Last week, Dr. Albert Mohler interviewed former President Jimmy Carter about Carter’s new book The Lessons from Life Bible. This really is an interview, not a debate (though Dr. Mohler’s registers disagreement with him on some points during the conversation). You can read the transcript of the interview here, download the audio here, or listen below. [audio:http://albertmohler.com/media/audio/totl/Podcast/Thinking_In_Public_Jimmy_Carter.mp3] Here’s President Carter’s answer to Dr. Mohler’s question about the inspiration of scripture:
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Don’t Feed the Trolls
I can’t tell you how grateful I am that readers take time to visit and to read this site. My gratification only increases when people take time to comment. It is an honor and a privilege to have readers, and I am thankful for all of you. Since beginning this site in 2005, I have had a pretty laissez faire approach to moderating comments. Except for a filter that I set up to eliminate obscenities, my comments policy has been pretty open. I like for the comments section to be a rough and tumble place where opposing viewpoints can meet head-on and be debated. Anyone who has spent any time…
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Seven Simple Rules for Tweeting with Class
Chuck Fuller has some sage advice for Christians who use Twitter. He writes: Ethically, Christians must think of Twitter no differently than other forms of speech. The biblical instructions concerning one’s words broadcast from the mouth apply also to words broadcast over social media. Try reading James 3:1-12, and replace each instance of the word “tongue” with “Tweet.” Really. Do it. See what I mean?…
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Texas Christians raise money for ailing atheist critic
Kate Shellnut has this story at The Houston Chronicle blog, and I wish there were more stories like it. An atheist activist who dropped threats to protest an Athens, Texas, nativity scene after his health declined is now receiving aid from fellow atheists and the very group of Christians he opposed, according to reports on the Friendly Atheist blog.
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Kirk Cameron Responds to Firestorm about Piers Morgan Interview
Kirk Cameron sat for an interview with Ann Curry this morning. Currry asked him to comment on the firestorm that followed his recent comments about homosexuality during an interview with Piers Morgan. You can watch Cameron’s full response above, but this part stuck out to me:
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How an Affair Begins
Andrée Seu has a brief piece of warning about how an affair begins: A friend of mine told me that now she understands how adultery begins. She went to a woman’s house to drop off a package as a favor to someone, but the woman was not home. The husband was, and they exchanged pleasantries for a few moments. My friend noticed the carpentry project the man was working on and commented on his artistry. She asked him a few questions about it, and it didn’t take much to encourage him to spill forth for an hour and a half about every aspect of the work. It was fun. At…
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Santorum’s Roman Catholic Faith and Opus Dei
The Washington Post has a feature length article on Rick Santorum’s Catholic faith and, in particular, on his connection to the lay-renewal group called Opus Dei. I kept waiting for a reference to The Da Vinci Code, but thankfully it never came. Instead, the article tells the story of a man who began as a nominal Catholic but who has become committed to a conservative, Catholic position:
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A Jimmy Carter Study Bible
Former President Jimmy Carter has just published a study Bible based on his decades of service as a Sunday School teacher in a Baptist Church. It’s titled NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter, and it “takes Mr. Carter’s years of teaching Sunday school lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, GA, and meshes them with the text of the NIV Bible.” A synopsis on Zondervan’s website describes the book this way: The legacy of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who has been teaching directly from the Bible for over 65 years and has taken the Bible’s teachings seriously, implementing them into his life’s work. Now he…
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Mohler and Carson Talk about the Intolerance of Tolerance
Albert Mohler recently interviewed D. A. Carson about Carson’s new book The Intolerance of Tolerance. It’s a fascinating conversation, and I encourage you to take a listen. You can download the audio here or listen below. [audio:http://albertmohler.com/media/audio/totl/Podcast/Thinking_In_Public_Don_Carson.mp3]
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Be sure to read Ted Kluck’s footnotes!
Just a brief follow-up to my earlier post about Ted Kluck’s new book . I am a professor, and I am therefore a big fan of footnotes. It is my stock-in-trade, if you know what I mean. So please take my advice when I tell you to read all of the footnotes in Ted Kluck’s book. They are the most entertaining footnotes that you will ever read. Here’s a sample from the introduction of Dallas and the Spitfire where Ted goes to a coffee shop and first meets Dallas.