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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/september/what-galileos-telescope-cant-see.html?paging=off

Science needs honesty.

NY Times.  Quotes

More to the point, when pollsters looked at how often baby boomers said they went to church now and compared that with what they said when they were younger, they found a difference, said Frank Newport, Gallup’s editor in chief, who has a book coming outabout religion. “They were less religious, that group, 20 years ago than they are now,” he said.

What may explain why a boomer would become more religious? Part of it may be simply a function of maturation. “Marriage, having children, homeownership, and simply having roots in a community are all factors that nudge people toward religion,” David E. Campbell, the Notre Dame professor who wrote “American Grace” with Robert D. Putnam, said in an e-mail.

Then there is that other little matter: mortality, said Wade Clark Roof, a professor of religion and society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has written extensively about baby boomers.

“They have all been through it, or are in the middle of it,” he said. “Their parents are dying off. So the reality of mortality has hit them. When they were young, they thought they would live forever. But they know better now.”

Nice post from TC.

 For starters, we must combat the false assumption that God’s kingdom works in a top-down kind of way with the most influential people, such as celebrities, being most valuable. We make this mistake, in part, because we assume that the most visible people in our society are those who make the most difference in moving world history the direction it should go. Celebrities, politicians and sports stars – according to this mindset – are the ones doing big things and therefore making a big difference.

But perhaps part of why we focus on celebrities is because that focus lets us off the hook. We can tell ourselves that they are doing the things that really matter, so perhaps our own role (or even our own sin and unfaithfulness) is not that important. In his essay “The Gift of Good Land,” Wendell Berry argues that it is harder, not easier, to pursue faithfulness in ordinary life, noting that “it may, in some ways, be easier to be Samson than to be a good husband or wife day after day for 50 years.”

TC Article by Josh Larsen.

http://closetcalvinist.com/2012/the-five-strips-of-bacon/ new Calvinist acronym I heard at classis.

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