Interesting Stuff 18

Posted by Jonathan Brink
June 26, 2008

Scot McKnight takes James Dobson to task for his comments on Obama’s speech.

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Internet Monk contemplates the life of George Carlin who passed this last week.  I still think his “Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television” was pure comic genius and classic.  Internet Monk says,

“What strikes me as continually ironic is that Carlin and other comedians have become the truth-tellers of our time, while Christians, especially in their official capacities as preachers, etc., have become the embodiment of truth avoidance and truth obscuration.”

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Very cool idea called patio parties.  Who said loving your neighbor can’t be fun. (ht)

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Out Of Ur repents?  Sorry, this is a lack of journalistic integrity.

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Josh on bringing spirituality back into the role of pastor, via Eugene Peterson.  Nice.

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This is an infectious song.  Thanks to the guy who doesn’t blog anymore.

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  • Jonathan,
    Apparently Out of Ur is "a blog for pastors engaging today’s culture" so I'm probably not supposed to comment :-) but it sounds a lot like they've folded under pressure from the power of WC. Sad.
  • i honestly hope that 'out of ur' refrains from commenting on anything related to WC in the future.. truly they have no ability to speak into those places now. it would be like fox news reporting on republican party affairs.
  • Re: Obama/Dobson ... I couldn't find it but someone recently noted that politicians and child psychiatrists should both avoid trying to be theologians. Conversely we should strive to not judge them as such - we will typically be disappointed.
  • Rick, it was Jim Wallis at Sojourners.

    http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/06/...
  • yeah i agree jonathan. poor journalism on out of ur's part. i don't read that blog anyway, but i think they did a poor job of reporting everything about reveal.
  • Hey Rick,
    I'm not sure anyone can really avoid being a theologian, and i'm not sure we should try to limit what sort of people get to practice that role. limiting who our preferred theologians are probably short changes us on our image of God.

    my 2¢
  • David - exactly right ... I didn't say it well. Perhaps a better wording is that as we share our theology in word and deed, we should be mindful that we are imperfect in both our understanding and in our ability to communicate. That is, we need to work to take the edge off.

    Conversely, as we evaluate others we should do so with the knowledge (and subsequently the grace) that none of us have achieved perfection yet.
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