The Internet Monk gives a more positive review of Apocalypto than I would have. Nevertheless, I think he makes some good points: "His [Jaguar Paw's] journey takes him into the heart of a dying world. It is a world of stunning, impressive accomplishments and conspicuous consumption, but it is also a world where self-justifying desperation gives birth to tribal violence and captivating religions that encourage and approve of atrocity. Jaguar Paw journeys through an adventure where arrogance, ecological disaster and unleashed depravity are bringing down a world that believes it can never end. It … [Read more...] about Mel Gibson’s Apocalytpo
Interview with Ligon Duncan – streaming MP3
My interview with Ligon Duncan (from back in October) about With One Voice is now available as an MP3 on the "Audio" section of this website. Here's some information on the radio program hosted by Pastor Duncan (and, generally, Derek Thomas): First Things. 9:00 am - 9:30 am Sunday. First Things is the weekly radio program carried live on Jackson radio station WJNT News/Talk 1180 AM. Format consists of interviews, devotional messages and panel discussion of contemporary social and theological subjects. You will need Real Audio to listen, which may be downloaded from the WJNT web site. Ligon … [Read more...] about Interview with Ligon Duncan – streaming MP3
Numbering our Days
Psalm 90 repays a slow reading at the turning of a year: "The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Ps. 90:10-12) Josh Harris begins a series of posts on 4 qualities of the “heart of wisdom” we should seek to cultivate (v.12). … [Read more...] about Numbering our Days
America – Free or Secular?
Dennis Prager poses the question: "Are we a Judeo-Christian country with liberty for people of every, and of no, faith? Or are we a secular country that happens to have within it a large number of individuals who hold Judeo-Christian values?" His answer is the former. He also notes: "...the Founders regarded America as a Second Israel, in Abraham Lincoln's words, the "Almost Chosen" People. This self-identification was so deep that Thomas Jefferson, today often described as not even a Christian, wanted the seal of the United States to depict the Jews leaving Egypt at the splitting of the sea. … [Read more...] about America – Free or Secular?
Pat Robertson predicts “mass killing” in late 2007
Pat Robertson is at it again, making predictions with an authoritative facade of "the Lord told me." How embarrassing to Christians everywhere! VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007. … [Read more...] about Pat Robertson predicts “mass killing” in late 2007
White Guilt – Book Introduction/Review/Summary
"In the '60s--the first instance of open mutual witness between blacks and whites in American history--a balance of power was struck between the races. The broad white acknowledgment of racism meant that whites would be responsible both for overcoming their racism and for ending black poverty because, after all, their racism had so obviously caused that poverty. For whites to suggest that blacks might be in some way responsible for their own poverty would be to relinquish this responsibility and, thus, to return to racism. So, from its start in the '60s, this balance of power (offering … [Read more...] about White Guilt – Book Introduction/Review/Summary