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Choco De Jesus, one of the pas­tors from my denom­i­na­tion (the Assem­blies of God), is fea­tured on the cov­er of TIME mag­a­zine. Con­grat­u­la­tions, Pas­tor Choco! http://georgeowood.com/pastor-choco-graces-cover-of-time-magazine/ 

Pas­tor Choco in TIME Mag­a­zine

A big con­grat­u­la­tions is in order today to our AG broth­er, Pas­tor Choco. His image graces the mul­ti-fold cov­er of TIME mag­a­zine today as a leader of the His­pan­ic Evan­gel­i­cal Com­mu­ni­ty. Sev­er­al AG p.…..

What an unex­pect­ed and inter­est­ing per­spec­tive. Tyler Cowen may just be my favorite blog­ger.

The cul­ture of guns, the cul­ture of alco­hol

I receive many emails ask­ing me what is my atti­tude toward guns and gun con­trol. I would say I wish it worked bet­ter than it does (a key point), I don’t think it works very well, I am hap­py to

I just read a very insight­ful dis­cus­sion about race and Chris­tian­i­ty between Thabiti Anyab­wile and Doug Wil­son: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabitianyabwile/2013/04/02/a‑black-and-tan-round-up/ — it’s long but worth­while (tip: I opened up all the links in new tabs and worked through them one at a time).

A “Black and Tan” Round-Up

For the past cou­ple of weeks, Dou­glas Wil­son and I have car­ried on a dis­cus­sion of his book, Black and Tan. The book and its pre­quel, South­ern Slav­ery As It Was, trig­gered con­tro­ver­sy that’s last­ed th…

“One of the most awk­ward and painful truths in Amer­i­can high­er edu­ca­tion is that it is per­fect­ly legal for pri­vate col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties — on the left and right — to dis­crim­i­nate against peo­ple who refuse to fol­low, or at least respect, the teach­ings at the core of these vol­un­tary asso­ci­a­tions. How­ev­er, and this is the tricky part for many jour­nal­ists, these insti­tu­tions must use a truth-in-adver­tis­ing approach when deal­ing with poten­tial stu­dents, fac­ul­ty and the pub­lic.” — this sum­ma­rizes the sit­u­a­tion per­fect­ly and is some­thing that many in the media seem to miss. A place such as Van­der­bilt can dis­al­low Chris­t­ian groups from requir­ing their lead­ers to be ortho­dox Chris­tians, but it needs to let stu­dents know that before they enroll. It will affect peo­ple’s deci­sions.

Abor­tion, rights, view­point dis­crim­i­na­tion and Johns Hop­kins

tmatt | Acad­e­mia, Peo­ple, Pol­i­tics, Social Issues

This makes sense to me. If you think envi­ron­men­tal­ism is not a reli­gious belief then I sub­mit that you either don’t under­stand envi­ron­men­tal­ists or that you don’t under­stand reli­gion. This is dou­bly true for veg­ans. Bonus: my favorite veg­an joke is http://lolsnaps.com/news/41045/0/

Veg­ans and Envi­ron­men­tal­ists Should Have Same Work­place Rights as Chris­tians, Says Britain

Updat­ed equal­i­ty guide­lines offer pro­tec­tions for employ­ees with ‘pro­found per­son­al beliefs.’

Wow — I did­n’t real­ize he was so dom­i­nant.
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Church­es around the world used 128 songs he wrote or co-wrote last year, Rachin­s­ki said. CCLI esti­mates that every Sun­day in the Unit­ed States, between 60,000 and 120,000 church­es are singing Tomlin’s songs. By extrap­o­lat­ing that data, Rachin­s­ki says, “our best guess would be in the Unit­ed States on any giv­en Sun­day, 20 to 30 mil­lion peo­ple would be singing Chris Tom­lin’s songs.”

Chris Tom­lin, king of the sing-along

By Eric Mar­rapo­di and Tom Fore­man, CNN Bal­ti­more (CNN) — The capac­i­ty crowd at the 1st Mariner Are­na in Bal­ti­more is bounc­ing in uni­son to the most wide­ly sung music on the plan­et today. The ca…

I have said sim­i­lar things before (both to stu­dents and to young moms). Deal­ing with young kids is tough.

An Encour­ag­ing Word for Moth­ers of Young Chil­dren

Mar­tyn Lloyd-Jones once spoke with a group of med­ical stu­dents who com­plained that in the midst of their train­ing and the fero­cious work hours they real­ly didn’t even have time to read the Bible an.…..

What an inter­est­ing idea. I like Piper’s ques­tion — espe­cial­ly how he would hope to start by lis­ten­ing. Note that this is from 2009 and is in no way relat­ed to cur­rent events (except that my inter­est in cur­rent events is what prompt­ed me to share it).

If You Had Two Min­utes to Talk With the Pope, What Would You Say to Him?

John Piper says he would talk to the pope about jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.

This is a real­ly beau­ti­ful video.

Home­less Guy vs Mag­ic Trick — Epic Win

March(9) · Home­less Guy vs Mag­ic Trick · Gui­tar Oscil­la­tions Cap­tured with iPhone 4 · Real Life Spam­mer · Epic Snow Clear · 360 slide over­take · Rafael Nadal and Ben Stiller play vs Juan Mar­tin d… F…

I can’t decide whether I like pan­el two or pan­el three bet­ter. Basic Instruc­tions deliv­ers again.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Accept Your Lim­i­ta­tions

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