Here are a couple blogs that caught my eye recently:
Planet Dozer has a post drawing attention to the lack of clean water in certain parts of the world. He says, in part:
…Water has always been magical to me. I love the reflection of the sunset on the water, like a mirror reflecting creation back to the heavens. I love the rush of water from a rushing river surrounding me in my kayak, feeling the energy coursing through the river. It amazes me the life that flows into and out of the water, ecosystems both microscopic and immense. Life does not work without water, the basic element for survival. (read full post)
And Striker_21 blogs about Protecting the Mind:
It’s tempting to approach protecting the mind by averting the eyes and covering the ears. There’s some validity in that approach. At the very least it recognizes that what you see, hear, and read affect you both positively and negatively. It’s also fairly simple to implement, as all you need is a relatively simple filter list, like the one you just mentioned, to screen out that which might affect you negatively. For those reasons and more, it’s probably the most popular method of protecting the mind. This is true not only of Christians, but also Muslims, and even atheists who feel a need to protect their mind from perceived harm….
Moreover, aggressive filtering of what we see, hear, and read, can go counter to the charge of the text to seek thing true and honest. Movies, music, and books stripped of sin certainly don’t reflect reality. Instead they’re a fantasy world, and often not a Christian one at all. And such filters would do away with large sections of the Bible as well, with its violence, adultery, pre-marital sex, lying, cheating, stealing, pride… (read full post)