Jan
31
2011
Worth a Look 1.31.11
The 2011 Christianity Today Book Awards
Ken Samples’ 100 Academic Commandments:
When I became a Christian at age 20, I began to understand that my mind really matters. (Beforehand, I didn’t engage in my studies and did just enough in school to get by.) It was then that I realized the importance of cultivating a well-informed, logical mind as well as building a coherent and defensible Christian worldview. Now as an adjunct professor at Biola University, I hope to encourage my students to come to that same realization. I offer my list of 100 academic commandments to help show students (and their parents) how to take full advantage of their school years and beyond.
If Lincoln saved the Union, she saved him, and for that alone she’s entitled to a decent respect. Measured by the usual yardsticks of wealth and distinction, her own life may not have made much of a dent in the historical record. But at just the right moment, she encountered a small motherless boy, and helped him to become Abraham Lincoln.
The best church ad I’ve ever seen: “Before we tell you who we are, we want to tell you who we were.” We are those foolish ones, those weak ones, those low and despised ones. Watch the video below.