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Ten Awful Truths About Book PublishingThis article outlines ten facts about book publishing that may be surprising. For example, over 560,000 books are published every year in the US alone. And of the books tracked, the majority sell fewer than 99 copies. The End of Book Publishing As We Know ItSpeaking of books, Michael Hyatt…
The Year’s Best MusicCT offers a rather bizarre roundup of the year’s best music (99% of which none of us have ever heard of). Like this: “John Darnielle calls himself a ‘Catholic atheist,’ but he knows his Bible, and writes twelve songs based on specific verses here. This album, sparsely acoustic and beautiful, is neither…
R.C. Sproul on The Manhattan DeclarationDr. Sproul has offered his take on The Manhattan Declaration, and it’s a slam dunk. “In answer to the question, “R.C., why didn’t you sign the Manhattan Declaration?” I offer the following answer: The Manhattan Declaration confuses common grace and special grace by combining them. While I would march with…
Facebook at the AltarI got a laugh out of this. Let’s assume it is meant to make a point… Tribute to a Martyr“A British man whose great-great grandfather was killed and eaten by cannibals has taken part in a unique reconciliation event on a south pacific island. In the 1830s, the Reverend John Williams was…
Counsel to a Young Church Planter on MarriageD.A. Carson offers some wise and seasoned counsel on a rather difficult situation. “The following post was first an email to a young church planter seeking counsel. He is planting a church in a rough area. Not a few of those who are getting converted have been living…
Hunting Tiger WoodsCJ Mahaney offers some wise words concerning the Tiger Woods situation. “Let us make sure we do not join the hunt. A Christian’s response to this story should be distinctly different. We should not be entertained by the news. We should not have a morbid interest in all the details. We should be…
Manhattan and the Brooklyn BridgeAn interesting article here: “Shortly before the Manhattan Declaration came out I was very disappointed by a discovery I made at the back end of the second edition of J. I. Packer’s Rediscovering Holiness. This new edition contains an afterword entitled “Holiness in the Dark: The Case of Mother Teresa.” I…
The Country ParsonTim Keller: “Young pastors or seminarians often ask me for advice on what kind of early ministry experience to seek in order to best grow in skill and wisdom as a pastor. They often are surprised when I tell them to consider being a ‘country parson’ — namely, the solo pastor of a…
An Interview with Michael HortonOver at the Ligonier blog Burk Parsons is interviewing Michael Horton (who declares that he does not read any blogs–maybe that is the secret to his productivity). Part two of the interview reveals that Horton was only a teenager when he wrote the first version of Putting Amazing Back Into Grace,…
Cyber MondayToday is “Cyber Monday,” the day that online retailers come up with deals to try to rival what brick-and-mortar retailers offer on Black Friday. Here are a few deals I noted this morning: The big news at Amazon today is a great deal on the 8 GB iPod Touch. Today only it’s on sale…
A special edition of A La Carte today, one geared toward trying to find the best Black Friday deals. Here are a few that I’ve scrounged up already at some of the places I shop at (I love me a good deal…): Amazon Gold Box: Nuvi Garmin GPSAmazon’s Gold Box deal today is the Garmin…
The Final Nail?It is probably a bit too early for this, but we can hope. “If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into…
The World’s ChildrenThis photoblog shows pictures of just a few of the world’s impoverished children. “Twenty years after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, multitudes of children across the globe are still suffering from poverty, abuse and disease.” Thanksgiving GiveawayMonergism Books is sponsoring a Thanksgiving giveaway of some great…
Be the Church?A long time ago I was part of a church that began to say “Don’t go to church; be the church.” Jeff Purswell has written an article showing why this is not good theology. “Now, despite the element of truth (God’s people are the church), there are all kinds of things wrong with…
Christians and VampiresOh boy. “Vamping Up: Christians Bite into Vampire Market” is a headline in Publishers Weekly’s Christians Bookline. Looks like Christians need their vampire fix, too. Illustration ChallengeLukas VanDyke, photographer extraordinaire, decided to take on a strange but cool little project. He read through the five most recent posts on my blog and then…
Turning the Bible into Toilet PaperDenny Burk shares a sad but interesting little fact about Ian McKellen. “In an interview with Details magazine, gay actor Ian McKellen says that he tears pages out of Bibles that he finds in hotel rooms. Some of the Bible pages are hung up in his bathroom as toilet paper.”…
The Prosperity GospelCanada’s The National Post featured an article this weekend on the prosperity gospel. Themelios 34.3The Gospel Coalition just announced the release of the latest edition of Themelios. It’s mostly for smart people but there are some things there for the rest of us as well. Rick Mercer’s Sleepover with Stephen HarperThis is something…
Women FightingOwen Strachan looks at women who fight and says “Femininity is a contested sphere nowadays, both literally and figuratively.” Porn in PublicAn article in the Washington Post deals with the phenomenon of public porn (or drive-by porn)–inadvertently seeing porn on another person’s portable device. Christian PublishingAllan Fisher, writing for Tabletalk Magazine, asks “Looking for…
Christmas Music RoundupCT has their annual roundup of this year’s Christmas music. At the top of their list is Downhere’s How Many Kings?. Walk HumblyMark Altrogge’s ninth Scripture memorization CD is now available. “Walk Humbly consists of 20 scriptures (including references) set word-for-word to contemporary music, and I don’t mean muzak…” You can download one…
Last WordsOn the Texas Department of Justice website, you can read the last words of over 400 executed human beings. Morbid, perhaps, but an interesting look into what a person thinks as he looks death in the face. The Guy Who Has Caught 3000 BallsHere’s an amusing video of a guy who has caught 3,000…