Apr
26
2010
Worth a Look 4.26.10
Andy Crouch’s review of James Davidson Hunter’s To Change the World:
I spent some of my formative years among mainline Protestants for whom “faithful presence” was the very watchword, but in practice that meant nearly complete cultural accommodation. This is perhaps the greatest practical obstacle to enacting Hunter’s vision. Creating a strong alternative community to counter the dominant culture, while still boldly commissioning that community’s members for presence even in places of great cultural power, has proven quite the sticky wicket for two millennia now.
Miley Cyrus says the internet wastes your life:
“I just think it’s kind of lame… I feel like I hang out with my friends and they’re so busy taking pictures of what they’re doing and putting them on Facebook that they’re not really enjoying what they’re doing. You’re going to look back and have a million pictures, but you’re not going to be in any of them. Because you’re not having fun, you’re too busy clicking away. So I think, just enjoy the moment you’re in, and stop telling people about it. Just enjoy it.”
Ted Traylor is the third candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here is the news release. (I will be writing about this tomorrow.)
Traylor told the Witness he agreed to be nominated “in response to the Lord’s prompting and the encouragement of friends across the SBC.” Anticipating the future, Traylor said his goal is “to serve and lead the Convention I love into a revival of the Great Commission in the days ahead.”
Here is William Evans’ take on last week’s Wheaton Conference about the theology of N.T. Wright:
I also came away sensing that the Wheaton invitation was not a misstep and that Wright is a man of authentic evangelical (small “e”) piety even if, in my judgment, he is not “right” on everything–in short, he really does love the Lord and genuinely strives to be biblical. But there are also, in my opinion, at least three significant dangers lurking in his theology…
Speaking of the Wheaton Conference, here’s the view of someone present at Wright’s conference as well as Together for the Gospel:
But “all one” is easier said than done. And at the two conferences I attended, the contradictions and complexities of what it means to be one body and one family in Christ were made manifest.