·        My favorite radio program (a “must listen”): White Horse Inn

·        Articles worth pondering

o       David Gibson, “Assumed Evangelicalism”

o       Michael Horton, “The Apostle Paul & Oprah Winfrey”

o       Rod Rosenblatt, “Solus Christus and the Pastor”

o       Dick Meyer, “The Truth of Truthiness”

·        Some favorite books

o       Michael Horton, Beyond Culture Wars

o       D.G. Hart, Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham

·        Some favorite quotes

o       “Better to be ruled by a smart Turk than a dumb Christian.”
—Martin Luther (reportedly)

o        “Melanchthon, go and sin bravely! Then go to the cross and bravely confess it! The whole Gospel is outside of us!”
—Martin Luther in a letter to Philip Melancthon

o        “I’m wary of ecumenism. I see nothing wrong with having six or ten or 15 different churches of Christ in town and people trouping to each one. If the alternative is some nondenominational New Agey all-purpose homogenized feel-good exercise, then give me schism.”
—Garrison Keillor

o       “Sunday feels odd without church in the morning. It’s the time in the week when we take our bearings, and if we miss it, we’re just following our noses. Of course, there’s a lot about church that can be aggravating—empty sermons and smarmy people and a certain comfy, complacent feeling. And then you have that organist in your face, destroying quietness wherever he can and then cranking up during hymns and assaulting you with the trumpet stops so you can’t hear yourself sing. But believing Christians are the people I want to be among. And every word of the Creed is true. And the organist shuts up during the prayers at least. And you think about your considerable sins. And you go forward to partake of the Savior's death and resurrection, and that’s the whole thing. Isn’t it?
—Garrison Keillor

o       “Words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head. The lives we make never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead.”
—Soundgarden, “The Day I Tried to Live”

o       “It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation.”
—Augustine, The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1:19–20 (A.D. 408)

·        Don’t miss “Every Breath You Take” from the Columbia Business School Follies