Dec
08
2009
Worth a Look 12.8.09
Preacher in the hands of an angry church: How Jonathan Edwards was ejected from his congregation.
Friends and enemies alike agreed that in the long, degenerating discontent, Edwards continued to love and pray for—or at least tolerate and refrain from attacking—his people, even when they bared their fangs.
An explosive evaluation of the Global Warming Movement. Owen sums it up:
As you can see, the climate change movement is highly politicized. The science is far from a sure thing; the movement itself is fractured; there is steadily increasing uncertainty even among supporters of this cause. We do not need to write the climate change folks off at this point; we should hear them out and wait to see if they can produce hard data. If they can, we may well need to modify the way we live in this world. I’m prepared to do so.
But, if the CRU fiasco exposed above is as bad as it looks, I wonder whether we are a long way from reaching this point. Climate change is notoriously hard to prove, especially when one looks back to eras for which no data exists. Christians would do well, it seems to me, to care for the earth as best we can in our efforts to glorify our Lord, and to avoid falling prey to groupthink and cultural pressure.
More trouble for the Anglican Communion:
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles this weekend elected Mary Glasspool, an openly lesbian priest, to be one of its assistant bishops. This is sure to trigger new anxieties and power struggles in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Under limitations in effect since the election of New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson in 2003, Anglicans have more or less developed a consensus not to elect openly practicing homosexuals to the office of bishop. With this move, the consensus becomes all but unsustainable.
Nick Mackison wonders why Reformed theologians who emphasize the imputed active obedience of Christ have not taken to the subjective reading of pistis christou (faithfulness of Christ rather than faith in Christ). I have asked that same question!