Since the Fall of the Taliban, it appears Said Musa might be the first convert from Islam to be executed by the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan. A Christian for the last eight years, Musa was one of about 25 Christians arrested on May 31, 2010, after a May 27 Noorin TV program showed video of a worship service held by indigenous Afghan Christians. In fact, he was arrested as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy. Musa has no Afghan lawyer, and has been held in prison for several months, where he's been beaten and sexually abused. Please continue to pray for him. Many … [Read more...] about Pray (and Tweet) for Our Brother, Said Musa
Archives for February 2011
Kay S. Hymowitz on Delayed Adolescence
Kay S. Hymowitz has an essay in yesterday's WSJ arguing that too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adolescence. I'm not sure that male diminishment is solely attributable to female advancement, but Hymowitz lays out an ambitious case: What explains this puerile shallowness? I see it as an expression of our cultural uncertainty about the social role of men. It's been an almost universal rule of civilization that girls became women simply by reaching physical maturity, but boys had to pass a test. They needed to demonstrate courage, physical prowess or mastery … [Read more...] about Kay S. Hymowitz on Delayed Adolescence
The Myth of Inevitable Teen Rebellion
Dr. Robert Epstein (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a contributing editor for Scientific American Mind and a former editor in chief of Psychology Today. In the April/May 2007 issue of Scientific American Mind, Epstein penned an outstanding article entitled The Myth of the Teen Brain. It goes right after the notion, regularly popularized on the covers of magazines like Time and U.S. News & World Report, that incomplete brain development accounts for the emotional problems and general irresponsibility for which teenagers in our day have gained infamy, and that, consequently, rebellion and … [Read more...] about The Myth of Inevitable Teen Rebellion
Tim Keller’s King’s Cross
I was happy to receive this book in the mail earlier this week -- Tim Keller's latest, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus, releases February 22. In the Preface, Keller calls it: "an extended meditation on the historical Christian premise that Jesus' life, death, and resurrection form the central event of cosmic and human history as well as the central organizing principle of our own lives." Keller continues: Said another way, the whole story of the world--and of how we fit into it--is most clearly understood through a careful, direct look at the story of Jesus. … [Read more...] about Tim Keller’s King’s Cross
Prayer Request for Egypt
Michael Horton compiles a good list of prayer requests for the Egyptian church, following the dramatic changes that have recently transpired. An excerpt: Seething beneath the public reports of peaceful protest were three weeks of violence, as daily police security was virtually non-existent, according to [Leader One]. There are about 1200 evangelical Protestant churches (over a million members) and early on in the Tahrir Square revolution, according to [Leader One], he and other evangelical leaders submitted an appeal in support of religious freedom (not for or against the … [Read more...] about Prayer Request for Egypt
A New AlexChediak.com
It's here: An updated website! (Thanks, Daniel.) Check it out -- some of the tabs above are menus. All the content from the old site should be here, and the organization should be a bit more clear. The resources tab contains published articles and some older audio interviews (I still need to get links for more recent--and I think better--interviews). You'll also notice the Facebook, Twitter, and general "share" feature all over the place. Finally! As you might suspect, there's a little information about a new book by the name of Thriving at College (368 pages, releases April 15, … [Read more...] about A New AlexChediak.com