January 2010
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We've Moved and Improved!
We’ve moved the vast majority of my blogging life over to the BRAND NEW BenandJacq.com, effective immediately. I’ve re-posted almost all the non-photo posts from here to there, so that it doesn’t look too lonely, and from here on out I’ll use this tumblr blog for silly things I find on the web and/or pictures. Check out my first post over there, a satirical look at my...
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Pat Robertson and I, the Temanites.
I just got done reading Job 4 and 5, and was struck by the parallels between Pat Robertson’s comments yesterday and Eliphaz the Temanite’s comments to Job.
The major lesson? In the face of tragedy, responding with theological truisms (or conjecture) is not only insensitive, it’s the exact opposite of the Christian message, even if those truisms and conjecture are correct.
What...
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Grading Parents might take more than Originality.
Lately a trend on the facebook is folks taking a quiz that grades their parents on originality in naming them. The only metric (as far as I can tell) to factor into the grade is how many other folks were named what you are named during your birthyear. Making it easy to simultaneously grade highly and win an award for a terrible parenting decision.
Here’s a few of the names Jacqueline and...
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The Terrifying thought of Christ-centered...
Thanks to the power of Twitter, and my ever-running search for “campus crusade” I saw this tweet yesterday:
A terrifying description of the Campus Crusade for Christ Club: “We are here to help turn lost students into Christ-centered laborers.” —@gogocosmonaut
To which I responded:
you and I must have a different view of Christ. It’s terrifying that anyone...
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The Reason for God.
The Reason for God by Tim Keller is a must-read for anyone looking for a pastoral, thoughtful, and compelling defense of the Christian faith.
I call it pastoral because, unlike some theological works (even those by such great minds as CS Lewis), this book doesn’t at any point talk down to it’s reader. It is a defense, to be sure, of the Christian faith. But it feels like Pastor Tim...
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Earth.
Have you seen the movie Earth? It’s narrated by James Earl Jones, so that alone should convince you. That man could read the labels on a tube of lipstick to me and I would pay attention.
But the narrator is not why I’d suggest you go see Earth. The movie is a fascinatingly well-done documentary that literally was shot from the North Pole to the South Pole. We watched it at a...