http://blog.followingchrist.org The (Un)official Blog of Following Christ 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:10:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Summer 2008 issue of Leadership features an article by Following Christ 2008 track chair Amy Black. "The Church and Politics Quiz" allows you to answer a series of questions which will let you know whether you're a thumpin' theocrat, a private patriot, a quiet critic, or a radical reformer ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/how-do-your-faith-and-politics-mix-take-the-quiz/ Several week ago I mentioned that I would be reviewing Stephen Mansfield's The Faith of Barack Obama. I decided to publish this post during the week of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. So, here it is. Thanks to Michael Hyatt of Thomas Nelson for the opportunity to see a ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/the-faith-of-barack-obama/ Merlin Mann at 43folders has an interesting post about The Planning Fallacy. I hear you asking, what is the planning fallacy? You know what it is. It is that internal bias that causes you to, say, think that it will take you three years to write your dissertation. Reality...we're talking ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/getting-that-dissertation-done-on-time/ Today is the official publication date of Steven Mansfield's book, The Faith of Barack Obama. I'll be reviewing the book in the next week or so, once I get my copy from Thomas Nelson. Faith is playing a role in election 2008, but not in the ways it ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/read-it-here-first-folks-the-faith-of-barack-obama-by-steven-mansfield/ The following is cross-posted from John Terrill's blog, Apprentice Place. John is Associate Director of InterVarsity's Following Christ 2008 conference and Director of Seattle Pacific University's Center for Integrity in Business. Read more about John here. I've become increasingly concerned about the well being of our planet. I wish ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/john-terrill-is-being-green-always-so-clean/ I'm a big fan of Steven Pressfield's little book The War of Art. I know there are a bunch of people reading this blog who write for a living, from pastors to doctoral students. Here are ten reasons that you absolutely must get this book and read it. You have a ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/writers-three-reasons-you-must-read-the-war-of-art/ I've posted before on emerging trends in reading. Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed links to a New York Times dealing with the same topic. As I've noted before, Americans aren't reading less. If anything, we're reading more. Only, we're not reading books. The National Endowment for the Arts reports that ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/a-nation-of-semi-literate-technicians/ We've delved a little into politics here at Flourishing. I wrote about James Dobson's sort of unfair words about Barack Obama and his view of the Bible. We talked a little bit about the Jesus for President tour. In the future we might talk about some more political topics as ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/letterman-top-ten-reasons-obama-is-over-confident/ C S Lewis has an interesting article by the title, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" in his volume God in the Dock (1979). The central argument of the piece is: "...[W]hen we cease to consider what the criminal deserves and consider only what will cure him or deter others, we have ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/what-to-do-with-radovan-karadzic/ We're among friends here, so we can share a laugh about life as grad students...can't we? Thanks to the folks in computer science over at the University of Maryland - Baltimore for this list. They had a longer list, but I redacted it down to my favorite ten (so you ... http://blog.followingchrist.org/2008/ten-ways-to-tell-that-youre-a-grad-student/