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Alan Wolk, AdWeek; h/t: Ryan Moede
Social networking is changing the marketing landscape: “Brand advertising can’t stretch the truth anymore or try and gild the lily. Because if it does, we’re going to find out about it, find out that you’ve been lying to us all along about extras that don’t work and specials that aren’t special. And our reaction is not going to be pretty.”
Business, Character and Ethics, Science and Technology, Wed 27 Aug 2008
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It is the responsibility of every Christian to carve out a satisfying life under the loving will of God, or else sin will look good.
Dallas Willard
Poor Man’s Earl (Audio): an introduction to Lord Shaftesbury, the great reformer by John Pollock, foreword by Os Guinness.
David Aikman narrates this exclusive Trinity Forum Reading selection that helps us think about the connection between privilege and responsibility.
The Institutionalization of Greed
John Piper explains Why Calvinists are so Negative: This, with the item below from Frederica, offer two timely perspectives on appropriate humility—which could also be approached with profit from the perspective of strategy. “I must tell you that whenever I have had a profound experience of God through reading his word or encountering God in worship or community, it tends to just humble me, and make me want to say something like what Joni Mitchell said about love—‘it’s love’s illusions I recall; I really don’t know love, at all.’ I have barely touched the hem of the Master’s garment, I hardly know him though I long to know him better. In the face of the divine-human encounter, even Barth’s Dogmatics appear to be little more than a good start to understanding God.” (New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III • 2008 11 19)
Confessions of an Obnoxious Orthodox: Salutary. “Most people like to be polite and get along, so they highlight our commonalities. But every church must have its distinctiveness, or we’d all be in the same church. At the time, I was so occupied with comprehending this strange thing called Orthodoxy that I emphasized the differences, and was impatient with kindly big-tent suggestions.” (Frederica Mathewes-Green, Beliefnet • 2008 11 19)
Finding Home: A worthwhile meditation on place: “My parents have moved a lot in their lives, and view towns and cities as places to go for opportunities, not places to live for love of the place itself. They still pressure us occasionally to move closer to them. Maybe someday we will; as I said above, I know I would find things to love wherever we lived. But after all the moves of my childhood, I find myself warmly grateful to this city for being a place where I can send my roots down deep, grateful that I have at last found my home.” (Veronica Mitchell, Toddled Dredge • 2008 11 18)
The Obama Dilemma: “Which of these factions in evangelicalism’s divided house is more reflective of its essential character? In truth, both have a strong claim. Evangelicalism has always been centrally concerned with social reform as the necessary expression of spiritual regeneration. It is not merely a religion of inwardness. Nor is it a religion devoted to maintaining the status quo and propping up social elites. Instead, it challenges settled arrangements and champions the lowly and the marginalized.” (Senior Fellow Wilfred M. McClay, The Wall Street Journal • 2008 11 01)
• Stephen Fry in America (2008 10 10)
• Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death (2008 09 30)
• Give Me That Old-Time Religion (2008 09 29)
• The Real Digital Revolution (2008 08 27)
• Après Lewis (2008 08 15)
Dictionary of Christianity in America by Harry S. Stout, et al.
2600 cross-referenced articles by 430 contributors evenhandedly describe the key institutions, movements, churches, and persons in American religious history.
