Mar 18 2010

Break My Blog Giveaway – No. 1 – The Lost World of Genesis One

Category: Other PostsPolycarp @ 7:27 am

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For the next several weeks, I plan on giving away several books using the following method:

To enter, leave a comment. It has to be at least two words – mainly because it is a Wordpress thing. If you can get away with a one word comment, go for it.

Enter as many times as you want.

What?!!??

That’s right – I encourage you to break my blog. Leave as many comments as you want, and each one is an entry. You leave one comment – that’s one entry. You leave twenty comments, well, that’s twenty entries. If you leave 100 comments, well…you get the idea.

The first book up is John Walton’s, The Lost World of Genesis One, in honor of my trip to Indianapolis to hear his lecture on Thursday. So, the contest is over Thursday evening at some point.

They tell me that at some point, you can bog down the bandwidth, and I really want to see it happen.

Up coming will be one NLT bible – winner picks either a Study Bible, Life Recovery, or Mosaic, and a super secret book trying to get into paperback.

By the way, I shain’t respond as it might mess up the calculations when I use the program to pick the winner.

Remember, you can comment as many times as you want – each comment is an entry – until Thursday (3/18) evening.

Don’t subscribe!

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Mar 17 2010

Episcopal Church confirms first openly lesbian bishop

Category: Religious NewsPolycarp @ 10:31 pm

The Episcopal Church confirmed its first openly lesbian bishop on Wednesday, six years after its first openly gay bishop took office.

“I am profoundly grateful for the many people … who have given their prayers, love, and support during this time of discernment,” Bishop-elect Mary Douglas Glasspool said after learning she’d won support from the majority of her church’s standing committees and diocesan bishops.

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Mar 17 2010

Petraeus: Israeli Ties Hurting U.S. Soldiers

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 9:43 pm

U.S. General David Petraeus said on Wednesday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fomenting anti-American sentiment due to the perception of U.S. favoritism towards Israel.

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Mar 17 2010

A Cool Tyndale Contest – But Cooler than Mine?

Category: Other PostsPolycarp @ 1:53 pm

In the wake of my Break my Blog Contest series, Tyndale has started their own contest, to steal my thunder. I can only give away information, and they? A Trip to Hawaii. Sure, I understand that you might think you have to make a choice, but you don’t. You can enter both, because they are in no way related, except I announced mine early this morning and they…well, I don’t want to cast aspersions, but…

(as a reminder, you can continue to enter mine as any times as you want.)

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Mar 17 2010

Foundation Stone and Jewish Education

Category: Religious NewsPolycarp @ 11:59 am

Some of you may find this interesting:

Welcome to the Jewish World…

Foundation Stone is redrawing the map in Jewish Education. With innovative programs such as our Tel Yavne Prototype Excavation (TYPE), De’Ara Seminars and Educational Materials, and Media Resource Kits, we are anchoring traditional texts to the artifacts, maps, and locations that form the context for Jewish identity. Now that’s a mouthful. Feel free to explore – we welcome your contributions and insight – as together we empower the next generation…

You can find the website here:

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Mar 17 2010

A New Calvinism?

Category: Religious NewsPolycarp @ 11:59 am

This has been covered before, I imagine, but might be a good conversation starter:

I recently had the privilege of guest lecturing at the University of Texas on the topic of the Resurgence of Mission & Reformed Theology in America. Eileen Delao-Flynn, Professor and Religion writer for the Austin American-Statesman, was kind enough to extend me the invitation to address her Journalism & Religion class. The entire lecture would be too long to reproduce here. However, I have included a section on “Resurging Calvinism” below.

Resurging Calvinism « Trials, Testing, and Transformation.

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Mar 16 2010

Dave Black on Radical Reconciliation

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 11:31 pm

3:37 PM One of the tribes I hope against hope to be able to revisit either now or in July are the warlike Gujis who live next to the Burjis. Since my preaching tour in Gujiland a couple of years ago I’ve developed an even greater appreciation for Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and His teachings about peace-making, love of enemy, and kingdom ethics. I say this as one who formerly sympathized with the religious right and its false gospel of neoconservative ideology. (Phyllis Schafly once said, “The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by God.” At one time I would have found nothing objectionable in her statement.) The Bible I read speaks of radical reconciliation. My evangelical theology assures me that no tribal conflict is beyond the reach of the redemption that is found in Christ Jesus. Please pray that I will be able to revisit this precious tribe whom God loves and for whom His Son died.

Dave Black Online.

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Mar 16 2010

Glenn Beck and Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Which is the Christian Spirit?

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 11:12 pm

Padre Steve has posted several great posts this past week dealing with the Glenn Beck issue. You can find them here:

I ask you to check out a few of those comments here, as they will truly show you what the spirit of Glenn Beck really is about.

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Mar 15 2010

Glenn Beck Operates on God’s Time and Threatens Jim Wallis

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 9:26 pm

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Wallis for all of about 15 minutes – another story for another day – but it seems to me that Beck is really reaching here:

So Jim, I just wanted to pass this on to you. In my time I will respond — my time, well, kind of like God’s time, might be a day, might be a week to you, I’m not sure. But I’m going to get to it in my time, not your time. So you go ahead and you continue to do your protest thing, and that’s great. I love it. But just know — the hammer is coming, because little do you know, for eight weeks, we’ve been compiling information on you, your cute little organization, and all the other cute little people that are with you. And when the hammer comes, it’s going to be hammering hard and all through the night, over and over…

HT - See Jim’s blog here.

Say, Glenn, isn’t the hammer a symbol of communism?

Looks like Beck doesn’t want a conversation about this – he simply doesn’t like being challenged.

Pour it on him.

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Mar 15 2010

Giveaway – Son of Hamas

Category: Other PostsPolycarp @ 8:12 pm

Yes, I am so copying every last bit of this post:

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