Douthat’s Shutdown Postmortem

Posted on October 17, 2013 by PaulVK

NYT

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Will Willimon interview on why he wrote a novel

Posted on October 17, 2013 by PaulVK

Christian Century.

Quote:

Being a pastor is therefore almost like being a novelist without all the alcohol.

 

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Laura Smit on the CRC and the PCUSA

Posted on October 17, 2013 by PaulVK

Her blog

The Reformed tradition is not simply a posture of engagement toward the world (which is what passes for the Kuyperian vision in many parts of the CRC).  It is a theological and confessional tradition that has real, objective doctrinal and ethical content on which we must insist.

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Complaining about Oprah’s Theistic Bias

Posted on October 16, 2013 by PaulVK

Psychology Today

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San Francisco Exodus

Posted on October 16, 2013 by PaulVK

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Why do I talk about the Age of Decay?

Posted on October 16, 2013 by PaulVK

New Testament Time Telling

The New Testament tells time in “ages”. There is “the present age” and “the age to come”.

Matthew 12:32 (NIV)

32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

What we call “the end of the world” the New Testament calls “the end of the age”.

Matthew 24:3 (NIV)

3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Jesus promises to be with us until the “end of the age”

Matthew 28:20 (NIV)

20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

The term “eternal life” in the gospel of John is literally translated “the life of the age”. Implicit is “the life of the age (to come)”.

Ephesians 1:20–21 (NET)

20 This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms21 far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

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Fitness Mom and Facebook Haters

Posted on October 16, 2013 by PaulVK

Yahoo

Fascinating how virtue and morality plays out online.

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War, not Agriculture Spawned Middle Class Societies

Posted on October 16, 2013 by PaulVK

Wired

Quote:

“Back in the 1920s in the United States, we had pretty naked capitalism. Workers were expected to get paid whatever they could get,” he says. “But then the Soviet Union came on the scene, and suggested that workers should get paid more.”

He says that during the original “Red Scare” in the 20′s, corporations — fearing a large scale shift to communism in the U.S. — voluntarily began paying higher wages and implementing more social programs, such as pensions. But a few decades later, economic competition forced Russia to allow more free trade and democracy.

But the biggest driver? War.

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Legalized Pot Will Raise New Issues for Pastors

Posted on October 15, 2013 by PaulVK

Out of Ur

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Exponential or Epic Fail

Posted on October 15, 2013 by PaulVK

CT: Among the Successful Failures

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