A La Carte (2/14)

  • Tim Challies
  • 02/14/11
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Today is the day that the Blue Jays’ pitchers and catchers report for their first day of training. The 2011 season is coming up fast. And I just can’t wait.

What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves - There has been near-endless research and speculation about this. An op-ed in the New York Times is worth the read.

Adultery Incorporated - Albert Mohler looks at the adultery industry and offers some useful analysis of it. Yes, there actually is such an industry.

Answers for Pastors - 9Marks has a useful feature at their web site—a section of questions and answers for pastors.

Conan 2.0 - You don’t have to like Conan O’Brien to find this article interesting (disclosure: I’ve never seen his show and know little about him beyond what I’ve been reading in the media). It tells “how a late-night Luddite accidentally fought his way back into bedrooms (and computers, smartphones, and tablets) across America.”

How does the Gospel Conquer Pornography? - Tim Keller and D.A. Carson answer.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity. —John Calvin

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a comment from Lee • 02/14 @ 2:02pm
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“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” Unfortunately, history books still suggest that the Civil War was about slavery.

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a comment from Lee • 02/14 @ 2:14pm
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I forgot to cite Abraham Lincoln as the speaker of the above quote.

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a comment from pentamom • 02/14 @ 4:04pm

Lee, maybe that’s because the union wouldn’t have been at risk in the first place, had it not been for slavery. Whatever else was at issue, that was the factor without which things would not have reached the point that they did.

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a comment from pentamom • 02/14 @ 4:07pm

Noel Biderman’s wife is in some serious denial there. He says:

“Monogamy, in my opinion, is a failed experiment.”

But she says:

“Really, the business itself doesn’t match who he is as a person — it’s not our lifestyle or value system or any of that.”

It’s his opinion that monogamy is a failed experiment, but she thinks that’s not his value system. Huh?

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a comment from Phil • 02/15 @ 4:11am

Thank you for posting the Keller/Carson/Piper clip. That was an excellently balanced view; surprisingly concise for a discussion under 5 minutes.