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Many of you know that I am ordained in the Reformed Church in America. This church body is organized in local congregations led by a consistory (pastors, elders, deacons) which meet monthly. On a quarterly basis, pastors and elder representatives from all the churches in a particular region gather together for classis meetings. The classis [ READ MORE ]
JOS, Nigeria — Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a stick, then stabbed to death with a short knife. The man, Dahiru Adamu, 25, was crouching on the floor in the sprawling police headquarters here, summoned to give an accounting of the terrible night [ READ MORE ]
From the NYT: A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. The new proposals could transform [ READ MORE ]
So much for a “private choice between a woman and her physician.&#[ READ MORE ]
I had the chance to see Avatar right after it came out. It was, without a doubt, a movie with killer visuals and an over the top ideological edge. Marc Driscoll takes my mild critique to a whole other level. What do you think? Lately, Jen and I have been talking about that line between [ READ MORE ]
Minus the “You’re Watching a ‘Caught on Tape’” style voiceover, this is a pretty amazing clip[ READ MORE ]
Watching the drama of Climategate unfold over the last couple weeks, I’ve been thinking about the issue of trust. Most of us are not scientists. We aren’t out in the field collecting data. We’re not in the lab synthesizing our diverse observations and testing our hypotheses. Instead, we watch the news, read articles and books. [ READ MORE ]
