My favorite tech reviewer agrees with me about how to use his e-mail inbox: I’m not a believer in the “empty your Inbox every day” philosophy; in fact, my Inbox is my To Do list, which works great. When I’ve dealt with something, I delete or file it. When I haven’t,...
Mark Ward
Ken Myers Says Something Wise—Not a News Flash
An insightful comment from Ken Myers of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, answering a question from the helpful Presbyterians at By Faith: By Faith: Christians often defend certain cultural resources and practices based on the logic that if God is using them, they must be...
Harold Best on Evangelicalism
Harold Best, church musician, aesthetician, and no fundamentalist, in a discussion about American church music: One of these days we're going to be talking about evangelicals who were saved out of evangelicalism; and that day is probably on us right now. That quote...
A Bunch of Us Are Going Bandwagon Jumping Tonight—Wanna Come??
This text courtesy of Logos' promotional department: Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and...
Culture-Making: An Obligatory Disagreement
Andy Crouch’s Culture-Making has yielded some treasures of insight, helping me make something of my cultural and physical world ("making something of the world," in both of its possible senses, is his helpful definition of "culture"). But I have to disagree with his...
The Ethnic Section at Bi-Lo Constitutes the Same Percentage of the Store as the Ethnic Section at Publix—and Kroger, and Safeway, and Giant…
Andy Crouch’s Culture-Making reminds us that we are all culturally located, whether we realize it or not: In many American supermarkets you can still find an “ethnic food” aisle—as if only some kinds of food participate in a particular cultural tradition. Nonsense—all...
Please Comment
Serious comments only, please. I want to ask you to think and think hard about what Jonathan Edwards is saying in the following excerpt. If my experience (and, I recently found out, that of Tim Keller) is any guide, you're going to have a hard time understanding him...
An iPod that Touched My Heart
I upgraded to the new iPod Touch 3.0 software. $10 well spent. Here's why: Copy and Paste. I've been needing it for all sorts of things, from sermon notes to quick e-mails to friends sharing a little web content. It works intuitively well, like all Apple GUI features....
Terrorism and Evangelism
Here's another little helpful and challenging quote I read in Total Church. At present the military and economic might of Western nations is struggling to counter the threat of international terrorism. It is proving difficult to defeat an enemy made up of local cells...
“You Are Now Entering the Mission Field”
I found this little excerpt from Total Church to be a challenging source of wisdom. May God help me to apply these insights. I'm not sure I have good answers to all these questions. We sometimes ask people to imagine they are part of a church-planting team in a...