Time for a few links and notes.

http://gratefultothedead.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/how-important-was-the-closing-of-the-nt-canon-to-the-early-church/ on the closing of the canon. A very hot topic I get into today. Also in the comments a reference to a book http://www.amazon.com/Scripture-Authority-Evangelical-Ressourcement-ebook/dp/B001GCUBVY

And via Tim Stafford’s blog, David Brooks on the will and on habits. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/opinion/brooks-the-machiavellian-temptation.html?_r=1&h

Tim Stafford in the discussion about living alone. As affluence, power, choice, and opportunity afford themselves we find people opting toward independence in a desire to maximize what it is they value. Then again there are traditional inst…itutions: marriage, family, religion, civics, the bring obligation and tie you down. Again we come to the question “what is good”? http://timstafford.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/more-on-living-alone

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/living-alone-means-being-social.html