May
25
2010
Worth a Look 5.25.10
Why Johnny Can’t Read the Bible:
Motivated churches, small groups, and even public school teachers are finding ways to take biblical literacy beyond name recognition.
Tim Keller on “talking to the world”:
I think that in our contemporary society, Christians’ beliefs about sex and gender will be one of the biggest points of conflict with our culture. We will need to co-opt some of our culture’s own baseline narratives (the importance of human dignity and community) in order to gain any hearing at all for our beliefs.
Mark Twain’s autobiography is soon to be released:
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
Lost’s adventure doesn’t end with the finale. Here’s Books and Culture ‘s take:
LOST has often been described as an epic journey, and for the last year, it seemed to be building to a definitive confrontation between good and evil. But LOST was always more Lord of the Flies than Lord of the Rings.