I just finished reading Scott Bessenecker’s new book How to Inherit the Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior (InterVarsity Press, 2009). Overall it was a good book, easy to read and understand. According to Bessenecker, most leaders in today’s church have bought into the MONOPOLY™ mindset of leadership. Simply put that means most l...
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If you’ve just read this recent article called “Dispatches from Abroad” by Brett McCracken, you might be interested in this article called “Travelers’ Blessings” by Rick Steves. I’ve long been familiar with Rick Steves as one of the best travel guides for Europe, but I had no idea he was a Christian! He has some amazing insights on ho...
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"The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates. In fact, it might be the most famous thing he ever said. If you wanted a Socrates T-shirt, button, or bumper sticker, this is the phrase that would go on it.
Socrates wasn't good at sound bites. His preferred philosophical style was the interrogation, and he could most often be overheard...
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Nothing, not a plague of Biblical proportions or a President Jon Edwards, would harm the Republic more than allowing a handsome football quarterback and his mother to give a Super Bowl commercial celebrating life.
The Super Bowl and the commercials that come with it have always been an event that celebrated taste and family values. This year whi...
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Here at the beginning of a new academic semester, all the students and professors are full of big plans. We’re going to cover so much material, learn so many new skills, and develop so many relationships. We’ve got a long semester ahead of us, and since it’s a Spring semester, there’s a big graduation at the end of it that the seniors are r...
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Three authors who knew a lot more when they were older, but were glad they had written their books when they were younger:
John Wesley: “Nay, I know not that I can write a better on The Circumcision of the Heart than I did five and forty years ago.”
C. H. Dodd in 1958: “I have not attempted any such radical revision [of 1920’s The M...
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Featured Essay
[by Brett McCracken, from Biola magazine, Winter '10, pp. 18-24]
What do we see when we travel? Is it just postcard scenery and famous landmarks? Confusing subway maps and exotic menus? Or can there be more to it than that?
G.K. Chesterton once said that the difference between a traveler and a tourist is that the traveler sees what he sees, w...
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