Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed
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, its presence in that list reminds me that it needs doing. (I have a lot of e-mail folders. I also have a lot of “message rules” that file incoming mail automatically into appropriate folders.) The rest of his little post is worth...
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 good. Ken Myers: Well, I don’t think everything that happens is evidence of common grace. I have a high view of the common curse, too. The fact that God can use something doesn’t make it intrinsically valuable. God uses us all the...
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 hit me hard. It's true. It's weep-worthy.
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...