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Thursday May 18, 2006 Technology: ESV Blog brings news of an ESV plugin for Microsoft Word. It uses “the ESV Web Service to insert a passage into a Word document.” Sounds useful enough… A La Carte: This is the 200th edition of A La Carte (according to the statistics in Movabletype). That’s not half bad!…

Wednesday May 17, 2006 Video: In case you missed Katie Couric’s interview with Joel Osteen on The Today Show (and you probably did), Keith has a link to it. Film: “AgapePress” has a good article, written by Ed Vitagliano which reflects on the “End of the Spear” controversy. “Sadly, the result has been a blunted…

Tuesday May 16, 2006 Giveaway: Adrian Warnock is having a small giveaway for bloggers who would like to blog their way through the Together For the Gospel Statement. Music: Kerry, a.k.a. BlackCalvinist, made a bootleg recording of one of the songs sung at the T4G Conference. He did not realize that he was not supposed…

Monday May 15, 2006 Web: “Washington Post” has a list of the most-visited domains in February 2005 and 2006. Unfortunately they only list the first fifty as I’m pretty sure Challies Dot Com would be ranked 51st. Web Bonus: “The Inquirer” has a list of the most dangerous search phrases. Typing any of these into…

Friday May 12, 2006 Politics: Justin Taylor had what I thought was a very good reflection on American Pessimism. “What used to be a moral sense that we had done something wrong now becomes conflated with compassion and is a sense that we should feel “guilty” and pessimistic if others are worse off than us.”…

Thursday May 11, 2006 Music: Bob Kauflin is looking to give away 50 copies of the “Worship God Live” CD, but only to people who meet the following criteria: “You are a pastor or a music minister/worship leader in your local church or ministry; You regularly write a blog (that people other than your family…

Wednesday May 10, 2006 Family: Maryanne discusses what a stay-at-home mom would earn if she was paid a salary. But “I want to cautiously avoid the increasingly feminist tones of our age which assert that women work harder than men, sacrifice more and should be overall esteemed in a way that men are not.” Da…

Tuesday May 9, 2006 Blogspotting: Peter Bogert responds to my charge that he was self-absorbed at the T4G Conference. “I carried a sign that I unfolded on a few occasions that said, ‘Hey Tim Challies – Hi.’ But Tim ignored it and one of his ‘guardians’ told me to move on or I’d never blog…

Monday May 8, 2006 Humor: Peter, who was at the T4G conference but was too self-absorbed to come over and say “hi” to me, has posted a list of missed giveaway opportunities at the conference. Among them are “RC Sproul, John Piper and John Macarthur Bobble head dolls.” Book: Justin Taylor’s newest book has been…

Friday May 5, 2006 Emergent: Pastor Paul Martin has turned a corner in his presentation of “Examining Emergent,” moving from the problem to The First Step Toward a Solution. Humor: Idle hands and a mischevous imagination – Electronic Road Signs and Me (HT: Hip and Thigh). Blogspotting: Matt Brown commented on The People Who Shape…

Thursday May 4, 2006 Design: New to the blogosphere is Mike Hess with his uniquely-named site “Extreme Fundamentalist Makeover.” I am responsible, for good or for ill, for the design. You can see it here. Humor: “The Sacred Sandwich” has published it’s May edition. Headline: “Confused Church Group Learns Meditation from Saint Bernard.” Church History:…

Wednesday May 3, 2006 Conference: Josh Harris has a post about the Together for the Gospel Conference and shares a letter he sent to his friend, hero and mentor C.J. Mahaney after he returned home. Resource: Chad Dalton has been hard at work updating The Minor Prophet library. The library collects and compiles reflections and…

Tuesday May 2, 2006 Conference: Laurie, aka Ordinary Mother, writes that even though she could not attend the Together for the Gospel Conference, she and her family are together for the gospel too! Commentary: Al Mohler has an interesting little article dealing with “the high cost of speed.” “I know of no way to resolve…

Monday May 1, 2006 Conference: Ligon Duncan (who was there) and Adrian Warnock (who wishes he was there!) have helpful roundups of many of the posts coming out of the Together for the Gospel Conference. Bible: The ESV Blog announces that Crossway will soon have a “Journaling Bible” available. “The Journaling Bible is a unique…

Wednesday April 26 – Friday April 28, 2006 A La Carte will be on a brief hiatus for the remainder of this week while I attend the Together for the Gospel Conference. I do not anticipate having time or opportunity to read other blogs while I am at the conference. It will return, Lord willing,…

Tuesday April 25, 2006 Poetry: The Bible Bard, having read an article I linked to in one of last week’s A La Carte editions, thought about carbon monoxide and came up with the following limerick. Publishing: Thomas Nelson has a new imprint called NakedInk. Their first book will be called “The Hot Mom’s Handbook: Blondes…

Monday April 24, 2006 Film: Early reviews of the upcoming film United 93 are beginning to trickle in. Mary Katherine Ham posted one such review at Hugh Hewitt’s site. “I’m not gonna lie. It wasn’t easy to watch. But I’m glad I watched it.” Military: Canada suffered its worst military tragedy since the Korean War,…

Friday April 21, 2006 Culture: Ann Coulter takes a devastating swing at our culture. “However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don’t hire strange women to…

Wednesday April 19, 2006 Theology: David Field manages to encapsulate the 5 points of Calvinism in the form of a limerick. For other Bible-based limericks, check out the Bible Bus. Conference: Timmy, who has organized the Band of Bloggers meeting prior to the Together for the Gospel conference, has added a post to his site…