Calling Conversation – John Mays
Perhaps it's a luxury to ponder calling as a subject. History is full of humans who understood their calling (not that they would have ever called it that) as their very day-to-day survival. These days, and in this part of…
Absence of Mind
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Marilynne Robinson www.thedailyshow.com Marilynne Robinson's new book, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, is a collection of lectures she delivered at Yale last year. You can…
Daily prayer scraps
Tim Keller shares some thoughts on daily prayer and Bible reading in a brief blog post, Scraps of Thoughts on Daily Prayer – interesting to get a little insight into his own disciplines; invaluable in sharing some helpful resources which…
Andy Crouch, Mick Jagger, & C.S. Lewis
I’ve had a hard time not taking personally Bill’s musings on Andy Crouch these past three weeks. Yes, the generation of which I am a member – Boomers – is the generation that elevated instant gratification to the chief place…
PCA Strategery
The PCA has produced a series of videos highlighting the Strategic Plan that will be presented at next week’s General Assembly in Nashville. I’ve included the first one here because Bryan Chapell provides a great overview of the current state…
From Purchases to Practices
“With their quick reliable hits of satisfaction, purchases are seductive. Building our life around them almost guarantees that we will never take the risk of embracing practices, which call us to long sustained difficulties and deferred gratification. But if we…
BP and Bach
Bill’s sermon last Sunday reminded me of Garrison Keillor’s editorial “BP and Bach” published June 2 in the New York Times. Keillor is the longtime host of NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” available on radio (yes, radio is still around!) every Saturday…