December 2011
7 posts
Merry →
Simply beautiful.
Xmas, Crissmas, and Grace Bombs →
It is a longstanding Christmas tradition of mine to share C. S. Lewis’s playfully satirical essay called “Xmas and Christmas”. (Hint: it’s not about word choice.) I can’t think of a more appropriate tradition to be sharing with you this year than a reminder of the “reason for the season”. Go ahead and read it. I will be here when you get back.
I had the...
Christmas Grace Bomb
There is an outlaw preacher who is struggling this Christmas. She has three kids: a nineteen month old girl, a three year old boy, and a thirteen year old girl. She lost her job, and her husband’s hours were recently cut. I just found out that she applied for help through a local church for an “Adopt-A-Family” type program that gave gift cards to struggling families for...
An Evangelical Remembers His Friend Hitchens →
Larry Taunton, endearingly, on Christopher Hitchens:
The debate over, I crossed the stage to shake Christopher’s hand. “You were quite good tonight,” he said with a charming smile as he accepted my proffered hand. “I think they enjoyed us.”
Sadly, all future such debates must go off without a Hitch.
We were never meant to die.
Indonesia's Aceh punks shaved for 're-education' →
Karishma Vaswani, for BBC Asia:
Dozens of young men and women have been detained for being “punk” and disturbing the peace in Aceh, Indonesia’s most devoutly Muslim province. They are being held in a remedial school, where they are undergoing “re-education”.
Unreal.
Leaving on a Jet Plane to Meet People from Twitter →
Deanna Ogle on Outlaw Preachers (re)Union 2011:
The first hour or two was awkward for me, but instead of getting uncomfortable hello’s from people I got warm hugs and bright greetings from everybody.
Ain’t no huggin’ like outlaw huggin’.
On the Efficacy of Prayer
God seems to do nothing of himself which he can possibly delegate to His creatures. He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what he could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye. He allows us to neglect what he would have us do, or to fail. Perhaps we do not fully realize the problem, so to call it, of enabling finite free wills to co-exist with Omnipotence. It seems to involve at every...