Maddy Curtis

Here's a good blog post...with a nice little YouTube video about an American Idol contestant.

http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2010/01/maddy-curtis-a-bright-light-in-the-bright-lights

Death-opoly

"I pity satirists who might be tempted to try to tweak these segments of the evangelical world. Theirs is a mission impossible. It can no longer be done. No matter how indelicately they might exaggerate, no matter how much they might embellish to make a point, no matter how many descriptions they might offer of the tasteless things that are happening, it will most likely be met with only a yawn and a bored question: 'So...?' Nothing seems improbable. None of it, in fact, ever seems exaggerated and none of it seems improper. It has now become impossible to insult some evangelicals." (David Wells, The Courage to Be Protestant, p 24)

I know I've posted this quote before...but, it seemed appropriate in response to the mailing (pictured above) that I received from World Vision today. I've never seen the words "all-new, fun-packed Famine game" strung together until this evening...

Responsible theologians

This very seminary-ish quote hit me in the right spot tonight:

"Responsible theologians ought to order their teaching by the gospel, and also to ensure that whatever else their theologies may contain, the reader can see what the essence of the gospel is. The failure to make the subject of the gospel explicit in some theologies means that the reader may not know in the end what the heart of the Christian message is. It is by an exposition of the gospel that the theologian earns the right to proceed, since the gospel is the most significant revelation of all."
- Peter Jensen, The Revelation of God