A La Carte (11/19)

  • Tim Challies
  • 11/19/09
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Christians and Vampires Oh boy. "Vamping Up: Christians Bite into Vampire Market" is a headline in Publishers Weekly's Christians Bookline. Looks like Christians need their vampire fix, too.

Illustration Challenge Lukas VanDyke, photographer extraordinaire, decided to take on a strange but cool little project. He read through the five most recent posts on my blog and then went out and snapped a photo related to each. You can check out the (pretty amazing) results at the link. The Kindle in Canada The Kindle finally comes to Canada. Strangely, though, it's only for sale from amazon.com, not amazon.ca. R. Crumb's "Genesis" Dr. Mohler writes about R. Crumb's graphic novel retelling of Genesis. I spotted this in the store recently and was thinking about buying it. As luck would have it, when I flipped it open I was at the story of Lot and his daughters. That one page was enough to convince me that I wasn't going to let my kids see the book! Words and the Word of God Mounce does what he does so well at Koinonia Blog. This week he discusses a little Greek word and asks what it tells us about verbal, plenary inspiration. Eight Great Date Nights There are some good ideas in this list. "Tired of the old dinner-and-a-movie routine, but not sure what else to do on your date nights? Try these eight ideas to get your creative juices flowing!"

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a comment from Renee • 11/19 @ 11:39am
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I wonder how Bateman incorporates her vampire fiction with ‘Jesus never fails.’ theology. Pretty incredible contradiction, I'd say. That these books are sold by Christian book stores is even more incredible. There will come a day, that the many who like to call themselves "Christians", will disassociate themselves from the name. "Be ye holy as I am holy." doesn't appear to be part of their theology now. But Jesus Christ expects nothing less.

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a comment from Nathan • 11/19 @ 1:49pm


Those date ideas sound really thrilling -- why didn't I think of these?!

Instead of dinner and a movie -- do dinner and a play.
Instead of staying in at home -- stay at someone else's house.
Instead of eating at one restaurant -- eat at three.

Do relationships really get to the point where these are the stellar date ideas? I should just shoot myself now...

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a comment from Chris • 11/19 @ 3:07pm

Thanks for doing these A La Cartes every day along with your blog. So much better than going to local news!
Love Lukas' work, he's a phenominal photographer! Wish i could have done his workshop here in toronto.

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a comment from Aaron Wilson • 11/19 @ 3:41pm
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Did you say, "luck"? :)

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a comment from Joshua Krohse • 11/19 @ 5:19pm
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Nathan,
What are your stellar date ideas? Do you have some great ideas for keeping dating interested when you've been married ten or twenty years, have children, and are on a budget? I thought CT's suggestions were pretty good--it's easy to settle into a routine.

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a comment from Nick Coller • 11/19 @ 6:34pm

I'm more than a little disappointed that Lucas didn't do this exercise today, so we'd have the perfect book cover for your new novel...

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a comment from Nathan • 11/20 @ 6:23pm

I'm not sure if I have stellar date ideas, but here are a few ideas:

One of my recent better-than-average dates that I’ve been on was visiting a Humane Society adopt-a-pet fair. The animals were so cute and it was a lot of fun to interact with them and my date. We went blueberry picking at the blueberry farm that was next to the fair.

Learn together:
Zoos
Animal Encounters
Bug Encounters
Factory tours
Walking tours
Granite Curling lessons
Model Airplane flying lessons
Rifle range
Whatever -- the idea is to spend time together and experience life together, no?

Make Christmas shopping for your kids a date! How cute is that? Make sure to have time to drop in a cozy coffee shop for a cup of cocoa or coffee. Don’t forget the snuggle time together at home to recuperate from the day! I probably don’t have to remind you that hot showers help tired muscles, too. (Oops, you said you’ve been married for a decade or more, my bad :P)

In my area, ferries are a big thing. A ferry ride is about $5 or so a person. Getting out on the water is so cool. The views are awesome. It’s better than a drive because neither of you have to drive; you can just pay attention to each other inside or outside the boat. If it’s raining -- no big deal, just bring some rainwear...

Carnivals are blast without kids pulling you in every direction. You get to ride the big rides and don’t have bathroom detail.