
“As weird and impossible as Jonestown seems today, what happened to them and what they did to themselves, is not utterly unrelated to ideas, causes, and personalities in the Reformed movement over the last three decades.”
Killing is My Business, and Business is Good - Paul Manata
Lewis’s Famous Essay on Bulverism (HT: Victor Reppert)
Martin Luther’s Christmas Book - Between Two Worlds
No Good Reason - Cerulean Sanctum
“In sorting through this clothing, the realization that I throw away just about nothing hit home.”
Online Community…Does it exist? YES! But I Think You Are Asking the Wrong Question - Rhett Smith
Phillips Daylight Window Concept Presentation - Joshua Sowin
Q+A :: How many U.S. churches exist? - Church Relevance
Reflections from a Church Pianist - Amy Scott
“When I have a brain freeze at a bad time, I’ve got a special look for the other musicians that asks, ‘What are you people thinking, man?’”
Six Christmas Poems - Marcus Goodyear
Tim Challies Day - Justin Taylor
Unpacking forgiveness in real life - Dan Phillips
Volition: A Short Film - Jonathan Ignacio
“It is a fifteen minute film focusing on three of the worst atrocities of human rights this world has faced.”
Why read through Calvin’s Institutes in 2009? - Ligon Duncan
Xmas Giveaway - Trevin Wax
“For the next ten days (Dec. 15-25), you have the opportunity to register to win all ten of my favorite books this year. Plus, an ESV Study Bible. That’s $260 worth of books!”
You Should Subscribe - Green Baggins
Zeitgeist as Agent? - Pseudo-Polymath
“Consider … for a moment the intelligent ant colony … from the ant’s perspective … here with man as ant. “
Do you think church s**ks?
December 19, 2008
If so, there is a place where you can say so … and tell what it is about church that makes you so grumpy.
(HT: Church Marketing [Stinks])
Among UK youth, Simon Cowell more famous than God
December 19, 2008
… according to a Daily News story (HT: Kris Rasmussen)
I found this interesting:
“‘Being fat’ tops the list in the category of the ‘very worst things in the world’ among the tween set, and when asked what they would do if made king or queen of the world, a ban on divorce was the most popular answer.”
Not all screens are created equal
December 17, 2008
At Culture11, Alan Jacobs responds to an essay by Christine Rosen in which she laments the multiplication of various screens in the lives of we 21st century humans: computer, phone, TV, etc. (see ‘People of the Screen‘).
Jacobs says not so fast …
“There is no such thing as ‘the screen’; there are screens, plural, and they are not all the same.”
Read his entire post, in which he recommends Albert Borgmann’s work, Holding On to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium, to gain some proper perspective on new technologies.
