Monday, January 29, 2007
The Best of Times and . . .
A Fast Look at a New World
I'm behind on some necessary schoolwork, so I'll give you three web articles I found (in roughly 10 minutes) that demonstrate how pervasive (and perverse) the use of the Bible is in our world.
Barak, Blogs, and Blasphemy, Anyone?
Timothy Noah in Slate's Chatterbox blog decides to do a "Messiah watch" on Barak Obama. I'm not sure what bothers me more: that the term "Messiah" is being used to describe American political leaders, or that Timothy Noah is doing it because he thinks it's comical.
Plotz's Plot Against America
Ok, so now we have blogs about blogs and blogs that monitor the comments about other blogs (I'm not sure what sort of cyber-slang to use for that). Anyway, a long time ago, I mentioned David Plotz's adventure of "blogging the Bible". Well, his escapades in Jeremiah are raising some significant comment. . . particularly from a certain MarkEHaag, who's convinced that Plotz's rant against subversive Jeremiah is really about an new (and wrong) American definition of patriotism. How's that for finding America in Bible prophecy . . .
Sorry about the pun with the Philip Roth title . . .
Budweiser, Baptists, and Biblical Church
Last, but not least, take a look at this new ministry from The Journey, an "emerging church" in good ol' STL. They meet . . .at a brewery. Why? Because the call of the Church is to go to the people, not make the people come to them. BTW, it started in '02 with 30 members; today it has 1200. Hmmm . . .could Apostolics do this? Why or why not?
Would love to hear from you . . .
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail me!
I'm behind on some necessary schoolwork, so I'll give you three web articles I found (in roughly 10 minutes) that demonstrate how pervasive (and perverse) the use of the Bible is in our world.
Barak, Blogs, and Blasphemy, Anyone?
Timothy Noah in Slate's Chatterbox blog decides to do a "Messiah watch" on Barak Obama. I'm not sure what bothers me more: that the term "Messiah" is being used to describe American political leaders, or that Timothy Noah is doing it because he thinks it's comical.
Plotz's Plot Against America
Ok, so now we have blogs about blogs and blogs that monitor the comments about other blogs (I'm not sure what sort of cyber-slang to use for that). Anyway, a long time ago, I mentioned David Plotz's adventure of "blogging the Bible". Well, his escapades in Jeremiah are raising some significant comment. . . particularly from a certain MarkEHaag, who's convinced that Plotz's rant against subversive Jeremiah is really about an new (and wrong) American definition of patriotism. How's that for finding America in Bible prophecy . . .
Sorry about the pun with the Philip Roth title . . .
Budweiser, Baptists, and Biblical Church
Last, but not least, take a look at this new ministry from The Journey, an "emerging church" in good ol' STL. They meet . . .at a brewery. Why? Because the call of the Church is to go to the people, not make the people come to them. BTW, it started in '02 with 30 members; today it has 1200. Hmmm . . .could Apostolics do this? Why or why not?
Would love to hear from you . . .
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail me!
# posted by Luke @ 9:11 PM 
