Brent Campbell is an African American student at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and the captain of the university’s track team. In a recent incident on campus, Campbell was working out on the intramural fields, and five white men in a pick-up truck drove past and screamed racist threats at Campbell, saying “If we see you here again we’ll beat your f****** n***** a**!”

Carl Trueman has some important reflections on the normalization of pornography in Great Britain, but I think his observations apply to this side of the Atlantic as well. He writes: Internet pornography is probably the number one pastoral problem in the world today. I wonder if it is set to become yet more so: as the social shame dimension passes away, it will be harder to maintain discipline on this issue. The Christian church is currently mesmerized by developments relative to sexuality, not least because these development are couched in the rhetoric of civil rights and have serious legal implications. I wonder if a more serious and lethal internal issue…

I’m not sure what this song means, but I’m hoping for the best! You can pre-order the full album from Amazon.com. Or you can purchase the full album and download it from Webb’s website here. It’s titled “I was wrong, I’m sorry, and I love you.”

Joe Carter blasts what he calls “the worst religion story of the year.” The story in question appears in the NY Daily News, and it lampoons an evangelical family trying to plant a church in Brooklyn. Carter describes it this way: I should warn you of what to expect. Imagine a parody article like you’d find in the The Onion, only without the wit, humor, satire, or intelligence. But also a straight-news story and not a parody. In a (sorta) real newspaper. That makes you feel dumber for having read it… This is such bad reporting the paper ought to have to return one of their ten Pulitzer Prizes as penance.…

Earlier this week, I posted a brief note about the PCUSA’s decision to exclude the hymn “In Christ Alone” from their new hymnal. The authors of the hymn refused to give permission to exclude a reference to the wrath of God, so the editorial committee decided to exclude the hymn. I have received some feedback from readers questioning whether this account of things is accurate. So I thought it might be helpful to hear from one of the committee members themselves. Committee member Mary Louise Bringle describes the committee’s decision-making process in The Christian Century. She writes,

In February, Jim Hamilton mixed it up with Sam Waldron and Gary DeMar in a “symposium” about the book of Revelation (see trailer above). It looks like a fantastic event, but the only way to access it is to purchase the audio or video, which you can do here.