Blog post written by an African American PCA pastor on whether conservative Christian African Americans should not vote for Obama because of his SSM statement.

Kevin DeYoung weighs in again on “What the Bible Really Still Says About Homosexuality”

Daniel Helminiak CNN Belief Blog “My Take: What the Bible really says about homosexuality” 

Good comment conversation on the Patrol piece on the Culture wars with contributions from James KA Smith and my friend Bill Harris.

Can eating organic food turn you into a jerk? Eating the way you should tempts us to indulge and reinforce self-righteous thinking about ourselves.

Another great post by Ann Voskamp on the truth about our dirt.

On Mitt Romney, Liberty U and civil religion. 

Who speaks for millennial evangelicals?  They have as many different voices as the rest of the generations. Go figure.

John Piper’s letter to a 12 year old about the eternal destiny of those who haven’t heard the gospel. 

The Danger and Potential of Memorizing Scripture from Augustine.

Also from Augustine, the famous nursing paragraph.

7, 11. O God, hear me. Alas for the sins of humankind! A human it is who here bewails them, and you treat him mercifully because you made him, though the sin that is in him is not of your making. Who is there to remind me of the sin of my infancy (for sin there was: no one is free from sin in your sight, not even an infant whose span of earthly life is but a single day);43 who can remind me of it? Some little mite who is a tiny child now, in whom I might observe conduct I do not remember in myself? What then was my sin at that age? Was it perhaps that I cried so greedily for those breasts? Certainly if I behaved like that now, greedy not for breasts, of course, but for food suitable to my age, I should provoke derision and be very properly rebuked. My behavior then was equally deserving of rebuke, but since I would not have been able to understand anyone who scolded me, neither custom nor common sense allowed any rebuke to be given.

St. Augustine (2007-04-01). The Confessions, Revised (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Vol. 1) (Kindle Locations 798-806). New City Press. Kindle Edition.

When our sexual stories go off the Christian Map from the CT Blog

From Twice a Sunday to twice a month as the new normal for church attendance by Phil Reinders.

Finally, sharks with laser beams! 🙂

Philip Yancey talks about escaping a toxic church. GK Chesterson “The worst moment for an atheist is when they experience a profound sense of gratitude and they have no one to thank.”

“A person who pursues revenge should dig two graves.” old Chinese proverb. from @bakadesuyo.