Archive for October, 2008
Help for a Reluctant Voter
As a self-professing reluctant voter, I found John Piper’s article Let Christians Vote As Though They Were Not Voting very helpful. Here’s a preview:
Voting is like marrying and crying and laughing and buying. We should do it, but only as if we were not doing it.
Read the whole thing.
Some Fresh Thinking on the Financial Crisis
This is probably the best thing I posted on this blog.
If you’re tired of listening to arguments about which political party is to blame for the “financial crisis”, you may be interested to read Carl Tueman’s analysis:
The markets have failed, and this should (I hope!) give those Christians with a blithe faith in the free [...]
Cynicism and Beauty
I came across the following quote today, in a book I’m reading about preaching. It certainly challenges my deep-rooted cynicism.
Often the cynic offers thick and nuanced description of the swaps [of life]…but has little more that trite of formulaic expressions for beauty. [Christians] must learn to describe something more than sin if they hope to [...]
