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posted by Scot McKnight | 12:02am Saturday September 5, 2009
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Kristie Berglund … beginning to blog … beginning all over again.
Jordon Cooper‘s wise words about writing books.

Dan Reid … ever the editor.
Eugene on “what is a worshipper?”
LL Barkat on serendipity ripples.
John Frye on expectations and Jesus: Part one and two.
Ed Gilbreath on President Obama’s upcoming speech to our kids.
Tom Smith weighs in on serious issues in South Africa when it comes to churches.
“Where We Stand” on gospel and development work.
Brett weighs in on Christian cussing.
Quite the debate: Should public schools teach religion(s)? One of the great things about free speech is that folks can complain about President Obama’s speech before they’ve seen the thing.
Jim Martin interviews Darryl Tippens, author of Pilgrim Heart (a very good book we blogged about on this site). Part one, two, three and four.
Mark Roberts, a theology of work, and Ezra.

The Top Five most liberal products.

Robert Benne’s final line in his long article on the ELCA: “The ELCA has formally left the Great Tradition for liberal Protestantism.”
News item that boggles:

“But can anyone seriously question that we are imposing an ever-increasing and unfair burden [indebtedness] on the children who might be ill-equipped to bear the cost?

Well, yes. There is a good, simple reason for taking a more selfish view of the cost our present debt imposes on future Americans: All else being equal, those future Americans will be leading better, easier, richer lives. So just as there are good arguments for imposing costs on the present-day rich for the benefit of the present-day poor, there are good arguments for imposing costs on America’s wealthy future for the sake of its relatively impoverished present.”


What this shows me is that we need a good set of posts on economics, and Michael Kruse will be doing just that on the Jesus Creed Blog.

Keillor.jpg1. A very good question with more than a few, not very satisfying, answers.
2. The temperature of hell and global warming — Warning: satire. (HT: SW)
3. Pope Benedict and Teddy Kennedy.
4. Wow, this is quite the story about correlation of tax laws and senior deaths. (HT: MV via Twitter)
5. AT&T, iPhone, and the coming changes.
6. An interesting trend: “Yet Hoene says cities must use the crisis as a way to rethink how city
services are provided, which includes privatization, partnerships
between the public and private sectors, and more involvement with
nonprofits and citizens.”
7. As always, Garrison Keillor gets to the vacuous center of the issue: a pet care option attached to the health care reform proposals.
8. Kristof: “The truth is that government, for all its flaws, manages to do some things right, so that today few people doubt the wisdom of public police or firefighters. And the government has a particularly good record in medical care.”
9. George Will: “If there is a worse use of the U.S. military than “nation-building,” it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples’ politicians.”
10. Phoenix commotion.

The most exciting athlete in all of Sports
Devin Hester
Chicago Bears

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Jeremy White

posted September 5, 2009 at 1:30 am


With all due respect to Hester, as a jealous Broncos fan I believe Chicago’s most exciting player has taken a back seat to a certain Jay Cutler… :) I hate the Bears even MORE now (with that innocent sports fan sort of hatred, of course!)



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RJS

posted September 5, 2009 at 7:33 am


Scot,
The line about Michael Kruse and posts on economics is part of the blockquote of the Slate article. But do you mean that he will be contributing to Jesus Creed?
If so I await with bated breath – It will be good.



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Scot McKnight

posted September 5, 2009 at 7:41 am


RJS, I did want it to be a response to the Slate piece, but keeping it in the block format could confuse, so I brought it back out to the margin. Thanks.



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Diane

posted September 5, 2009 at 11:37 am


I liked the piece about Christian cussing and in a bit of serendipity (thanks L.L. Barkat) I just posted a blog entry on the topic at http://emergingquaker.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-profanity-demonic.html in the context of Dorothy Day.



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Bob M

posted September 5, 2009 at 1:33 pm


Kristof’s op-ed is a bit misleading, IMHO. The reason why public fire and police departments work as well as they do is that they’re NOT federalized. They’re local, which means they’re more accountable to the public/consumer. I shudder to think what police and fire services would be like if they were truly federalized.
As I said to a friend recently, I think state-run healthcare with federally mandated portability would be a better idea than a fully federalized system. Accountability to voters would be much stronger. However, this kind of program would take the power away from the Washington establishment, which means it’ll never happen.



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Brad V.W.

posted September 5, 2009 at 1:41 pm


With all due respect to Hester, I think your Chicago bias might be showing a wee bit. I mean he’s fast but he’s not as fast as a “bolt” of lightning.



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