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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Square Peg Alliance
The Square Peg Alliance now has a website! If you are not familiar with this group of Nashville songwriters, I highly recommend checking them out. The website includes a short bio of each of the 13, with them writing each … Continue reading
God is Dead
“God is dead”, declared Friedrich Nietzsche more than 100 years ago, and people today are still trying to convince themselves of that fact. Woody Allan, an avowed atheist, has made a number of films over the years pondering that statement … Continue reading
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Three Cheers for the Damned
In my previous post, I mentioned in passing that one important event at the SBC was cheering that the damned are damned. Continue reading
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The Supremacy of Traditions (and you thought I was going to say Christ)
The Southern Baptist Convention held its annual meeting the beginning of this week in North Carolina, with a couple of things worth mentioning coming out of it. Probably the best thing that happened is the election of Frank Page as … Continue reading
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Music City
Nashville is called Music City for a reason – In the past week I’ve heard Over the Rhine, David Wilcox, Jeff Coffin and Futureman, Matthew Perryman Jones and Sandra McCracken, and Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill. Continue reading
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Happy Baptists and Holy Grins
One of the books I’m reading now is Calvin Miller’s The Sermon Maker – Tales of a Transformed Preacher. On page 49, he writes: “Sam realized that most churches were bewildered by preachers who devoted themselves to long talks on … Continue reading
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Why I Don’t Read Christian Fiction
Here is another excerpt from the Stephen King book I read recently, On Writing. In my view, stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; … Continue reading
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Tomorrow’s Assignment
When was the last time you saw a great movie? A movie that gave you reason to stop and ‘consider the lilies’, a movie that made you think and rethink your life, a movie that challenged you to change, maybe … Continue reading
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The Red Witch
Tilda Swinton (the White Witch from the Narnia movie) gave a “State of the Cinema” address recently. In talking about why she is a communist and how she interprets C.S. Lewis’ writings, she says: “But I love the idea of … Continue reading
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The Divine Peppermint Stick
I reread Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 last week, the first time I’ve read it in about ten years. It’s hard to believe that it was written in 1953, so accurately does Bradbury describe today’s culture. For instance, when Faber is … Continue reading
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