Category: Asides

This is sad news. 

African Nations Surge Up Ranks of World’s Worst Per­se­cu­tors: Mali, Tan­za­nia, Kenya, Ugan­da, and Niger make debuts on Open Doors’s 2013 World Watch List.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

This chart is very sim­ple but I think it cap­tures some­thing that eludes many Chris­tians.

What Can and Can­not Change in Our Rela­tion­ship with God

Bryan Chapell and John Owen help us to see the dif­fer­ence between uni­lat­er­al, unchang­ing union with God and the dynam­ic response of com­mu­nion with him.Bryan Chapell and John Owen help us to see the di…

This would nev­er have occurred to me, although I won­der if some­one who is a veg­e­tar­i­an for eth­i­cal rea­sons would val­ue the life of a mouse less than the life of a cow.

How bru­tal is veg­e­tar­i­an­ism to ani­mals?

Here is one take on the mat­ter, from Mike Archer, con­tro­ver­sial to be sure, and in some ways under-argued, but offer­ing some points to pon­der: … the largest and best-researched loss of sen­tie…

How sim­ple and yet how help­ful. 

“Some­times it’s the sim­plest things that make the biggest dif­fer­ence. For many years I’ve used the 3 R’s I learned from Ben Pat­ter­son to pray through Scrip­ture. This sim­ple tool has helped me pray the Bible more than any oth­er sin­gle strat­e­gy. I’ve used in my devo­tion­al times and have employed it often in lead­ing oth­ers in prayer.

1. Rejoice
2. Repent
3. Request

With every verse in the Bible we can do one (or more like­ly, all three) of these things.”

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2013/01/04/how-to-pray-using-scripture/

This is my favorite Dil­bert in a while.

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 01/04/2013 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…

File this under “not entire­ly unex­pect­ed obser­va­tions”

When women dare to out­earn men

OF THE many glass ceil­ings con­strain­ing wom­en’s careers, one is par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant yet often over­looked: the wage of the hus­band. In a new paper, Mar­i­anne…

I find the first point fun­ny. “Don’t lie — it will cost you mon­ey!”

What Lying Actu­al­ly Does to Your Brain and Body Every Day

Each day, we make the same choice hun­dreds of times: whether to lie or tell the truth. It often hap­pens with­out think­ing, and we ignore the pro­found impact of these seem­ing­ly incon­se­quen­tial deci­sion…

This is huge.

Wheaton Col­lege Wins ‘Major Vic­to­ry’ Against HHS Con­tra­cep­tive Man­date: Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment makes ‘bind­ing com­mit­ment’ to ‘nev­er enforce’ cur­rent man­date against reli­gious employ­ers.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

I have been won­der­ing about this recent­ly — I was always taught as a child that the 2nd Amend­ment was about empow­er­ing cit­i­zens for vio­lent insur­rec­tion should it ever become nec­es­sary. This is a very suc­cinct expla­na­tion of how that notion mor­phed into the notion of firearms for per­son­al pro­tec­tion that is preva­lent today.

A his­to­ry of the Sec­ond Amend­ment in two paint­ings

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Yes.

In Praise of Denom­i­na­tions

Guest Blog­ger: Jason Helopou­los. “We are mov­ing into a post-denom­i­na­tion­al age” or so we are told. If that is the case, I for one don’t think it is good news. Denom­i­na­tions serve a real pur­pose and ar…