Archive for January, 2008

Google Fun – and a warning!

Go to Google.
- Type in “find chuck norris”.
- Click the “I’m feeling lucky” button.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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Tim Challies on the Church

Tim Challies delivers this post of reflections on his readings of those who claim to know how to fix the church. “The standard book,” he says, “begins with a few chapters outlining all the ways the church has failed with the rest of the book providing the solution. If only we did this or [...]

An interview with Tim Keller

I’m really looking forward to Keller’s new book. As a speaker, Keller is a rare combination of calm, rational and very interesting. In the book The Reason for God: Belief in and Age of Skepticism he offers a response to any belief systems skeptical of Christianity.
Here is a short interview with Keller by [...]

Michael Spencer on “Steve Brown Etc.”

I’m not quite sure I like Steve Brown yet, but what a great voice. Here he interviews “post-evangelical” Michael Spencer (The Internet Monk).  I do like Spencer.  He represents my own combination of conservative theology mixed with a appreciation for Thomas Merton and  both a critical and positive view of Emerging Church ideas.
Have a listen.
Michael [...]

Seen and Heard (Jan 23, 2008)

CT reviews McLaren’s latest book “Everything Must Change”
From the Tim Challies archives, a post on “Excessive Reading”
Have you seen “No Country for Old Men”? What did you think?
Andy Stanley is into a series on the ten commandments.  Here is part one.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who [...]

Links Relating to Atheism

Time: “God vs. Science: Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins”
Newsweek: “The God Debate: Rick Warren vs. Sam Harris”
Christianity Today: “Is Christianity Good for the World? Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson”
Here are some reviews:
“Darwin, Mind and Meaning: Review of Daniel Dennett’s Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” by Alvin Plantinga
“The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum: Review of Richard Dawkins’s [...]

Emerging / Emergent Roundup for January 2008

I plan on doing a lot of reading and writing about the Emerging Church this year. It seems there has been an ubundance of posts about that topic recently on the blogs that I read:
Andrew Jones looks at the rather ancient origins of the term “Emergent” and while he’s at it, takes a lot at the [...]

The Music Industry’s Last Stand Will Be A Music Tax

By Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch
Comments:
I fail to see the error of this idea – IF there is a future in selling recorded music, this is the way it will happen.  Eventually the CD will die and everyone will know how to download music for “free”.
The economics for the artist will work out like this:
1. [...]

Tattoo

Here is one of the two I’d like to get:

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Atheism, Humanism, Death… and Other Light Topics

Michael ( at Atheistperspective.com ) and I have an ongoing conversation in the comments section of my post “Overchurched” that I thought would make a decent post in themselves. I really enjoy these conversations with Michael, I hope you enjoy the vicarious involvement:
Michael (the atheist) asks: Okay, let’s say I agree with your initial assertion; [...]