The Scriptorium Daily

Month: September 2008

  • Let Us Now Praise Study Bibles

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    Fred Sanders
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    The ESV Study Bible is soon to be released, and from the plentiful pre-release materials that I’ve seen online, this promises to be a great resource. The editors seem to have crammed a lot of helpful things into a single volume, including background info, maps where you need them, and essays that I wouldn’t normally…

  • Lost Dogs at the End of the Road

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    Fred Sanders
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    My favorite band, The Lost Dogs, just finished up a Route 66 road trip with a beach party concert in Santa Monica. It may not quite count as The American Dream, but winding from Chicago to L.A. on what is now the nostalgic back road of the nation is pretty cool. The Lost Dogs did…

  • Worship as Gift

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    Greg Peters
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    I was recently directed towards Andrew Jones’ blog entitled “A Gift Economy,” where the author was reflecting on Christian worship and the concept of gift. Jones’ main contention is that much Christian worship is passive, in that most worshippers are expected to receive during the worship time as opposed to giving something of themselves. I…

  • On the Art of Online Conversation: John Mark Reynolds

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    Online discourse has become harsh and unhealthy. This is especially true of political discourse. John Mark Reynolds, public speaker and director of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, will address the problems of internet discourse and what bloggers can do to raise the level of conversation on the internet. Click here to play podcast.

  • The New Media Frontier: Roger Overton

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    The New Media Frontier is a visionary new book that offers direction for how Christians can use the new media with discernment and grace. Several of the contributors to The New Media Frontier met and began dialogue about this book at the first GodblogConference, so we are very excited to have them present the completed…

  • Supporting Your Christian Blog (While Staying Saved): Wade Tonkin

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    Listen to Wade Tonkin of ChristianAffiliateMarketers.com give an overview of blog monetization strategies with an emphasis on how to generate financial support for yourself or you ministry from your blog while “staying saved.” He examines affiliate marketing, site sponsorships, Google Adsense and “Tipping” services to give you a solid base of knowledge and put you…

  • Godbloggers and Hollywood: Mark Joseph

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    The role of the Godbloggers in the entertainment industry and why they should care: The internet has offered unparalleled opportunities for people of faith to break out of the religious ghetto and allow their ideas to be accessed by people who may not agree with them. What is the role of the Godbloggers in the…

  • Renewed Minds Online: Ken Myers

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    Media do not merely carry content; they also create mentalities, sensibilities, and intuitions. As the medium of the internet has developed, few of its practitioners have considered how this new form of communication affects the larger ecosystem of culture and human interaction. We tend to assume that all new technologies (since they make certain aspects…

  • The Missional Church in the Internet Age: Andrew Jones

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    Dustin Steeve, Senior Director of GodblogCon 2008, opens the conference with an introduction of the conference, and GodblogCon’s opening speaker: Andrew Jones (tallskinnykiwi.com), social entrepreneur and mission consultant, discussed the phenomenal rise of faith blogging over the past decade and what it will take to see the church fully utilize this window of opportunity. Click…

  • Forgives Your Iniquities, Heals Your Diseases (Psalm 103)

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    Fred Sanders
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    The 103rd Psalm comes pretty close to perfect praise. It seems to be built around the quotation of God’s own self-description from Exodus 34, The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but…

  • Housekeeping

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    Melissa Schubert
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    Like her biblical namesake, the Ruth of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (1980) is a sojourner among strangers. The almost misleading title of the novel suggests that the novel will be concerned with the daily habits that constitute and stabilize domestic life. Instead, the novel’s protagonists inhabit their house without feeling at home. Similarly, they live in…

  • Such Pride is Praise: Spenser’s Amoretti #5

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    Fred Sanders
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    RVDELY thou wrongest my deare harts desire, In finding fault with her too portly pride: the thing which I doo most in her admire, is of the world vnworthy most enuide. For in those lofty lookes is close implide, scorn of base things, & sdeigne of foule dishonor: thretning rash eies which gaze on her…