This is fascinating and well-reasoned: “Here is the paradox: ‘I feel like’ masquerades as a humble conversational offering, an invitation to share your feelings, too — but the phrase is an absolutist trump card. It halts argument in its tracks.”
Puritans on the Potomac
Timothy George has penned a great profile of Capitol Hill Baptist Church. “To reverse the fortunes of a flagging downtown congregation required skill, pluck, and some sanctified grit. [Mark] Dever had all of these, but he also put in place a strategy that most church growth gurus would have deplored.”
A Q&A with the Apostle Paul
Justin Taylor somehow convinced the Apostle Paul to take time out of his busy schedule to do a bit of Q&A.
The Preacher and Personal Productivity
I was a guest on a new episode of Jason Allen’s podcast Preaching and Preachers. We discussed pastors and personal productivity. Speaking personally, I really enjoyed the conversation since it was obvious that Allen has thought deeply about these issues.
You Are What You Eat
“The nation’s most popular recipe site reveals the enormous gap between foodie culture and what people actually cook.” The article has some stellar lines in it like this: “The casserole tasted exactly as you’d imagine: an alchemy of salt and lipids designed to flow to the pleasure centers of your brain before, shortly afterward, migrating to the shame centers and then hardening in the arteries.”
Aimee Semple McPherson and Early Pentecostalism
Robert Godfrey tells the bizarre story of Aimee Semple McPherson’s disapperance and offers his guess as to what really happened.
7 Troubling Questions About Transgender Theories
Trevin Wax: “These newfound controversies are complicated, at least in part because of transgender theory itself. The unmooring of ‘gender identity’ from ‘biological sex’ leads to a number of unresolved questions, as well as troubling inconsistencies among advocates of transgender rights.”
This Day in 1738. 278 years ago today, preacher and evangelist, George Whitefield, arrived in the United States for his first of seven ministry tours. *
Why American Passenger Trains Are So Bad
“Amtrak turns 45 today, leaving many people wondering how is it that a rich and powerful country that was a pioneer in railroad adoption in the 19th century has such terrible passenger trains today.” It’s not like the Canadian equivalent is any better.
Owls’ Silent Flight
This is an amazing little video from the BBC.
Flashback: Little Jumps in Studios
President Obama slow-jammed with Fallon and danced with Ellen. Prime Minister Thatcher refused to make a little jump. Here’s why it matters and why I admire her for it. (Note: Readers have requested that I link to my daily “Flashback” in A La Carte. I’m going to try it…)
I’m not afraid of failure; I’m afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
—William Carey
