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Wednesday July 11, 2007 Books: The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association has announced their award winners for 2007. John Piper’s “What Jesus Demands from the World” won in the Christian Life category. Strangely, a novel took the big prize (and, even more strangely, didn’t even win in its own category). Catholicism: The pope has apparently angered…
Tuesday July 10, 2007 Television: Just when you thought television couldn’t get any worse. Interview: Martin Downes’ latest interview is with Tom Ascol. Birthdays: James White wished Jean Cauvin a happy 498th. Technology: This looks like a great little utility to help you find the five or ten remaining domain names that actually make some…
Monday July 9, 2007 Humor: Alex Chediak made my day with this. ChurchMerch: ChurchMerch goes to a new, even more revolting extreme. Music: I found this video really interesting. The speaker, Evelyn Glennie, is a very talented deaf percussionist and she explains how to listen to music with your whole body. Books: CT recently had…
Friday July 6, 2007 Supplies: You know you need want some of these–MegaSticky oversize sticky notes. Islam: A titch off-color, perhaps, but having lived in Scotland I got a real chuckle out of headlines like this one. You just don’t mess with the Scots. “A HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects…
Thursday July 5, 2007 Islam: An interesting article at Yahoo in which they discuss “a socio-economic trend in which wealthy [Islamic] families highly educate their sons, who sometimes become radical and have the education they need to become leaders.” Environment: The “Chicago Sun Times says “Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny.” Du Jour:…
Wednesday July 4, 2007 Music: Fans of Caedmon’s Call, The Normals or Andrew Osenga will want to download this free EP that was released a few days ago. Books: An interesting little article at Publishers Weekly says that female pastors are becoming fashionable in Christian fiction. Theology: Charles Schultz (creator of Peanuts) comments on the…
Tuesday July 3, 2007 Jobs: If you are a programming geek, Desiring God may just have a job for you. Interview: Trevin Wax has a fresh interview with Caedmon’s Call. Du Jour: Russell Moore has posted a good commentary dealing with creationism, the gap theory, and reconciling Scripture and the scientific data. Music: Bob Kauflin…
Monday July 2, 2007 Books: The DG blog shares the almost unbelievable results of their recent sale. Children: An article in the Telegraph shows, to no one’s great surprise, that babies are not quite as innocent as they may appear. Conference: Brett and Alex Harris have released a video promoting the Rebelution Tour, now underway.
Friday June 29, 2007 Interview: Martin Downes has an interview with Mark Dever. Humor: Josh Harris shares an important truth. Books: Trevin shares some good advice on reading and on reading widely. Politics: Following closely behind the environmental movement, expect to read more stories like this one, suggesting that the best and quickest solution to…
Thursday June 28, 2007 Video: American Vision has an amusing video dealing with Sam Harris and other atheists. Marriage: An article at Slate discusses the trouble with engagement rings. Sure it’s a kind of silly tradition, but I don’t think it’s a bad one! Theology: Mark Dever has begun a series asking where all these…
Wednesday June 27, 2007 Books: As promised, all the books at the Desiring God store are a mere $5 today. Even John Piper thinks this is crazy. So go and lose yourself in a frenzy of consumerism. You won’t be sorry! Photo: Though the text accompanying it is a little over the top, this photo…
Thursday June 21, 2007 Bible: BibleMapper is a really interesting program “that helps you quickly and easily create customized maps of the Holy Lands or study a particular period and aspect of Bible history.” It is available for free. Contest: I have announced the winners of the Discerning Reader contest over at DR. Blogs: 9Marks…
Thursday June 14, 2007 Books: At Desiring God you can find an excerpt from the conclusion of John Piper’s upcoming book on justification. Music: Bob Kauflin has a long post about “New Songs, New CD’s, and a New Website.” Music: Also in the world of music, you may be interested in Sing The Word, a…
Thursday June 7, 2007 Interview: Adrian talks to the guys who wrote “Pierced for our Transgressions.” Church: “Christianity Today” has an interesting slideshow that “shows hymnals from around the world, from a medieval codex to a not-yet-written Ghanian composition.” Conference: The New Attitude blog has the content of a “spoken word meditation” done by Curtis…
Friday June 1, 2007 Church: Paul points to a foundation that looks to be doing amazing work. Blogs: SaidatSouthern is a site featuring bloggers (students, faculty and alumni) connected to Southern Seminary. Bible: BibleMemory.us, a great little Bible memorization aid, is now free. Media: An interesting look at how magazine covers stretch the truth. Du…
Thursday May 31, 2007 Music: Mark Roberts has some interesting questions and reflections on the sheer convenience of downloading music from iTunes. Music: While on the subject of music, the good folks at Sovereign Grace are offering a free song from an interesting new project called “Asleep in a Storm” which presents remixes of some…
Thursday May 24, 2007 Conference: Various people, including this guy and this guy are bringing blog updates from the Gospel Coalition conference. Justice: Sweet justice. “A Lakewood, Ohio, landlord has been ordered by a judge to house arrest in one of his derelict buildings until he makes the proper repairs.” Theology: Julian is laying out…
Thursday May 17, 2007 Personal: I’m looking for some assistance from someone with good knowledge of PHP and from someone who has worked with Apache (and .htaccess in particular). If this is you, please hit the contact button up top and send me an email! Humor: Summer reading. Books: “TIME” has an excerpt from Al…
Wednesday May 16, 2007 Interview: At “Against Heresies” Martin has begun an interview with R. Scott Clark, Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary, California. Film: The kid in me was thrilled to read this: “Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have teamed to produce a trilogy of Tintin feature films, with each…
Thursday May 10, 2007 Video: In case you have a morbid sense of curiosity, this is what one of the infamous clown communions looks like. Du Jour: Don Elbourne weighs in on Virginia Tech and Hurricane Katrina. Activism: Activists in Austria want to have a chimp legally declared a person. We continue to await the…