Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
That’s right, if your teenager doesn’t seem interested in the Bible, just give him a copy of “Refuel,” a Bible-zine aimed at teen-age boys. It looks like a really cool magazine with the album cover from Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing on it, but open it up…and SURPRISE! It’s a Bible! Your teen will be … Read more
President Bush, long seen as dim-witted by the intellectual elite on college campuses everywhere, may be putting some intellectuals to the task on the issue of Islamic anti-Semitism: Yet social scientists have essentially remained mum concerning a problem that President Bush, in a speech in November, has placed high on the world agenda. “Europe’s leaders, … Read more
Here’s my favorite quote of the day—John Bush, a.k.a. The Discoshaman, writing on the recent terror attacks in Spain: Only fools and Democrats still believe that appeasement and compromise works with the radical Islamists. They understand force and submission, and no other languages. Harsh, but true. Anyone who thinks that the Islamofacists will stop killing … Read more
Russell Moore on the dilution of children’s Sunday school programs: So many evangelical children’s Sunday school classes are translating biblical texts into a baptized version of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Jesus’ calling of the twelve is about the fact that “Jesus had friends.” Jesus’ multiplication of the loaves and the fish is about the … Read more
Since I usually fail so miserably in picking my bracket for the NCAA basketball tournament, I’ve decided to try a new approach this year. For March Madness 2004, my bracket is as haphazard as ever. With more upsets than a Benny Hinn crusade, my bracket is sure be at the bottom of ESPN.com’s Tournament Challenge. … Read more
Much to my chagrin, I’m always finding out that I’m more influenced by our culture than I thought. Here’s a case in point—last night while reading Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, I kept getting distracted by length of all the paragraphs—some spanning more than a page. We’re conditioned by a number of influences to partake of … Read more
I’ve made some changes to the site layout this weekend. After much internal debate, TruePravda has decided to go 3-column (cue the Jefferson’s theme “Mooovin on up…”). I’ve checked the layout in Firefox and IE 6.0 and it looks OK, but with CSS layouts, you never know. If things on the site look really convoluted … Read more
Though there’s widespread allegations of heavy handedness in the election process, ex-KGB man Vladimir Putin won the Russian elections with 69% of the vote (much less that Saddam Hussein’s last margin of victory…). Was the election rigged? It’s quite possible. Did it matter to much if it was? Maybe not: “We voted for Putin because … Read more
Since my basketball team doesn’t fancy road games this year, I’ve done a little blog reading this weekend. Here are some posts of interest: Matt Hall has a report from some friends in Spain who were all but too close to the attacks this week. The Discoshaman has a though-provoking post on the morality of … Read more
Mars Hill Audio has made available an excellent essay [PDF] by theologian R.R. Reno entitled “Postmodern Irony and Petronian Humanism.” In the essay, Reno identifies two of the more prominent elements of postmodern culture as fear of authority and flight from truth. These elements serve to distance people from any serious engagement with truth: Nonetheless, … Read more