Today’s Kindle deals include a long list of good deals from Crossway and Zondervan with a few others mixed in as well.
(Yesterday on the blog: A Pastoral Prayer from December)
What Happens When an Evangelical Pundit, Armed Only with 58K Twitter Followers and a Reference to the Bebbington Quadrilateral, Takes on a Historian
The title is a good description of what you’ll find in this article. I think this is important because it aptly shows how expertise is so often disregarded today. “On Thursday night a very interesting, revealing, and somewhat disturbing Twitter exchange took place between religion writer Jonathan Merritt and historian Thomas Kidd. Here is what happened…”
Reading The Jesus Storybook Bible in Iceland
This is a good read. “In the world’s most bookish country, evangelicals are taking up the ministry of translation.”
A Conversation with David Powlison
This is an encouraging conversation between Ed Welch and David Powlison. They discuss Powlison’s recent diagnosis of cancer.
What’s the Shortest International Border in the World?
The Canada-US border is the longest in the world. What’s the shortest?
Stop Saying 81 Percent of White Evangelicals Vote for Trump (It Was Probably Less Than Half)
Justin Taylor: “I know I’m fighting a losing battle with this post. It won’t go viral. It probably won’t change many minds. But I’ll give it a shot anyway. No matter how many times people make the claim, it is simply wrong to say that 81 percent of white evangelicals in the United States voted for Donald Trump to become president.”
Who Decides What Words Mean
I found this a fascinating one. “Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two stances. Either you smugly preen about the mistakes you find abhorrent – this makes you a so-called prescriptivist – or you show off your knowledge of language change, and poke holes in the prescriptivists’ facts – this makes you a descriptivist. Group membership is mandatory, and the two are mutually exclusive.”
Travel Photographer of the Year Awards
There are some stunning photos on display here.
Flashback: One Man’s Honor Is Another Man’s Shame
As Christians we need to think carefully and biblically rather than simply accepting what the culture dictates. It is possible that Western children will have to make efforts to convince their parents they ought to be honored while people from other cultures may need to refuse to conform to some of the expectations placed upon them.
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
—Jonathan Edwards
