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Tuesday April 25, 2006 Poetry: The Bible Bard, having read an article I linked to in one of last week’s A La Carte editions, thought about carbon monoxide and came up with the following limerick. Publishing: Thomas Nelson has a new imprint called NakedInk. Their first book will be called “The Hot Mom’s Handbook: Blondes…
Monday April 24, 2006 Film: Early reviews of the upcoming film United 93 are beginning to trickle in. Mary Katherine Ham posted one such review at Hugh Hewitt’s site. “I’m not gonna lie. It wasn’t easy to watch. But I’m glad I watched it.” Military: Canada suffered its worst military tragedy since the Korean War,…
Friday April 21, 2006 Culture: Ann Coulter takes a devastating swing at our culture. “However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don’t hire strange women to…
Thursday April 20, 2006 Theology: Brandon Porter struggles with the practical application of a few verses from 1 Corinthians 12. “This is a very real issue that we need to get right. Paul has people in mind here, not just parts of a body that make up a nice analogy.” Humor: Yahoo has a neat…
Wednesday April 19, 2006 Theology: David Field manages to encapsulate the 5 points of Calvinism in the form of a limerick. For other Bible-based limericks, check out the Bible Bus. Conference: Timmy, who has organized the Band of Bloggers meeting prior to the Together for the Gospel conference, has added a post to his site…
Tuesday April 17, 2006 Politics: Arizona candidate for governor, Len Munsil (who blogs at lenmunsil.com) points to an article detailing Dick Cheney’s tax situation and says, “If Cheney walked on water, the headline would be ‘Cheney can’t swim.’” Cheney donated almost 80% of his income in 2005. Bible: ESV Blog points to an article from…
Monday April 16, 2006 Site: Over the weekend I moved my site to a new server. I hope and trust that this server will prove more stable than the last and that we’ll all enjoy more problem-free reading and writing! Nature: This could also have been filed under “humor.” Take a look at the rabbit…
Friday April 14, 2006 Easter: Rumor has it that Americans do not enjoy Good Friday as a holiday. That is tragic. Almost all Canadians have the day off work, myself included. I suppose that taking the day off in the US of A would conflict with the separation of church and state. Deal: Jacob Hantla…
Thursday April 13, 2006 Web: William Dicks points out that Google is hosting a blog that promotes ‘boy love’–sexual relationships between men and adolescents. He recommends urging Google to drop the site. Music: The Thirsty Theologian has written a song. A really bad song. But he points to a post by Libbie that contains a…
Wednesday April 12, 2006 Music: Here is a song that, if you listen to it, will be playing in your head all day (whether you want it to or not…and you probably don’t). Family: Dr. Mohler discusses a rather shocking new book. “When that discernment evaporates, desire is all that remains. When such a desire…
Tuesday April 10, 2006 Just for kicks I thought we would do an all-Emergent A La Carte for today. Emergent: Yesterday I attended a meeting in which my friend Paul presented a paper on the Emerging church. I thought he did a very good job of representing and critiquing this movement. He will be incrementally…
Monday April 9, 2006 Film: Justin Taylor passes along an email telling Christians how to respond to the Da Vinci Code movie. Theology: John Hendryx of Monergism fame writes about “The Historicity of the Resurrection.” Humor: “Bin Can Can” is a short film showing what happens to our trash cans when there is no one…
Thursday April 6, 2006 Education: Justin Taylor quotes Mortimer Adler on “The Pain of Learning.” “One of the reasons why the education given by our schools is so frothy and vapid is that the American people generally–the parent even more than the teacher–wish childhood to be unspoiled by pain.” Creation: National Geographic has an interesting…
Friday April 7, 2006 Help: If there is a PHP braniac out there who could spare the time to answer a couple of my questions, I should would appreciate a little bit of help with a project I’m working on. Contact me if you are willing and able to help! Culture: Joe over at Evangelical…
Wednesday April 5, 2006 Da Vinci: Alistair Begg agrees that Christians should be prepared to defend against Da Vinci. “Please do not misunderstand me when I tell you how disappointed I am with our featured book this month, The Da Vinci Deception. My problem is not with the book (it’s helpful), nor with the author…
Tuesday April 4, 2006 Pornography: Slice of Laodicea reports on Christian Pornography. “A publisher is soliciting descriptions of ‘godly’ passion in the married bed with a special appeal to pastors wives to share their ‘stories’.” Humor: WestJet, Canada’s favorite (and only profitable) airline, has asked customers to contribute to realizing gains in fuel efficiency. “Beginning…
Monday April 3, 2006 Du Jour: Dluxe’s world discusses, among other things, Purpose Driven Pets. “If we are imagining that our longing in heaven will be for Snoogums the Chihuahua, I think we have a problem.” Family: Sovereign Grace’s Family News Extra Online reports on Capt. Hans Kirkman who is serving his family while serving…
Friday March 31, 2006 Technology: Dennis Forbes has some interesting analysis of domain names. The long and short of this is that all the good names are long gone! Technology Bonus: Fosfor Gadgets lists the top 10 weirdest keyboards of all-time. I want one of the laser keyboards! Quote: Here is some April Fool’s wisdom…
Thursday March 30, 2006 Humor: The Museum of Hoaxes counts down the top 100 April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. A personal favorite is Burger King’s left-handed whopper. Warren: Saddleback Church recently celebrated it’s 20,000 baptism. This is quite an accomplishment, but as many have pointed out, the requirements for baptism are so minimal…
Wednesday March 29, 2006 Video: Some enterprising soul put a video camera near a bald eagle’s nest on Hornby Island, near Vancouver, British Columbia. You can watch it here. The video is very good quality, though there isn’t a whole lot going on! Book: It seems that Girl Talk, written by Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole…