Sometimes people say I don't share enough personal stuff on my blog. Fine. Here we go. As I compile this link list, my wife is frying fish in the kitchen. There. Is that the kind of thing you mean?
- Ever wonder how the Catholic Church ended up with an amended Ten Commandments? Maybe there were Fourteen Commandments to begin with.
- Think it's bad where Malala Yousafzai is from? One writer thinks it's just as bad in the United States where the daughters of homeschooling parents are being held captive and denied higher education.
- Is it possible that we've missed a major nuance of a most-familiar story because of the placement of the chapter division?
- Because it would be nice to know ahead of time, here's six signs you're dealing with a toxic person.
- Programs, growth strategies, and ministry tools can all be helpful, but in this piece, a well-respected church blogger apologizes for seven years of misplaced emphasis.
- The Hour of Power telecast is now airing fresh programs from their new home at Shepherd's Grove, with pastor Bobby Schuller.
- Facebook isn't just posting your cat pictures, they're also running the stats on info you provide, including your odds of getting engaged at a Christian college …
- … But from a pastor's viewpoint, what does a wedding ceremony look like when God isn't invited?
- CNN doesn't so much interview Sarcastic Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Webber as it does ask for a guided tour of her various tattoos.
- Stop the Presses! It's a Justin Bieber photo album with pics of J.B. with Pentecostal and Charismatic pastor friends.
- Most Concise Reponse: Shane Claiborne on Texas' capital punishment record.
- September's Best Object Lesson: Spiritual Warfare: What To Do When You Encounter a Lion. (Don't miss page two!)
- Essay of the Week: This week it's another look at the (sometimes contentious) issue of infant baptism …
- … while another writer suggests that errant doctrinal positions that led to the Protestant Reformation are slowly creeping back into Protestantism.
- Most Linked-To Everywhere Else: An interview with Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell on the reigniting of his faith while working on David and Goliath.
- From the Land of Unusual Allegories: Preaching is Basically a Hail Storm. (Are you making a dent?)
- "Are we doing the right thing?" A prolific Canadian Christian author and mom to four boys on refusing to feel guilty in six different parenting departments.
- Open Letter Department: Tony Jones to Marcus Borg: Jesus rose from the dead.
- When writers Tweet older blog pieces: Michael Patton on reasons for and against the inclusion of the Apocrypha. (December, 2012)
- And it came to pass that See You At The Pole begat Fields of Faith.
- 25 Years Ago on this date (give or take several months) before we had the word 'tween,' the children's music sounds of Prism Red.
- Does your church dim the lights when the worship time begins? Lee Grady wishes you would leave the lighting alone.
- If you're in Atlanta on Thursday night, you can always catch the pairing of Ravi Zacharias with Jeff Foxworthy (and radio host Dennis Prager) but you'll need tickets. (Can't wait to see if the next one is Hank Hanegraaff and Billy Ray Cyrus.)
- When I say "Darlene Zschech" you say "Hillsong," but more recently the word you want to remember is hope.
- As wooden pews are slowly facing extinction in favor of chairs, this trend in church furniture has attracted the attention of The Wall Street Journal.
- Married? Here's a great checklist: Five Questions to Ask Your Spouse Every Week. (Okay, I added the italics.)
- Magic Musical Moment: Sam Robson's acapella O Love That Will Not Let Me Go. Like that? Here's a bonus: It is Well With My Soul.
- Weird Video of the Week: Hosanna by Hillsong for Synthesia (Don't think Michael W. Smith learned piano this way.)
- Those "Get Inside Rob Bell's Brain" mini conferences (my title, not his) must be going well, since there are two more events scheduled.
- Last week was the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Tolerance aka the Edict of Milan. (Sorry I didn't get you anything.)
- Before you click the link, take a guess as to the Top 5 Bible translations in the U.S.
- The Boy Scouts in the UK now have an alternative pledge for atheists.
- King James Only advocates have a problem with the fact that HarperCollins publishes both the NIV and The Satanic Bible. So whatever you do, don't show them this page.
Without giving away his age; Paul Wilkinson spent his formative years in Toronto's Peoples Church at a time when it was Canada's only megachurch, and attended their horse ranch, where one of the beasts once stepped on his foot. (More amazing personal details to follow…)
