New Video and News of the Week
Paging Hezbollah. Book of Common Prayer. Trump Assassination Attempt # 2. Flying to Toronto.
This Week
This week was filled with lecturing on Romans 9-11 and getting ready for a trip to Toronto. I leave Friday!
New Video
My review of the new printing of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (Pew Edition) from InterVarsity Press. I talk about why it's a glossy new edition and how the BCP led him me Anglicanism.
News of the World this Week
Trump Assassination Attempt Take 2. Why is the media so blase about the second Trump assassination attempt? If Trump is the one who is going to herald an era of political violence, then why has he become the primary victim of it from the political left? I don’t want him to win, but I don’t want him to die either.
Beware of Cheap Pagers on the Black Market. The pagers targeted in the attack on Hezbollah were reportedly made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo sub-licensed to a company in Europe.
Megan Basham’s theology is compromised and her history misguided. “Basham has made the mistake of thinking that the contemporary Republican Party’s positions on immigration, race, and climate change are grounded in scripture, but she makes almost no effort to prove it. Instead, aside from a few brief verses used as chapter headings and as calls to action in the conclusion, Basham’s book is almost entirely devoid of scripture, and it does not present any theological arguments in favor of its position. Basham seems completely unconcerned by the fact that on nearly every issue she presents, her own views are directly opposed to the positions of most Christian leaders in the United States, including Catholic bishops, leading evangelical theologians, and other Christian thought leaders outside of partisan conservative circles.”
What it takes to plant churches in Europe. “Part of the problem, according to Paas, is that the things that attract people to new churches, like great music, dynamic preaching, and a sense of real passion about something happening, don’t translate into deeper discipleship. People don’t get more involved or committed, and when the church stops being new or exciting, they fade away.”
Audio commentary below!