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A La Carte (10/11)

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Wednesday October 11, 2006

Web: Dr. Don Kistler (the founder of Soli Deo Gloria Publications) has a new web site. “Here we hope you will find teaching that will influence and guide your decisions, choices, and behavior. Since theology is about God, it is immininently practical by its very nature. The more we know God, the more we will seek to imitate Him and the more we will please Him.”

Du Jour: Mark Driscoll has written an interesting article about the spirituality of porn star Jenna Jameson. “The most peculiar quote she gave in the entire biography was her attempt to defend how she could be a Catholic Christian porn star: ‘No one can judge me but God.’”

Weird: Here’s the breakfast wave of the future: “the Holy Toast miracle bread stamper.”


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