Review: Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power
Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Andy Crouch’s title Playing God has a double meaning. 1) Idols play God by lording it over and ultimately enslaving those underneath their sway. 2) But this doesn’t mean playing God is necessarily wrong—we were created to mimic our Creator not just in service but in what Genesis calls “dominion.” The difference between 1) playing God and 2) playing God is the difference between using your God-given power to enslave...
Another Level of Meaning for Those Asking What Rap Means
Russell Moore, speaking to Andy Crouch about his excellent book Playing God: Every time I say this I feel curmudgeonly… I grew up in a church where I just happened to have—I am able to worship in almost any setting—but there’s something about the sort of hymnody that I grew up with that’s very evocative to me. But it struck me when I was with my 87-year-old grandmother. She was very sick; she’d had a stroke. I thought she was about to die; she didn’t. But I was thinking, I can sing hymns to...
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Russell Moore on Evangelicals and American Politics
Probing, well worth reading, from someone whose role every American Christian should probably say at least one prayer for, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission: The most self-consciously “apolitical” churches are typically the most political of all. The Southern Presbyterian and Baptist churches of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries demanded a “spirituality of the church” that addressed only evangelism and discipleship, not “politics.” Of course,...
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Get a free Starbucks Coffee just for letting my cellphone provider, Ting, tell you if they can save you money. And if you do sign up, use this link to save us both $25. Ting has the best customer service of any company I have ever encountered—they get back to you right away, they do what they say they're going to do, and they act like real people (I think they are). AT&T, on the other hand, consistently puts me on hold and fails to follow through on what their (unfailingly courteous, I'll...