withoutwax.tv — Can men and women just be friends? Seems like the age old debate, but as I get older I’ve come around a little on this one. I used to think it was pretty much impossible but now (with obvious guidelines) I think it can happen. In fact I think it’s...
albertmohler — By any measure, Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and influential figures in modern science. For thirty years he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and his career before and after his decades in that post are the stuff of scientific legend. He...
aholyexperience — Love that acts, that doesn't shrink back, that sacrifices and stretches itself right out, fingertips reaching, this is the link that form the chain that pulls the poor from the bondage of poverty. Six farm kids are links in the love chain this morning."I don't want you to go,...
mereorthodoxy — When Jon Acuff writes about sex, people pay attention. Actually, that’s not quite right. When anyone writes about sex, people pay attention. It’s impossible not to. Even though we’ve probably heard everything there is to say about the matter, we simply can’t stop. [Insert your own joke here.] Last week, he took on...
hardwords.wordpress — Title: Permission to Speak Freely Author: Anne Jackson Publisher: Thomas Nelson (2010) “What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church?” When Anne Jackson published that question on her blog in May, 2008, she wasn’t prepared for the response. 497 comments (and counting) later, she knew she’d hit on something...
tallskinnykiwi.typepad — There's a video on Facebook making the rounds called Hipster Church Movement: The Lisbon - New Delhi Connection.Its uncool and unhip in a hilarious way. Especially the dancing cat and the WWJD t-shirt. The video is made my two good friends of mine and I know their stories quite well...
scriptoriumdaily — Hebrews is a book of the Bible for people in hard times. Should you read it now, or later? In terms of the book’s actual background, we don’t know much for certain about the situation of those who first heard these words. There are dark suggestions of hardship in a few...
internetmonk — By Chaplain Mike Although the church of Jesus Christ is found in many different places, she is one true church, not many. After all, there are many rays of sunlight, but only one sun. A tree has many boughs, each slightly different from others,...
flowerdust — First, thank you all so much for the outpouring of support and kind words for Permission to Speak Freely during its release week last week! THANK YOU!!! Now, on to the show: Did you know the first month after a book releases is life or death? Not in an over-dramatic “IT IS THE...
biblegateway — “We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.”
mereorthodoxy — So, one guy writes a post about how young people who were raised within the church are leaving behind Christianity and offers a few reasons why. Good post. Dude’s got a book coming out on the topic, and it looks to be pretty good. But then, there’s this other blogger who...
getreligion — We live in the age in which print and video forms of journalism are merging into something new and, at this point, uncertain. Now, if you are paying close attention you know that the problem isn’t that journalists are flopping when it comes to moving into the “multi-platform future.” There has...
brianmclaren — I'll be part of the Big Tent Christianity gathering this week in Raleigh, NC ... A friend sent this note relating the big tent approach to CS Lewis: I was thinking this morning about CS Lewis. On the one hand Marcus Borg has identified the progression of 'conservative' to 'liberal' ideas...
stevekmccoy — $5 Albums - September: My Favorites including Sufjan, Coldplay, Sinatra and more | All 100 Daytrotter FREE: The Holy Ghost Tent Revival Streaming Free: Justin Townes Earle | Junip | The Walkmen The Woodlands self-titled album is my new discovery. Their name, their music and this video make me think of autumn. Beautiful. The...
internetmonk — By Chaplain Mike For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance...
newleaven — Most of us are already committed to reading the apostle Paul’s letters one way. Now this is not altogether wrong in and of itself. But if this commitment is based on our own rereading, rethinking, reworking of Paul, then major kudos are in order. If not, well, case in point, Romans 4:1: What...
desiringgod — (Author: Tyler Kenney) Jonathan Edwards says that a lack of external expression in worship can actually destroy Christian community and devotion. Some bodily worship is necessary to give liberty to our own devotion; yea though in secret, so more when with others . . . 'Tis necessary that there should...
getreligion — Frequently when we’re talking about violence against religious minorities, it’s a foreign issue. But it happens stateside as well, sadly. Recently there have been a few attacks that have received media attention. When Michael Enright stabbed his New York City cab driver Ahmed H. Sharif, for being a Muslim, it...
stevekmccoy — It's days like today that make me think I need to slow down and chill out more often. It's good for you, you know?
ericbryant — I just received my copy of Your Secret Name by Kary Oberbrunner! I have been intrigued by this book from the first time I heard about it. Here is a description of our 3 names as well as the contents of the book: “Birth Name–the name assigned to you when you arrived in this...
hardwords.wordpress — Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is...
highcallingblogs — Keep it simple, they say. They are Chip and Dan Heath–the brothers and co-authors of our new book club selection, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. And by stick these boys know what they are talking about: By “stick” we mean that your ideas are understood and remembered,...
internetmonk — By Chaplain Mike Hey, I have an idea. Let’s make this a Labor Day tradition. Since the Bible is our instruction book for family relationships, and since it spells out detailed instructions for every situation in life about how husbands ought to fulfill their roles as manly leaders, how wives ought to...
biblegateway — “Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
paulwilkinson.wordpress — Here’s a re-post from two years ago. Back in the day, WAY-FM morning radio personality Brant Hansen blogged at Letters from Kamp Krusty which was on everyone’s daily reading list. He tried to start it up again around Christmas last year, but simply has too many media projects...