Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

[The Church] is like marriage, when you get into it, you find it is the beginning, not the end, of the struggle to make love work – O’Connor HT: @EricDirksen

Guess The Banner isn’t alone in having to figure out brand, voice and the boundaries of its message. CT A leading Christian book publisher has resigned its membership in the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) after a dispute over God and the … Continue reading →

http://kenthendricks.com/2014/05/16/the-life-of-a-typical-american/

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2014/05/pastoral-carnality

OnFaith

New Republic It was a contingency that, by Davis’s reckoning, marked “the final stage of the Age of Emancipation,” and served as a reminder of alternative possibilities for the United States and the Atlantic world. New World slavery, Davis argues, … Continue reading →

Really cool article on how we think about extinction. Ironically, much conservationist thinking involves an implicitly mythological conception of species diversity that agrees in its essentials with the creation account offered in Genesis. In the scriptural tradition, God looked upon … Continue reading →

A complaint of the absence of God

Rational Doubt PVK comments below. Again, the notion here is “inside/outside” and somehow by leaving you can see and think more clearly. The metaphor always suggests that it’s like leaving a building. What is lost is that it is more … Continue reading →