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 you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check out Logos and see how it can revolutionize your Bible study. As I said on the Logos blog, Logos may never win my heart away from BibleWorks,...
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 take on the historicity of the Genesis accounts. American evangelicalism's hunger for cultural acceptance—a hunger Crouch rightly criticizes elsewhere in this book—has left it terribly vulnerable to the power of prevailing cultural...
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 food is “ethnic.” (p. 41) Crouch’s book has offered many similar insights in its first 100 pages, though I'll withhold further analysis until I can read the whole thing.
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 because he's using a psychological paradigm you've never considered. You may have never even thought that you had a psychological paradigm. But I have been thinking increasingly that Edwards is shaped by the Bible in this area—and...
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. Spotlight. A needed improvement, and so easy to access. Search Mail. A much-needed improvement. I love my iPod Touch as an e-mail device. Notes Syncing. A little annoying that I have to use Apple Mail in OS X (a great program,...