Well this is really annoying. Apple has removed the Manhattan Declaration app from iTunes App Store in response to claims that the app was anti-gay. I’m not kidding. Read about it here (HT: James Kushiner). Chuck Colson, Robert George and Timothy George have written a letter to Steve Jobs about the removal of the MD app from the iTunes store. They promise to write an update when they receive a response. Here’s the statement that they released to supporters of the Declaration.
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Enter Rob Plummer
My friend and colleague Rob Plummer has just entered the blogosphere. Besides being a professor of New Testament at Southern Seminary, Rob is an elder at Sojourn Community Church and the author of the blockbuster book 40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible. One of his first posts is an excerpt from his recent ETS paper, and it’s titled “Taco Bell and Biblical Interpretation.” See, you’re already hooked!
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Blindly Partisan and the Worse for It
Ross Douthat has an insightful word in today’s New York Times about the brain-stultifying effects of hyper-partisanship. He writes: “Up to a point, American politics reflects abiding philosophical divisions. But people who follow politics closely — whether voters, activists or pundits — are often partisans first and ideologues second. Instead of assessing every policy on the merits, we tend to reverse-engineer the arguments required to justify whatever our own side happens to be doing. Our ideological convictions may be real enough, but our deepest conviction is often that the other guys can’t be trusted.” Douthat argues that the controversy over TSA searches would have gone differently had a Republican been…
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Yoga Redux
Last month, I posted a brief note about an article by Albert Mohler arguing that the practice of Yoga is incompatible with the Christian faith. The Associated Press covered Mohler’s article and subsequently set-off a tempest of controversy with Yoga practitioners across the country. Many Christian Yoga devotees objected to Mohler’s piece and contended that their practice of Yoga had no religious dimension to it at all. For them, Yoga offered no contradiction at all to their Christian convictions. Mohler’s response to that argument was simple. If there’s no religious dimension to your Yoga, then it’s not Yoga. It’s just stretching. According to today’s New York Times, a group of…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Here’s the Psalm that we read in family worship last night. Happy Thanksgiving!
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When Husbands and Wives Disagree
The latest issue of JBMW was released yesterday, and I am going to highlight some of the articles in it over the next week or so. The first essay that I want to bring to your attention is by Heath Lambert, professor of biblical counseling at Boyce College. The article is titled “Breaking the Marital Impasse: How Authority and Submission Work When Spouses Disagree.” This article is one of the most practical articles I’ve ever read on how headship works when husband and wife disagree. He opens the piece by describing a real life counseling situation that he faced on this very issue. He writes,
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Alistair Begg in SBTS Chapel
Alistair Begg is doing the Mullins Lectures at Southern Seminary. Here is his first message from Tuesday morning. Watch above, listen below, or download here. [audio:http://www.sbts.edu/media/audio/fall2010/20101116begg.mp3]
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Great News from Matt Chandler
This is wonderful news from Matt Chandler about the results of his MRI yesterday. He reports: “The scan came back 100% clean… For the first time throughout this whole thing, the doctors were… visibly excited by the scan, as if they think we beat this thing.” Praise the Lord for that news!
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Did he really say that?
I’m reading President George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, and I’m finding it difficult to put it down. I’m puzzled by one anecdote near the beginning of the book that I thought deserved some comment. The story is about a Bush family gathering in Kennebunkport in the mid-80’s, and the Reverend Billy Graham was their special guest. At a discussion session after dinner one night, President George H. W. Bush asks Reverend Graham a question, and here’s how the younger President Bush recounts what happened:
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I Hated My Mother
Dr. Heath Lambert is a professor of biblical counseling at Boyce College, and last night he shared his testimony with our students. He and his twin brother suffered horrific abuse as children at the hands of their own mother. He begins his story with this statement: “Paullette Jamison was my mother… She died a couple of months ago… I hated her. I hated her.” [audio:http://www.sbts.edu/media/audio/BoycePodcast/20101108-boyce-podcast-lambert.mp3] Dr. Lambert goes on to explain how God transformed anger and violence into a gospel triumph. Last night was really special, and I want to share it with you. Please take some time to hear this one. It is wonderful. Listen above or download here.