A few of the posts that are worth drawing to your attention from this week’s copious number of wise words I’ve been unable to comment on so far.
Ken Brown’s meme has been very successful. Just as interesting is his summary of some of the key influences that get repeated mentions.
A Penguin survey reveals some interesting / disturbing / shocking / unsurprising (pick your preferred adjective) about young people and unbelief in the UK. Church Mouse and David Keen both have some interesting comment. (I may come back to this one in a subsequent post.)
On the subject of surveys, Dave Walker of the Church Times blog has done a typically whimsical search of Facebook. Rather more people are into sex and sleeping than anything else. Jesus is more popular than Christ and both far more liked than God.
If you’ve ever wondered how either of our two universities do their marking, then check out Mary Beard’s post here. (And how interesting that from Cambridge’s officially secular college, she should choose the Alpha logo as an illustration)
Stephen Carlson notes the webpage of the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project. One to watch.
If like me you’ve never come across the use of Hermeneutics in Everyday Life, check out this post from Aaron Rathburn on the Theology and Culture blog.
Jim Davila posts on the honorary doctorate given to one of my favourite authors, and his address preceding it. Go, Stephen Donaldson. Thanks also to Loren Rosson for a link to this photo. Go Tom Wright. (BTW, does JIm Davila have the world’s least friendly URLs on the web?)
Halden has a much needed alternative view to far too many posts on Christianity and modernity. I’m not entirely sure how much I’m in agreement with the details, but it’s well worth pondering.
And finally, while Scott Bailey, Maggi Dawn and others are exercised about the apparently looming return of the tattooed terror faking the Holy Spirit in vain again, I think we should be at least as concerned about the awful preachers who’ve never been away. Richard Bartholomew summarises the sexist sex-mad Mark Driscoll’s “give your man a blow-job for Jesus” preaching. How convenient for Driscoll’s weird ideas on masculinity and female subservience that he thinks the Bible sees this only as a one way street.
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