Sauntering through the week …

Along the Taieri Gorge Railway

• To blog or not to blog?: See Reverence for Words: A Case Against Blogging by Stefan McDaniel. Contra McDaniel, Rick Floyd gives us a wonderful defense of blogging. As usual, Rick’s right on the money!
• Obama and the Lama and The Poetry of Autumn by David Bentley Hart
• Gardner Taylor on preaching and pastoral ministry
• Jeremy Begbie on theology through the arts
• Jean Vanier on belonging and bonding and on Christian leadership
• A tribute to Isaiah Berlin and a conversation with Isaiah Berlin
• Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil
• Anglican Episcopal House of Studies at Duke Divinity School recently hosted a conversation by Stanley Hauerwas and David Crabtree on the theme of living faithfully amid the social, political, and financial challenges of our day
• James Merrick on why most modern academic theology is ‘inane and absurb’
• H. Hoogerbrugge on modern living
• Ben Myers has a good round-up of some other stuff from the past week
• And check this out: