Do people invite themselves to your home? I was encouraged by this because just this weekend, Angela and I invited ourselves to the new home of some friends. Tim Challies examines the inconvenience of being inconvenienced.
Do people feel they can come to your home only for formal Bible studies or can they come to your home for a personal chat or simply companionship? Do people feel they can drop by at a moment’s notice or do they wait to receive a formal invitation?
Is organic food more healthy? I admit to eating only organic venison, but that’s because I shoot it, not because I seek it out in the store. A new study says I may not be more healthy for that organic meat.
Stanford University scientists have weighed in on the “maybe not” side of the debate after an extensive examination of four decades of research comparing organic and conventional foods.They concluded that fruits and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts, which tend to be far less expensive.
It’s about relationship, not religion. Mark Altrogge objects to this contemporary Christian lingo.
Religion is a specific set of beliefs about God and the practices those beliefs require. If we don’t believe Jesus is God, who became a man, lived a life of perfect obedience to his Father, died on the cross for our sins, and rose from the dead, we won’t be saved and can have no relationship with the Father or Jesus Christ. Without religion there is no relationship.
Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. Carl Trueman reviews this book and gives it high praise. Trueman is usually a pretty systematic critic, so after his strong review I am anxious to read this autobiography of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield.
What makes her so interesting, however, is her career before marriage: she was a successful English literature professor at Syracuse University who specialized in Queer Theory and was herself a committed lesbian. This book is the story of how she came to be who and where she now is.
