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.
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Ted Kluck’s New Book Is a Great Read
Ted Kluck has just come out with a new book titled Dallas and the Spitfire: An Old Car, an Ex-Con, and an Unlikely Friendship which he co-authored with Dallas Jahncke. I read this book a few months ago and thought it was fantastic. I highly recommend it to you. It’s a true story of discipleship, and in it Ted describes his relationship with a young ex-con named Dallas who has recently come to faith in Christ. Together they work on restoring a broken down car (a Spitfire), which becomes a metaphor for the rebuilding of a young man’s life. Here’s the blurb that I wrote for the book: Dallas and…
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John Piper’s Senior Sermon at Fuller Seminary
DesiringGod.org has just posted John Piper’s senior sermon from Fuller Seminary. The date is May 5, 1971 when Piper was 25 years old. He preached for nearly 19 minutes on Ephesians 1:6. What is remarkable about this sermon is its consistency with what Piper preaches now. It’s all about the glory of God. You can listen below or download here. [audio:http://cdn.desiringgod.org/resources/sermon/1971/John_Piper-Fuller_chapel_Ser.mp3]
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A Lesson on Raising Boys To Respect Women
If you are raising little girls or little boys, you should raise them as little girls or little boys. That means that you must be concerned to teach boys to become men, and girls to become women. Gender-neutral parenting is a fool’s errand and ignores the differences that God has created between the sexes. The implication of this is that if you want a son to grow up to treat women with respect and dignity, then you must teach him the lesson as a boy. He must learn from his parents that girls are different than boys and that little girls deserve special treatment.