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February 16, 2007 Posted by Roger Overton
Dr. Bruce Metzger past away Tuesday. John Piper and Ben Witherington have published reflections. (HT: Between Two Worlds) Dr. Metzger so profoundly influenced New Testament studies that he was certainly among the most important of twentieth century scholars.
Major media has again displayed its utter moral bankruptcy. It's grossly obsessed with the death of Anna Nicole Smith, someone who had basically no influence on our society, and yet it barely flinched at a Muslim who killed 5 people in a Utah mall. The act of terrorism was mostly ignored, and that is a significant reason why we will likely suffer another 9-11 type of attack. Our culture is too deep in celebrating plastic people to notice that it's falling apart.
Dr. Gordon Lewis has written a brief yet substantive letter to Christianity Today responding to Scot McKnight's article on the “Five Streams of the Emerging Church.” (HT: Groothuis)
I'm getting rather sick of the major Republican candidates for President in 2008. Each of them appears strong on one or two important issues, but repugnant when it comes to all the others. While media swarms the guys with make-up, I'm looking into some guys with substance, such as Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul.
Somewhere between funny and disturbing: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor.
Dr. Bruce Edwards, one of the predominant C.S. Lewis scholars of our time, edited a 4 volume work on Lewis due out in April. He'll also be a plenary speaker at what looks to be a great October conference in North Carolina. Anyone interested in meeting me there?
The U.S. Mint released the first of it's Presidential $1 Dollar coins today, bearing the likeness of George Washington. Thankfully, these coins are better looking than the ugly Sacagawea Dollar. It will stimulate more coin collecting, which is good for my job (at a coin shop), but since most Americans prefer paper dollars to coins, I don't think they'll make much difference in the long run. Speaking of coins, I think there should be more coin collectors blogging.
For those of you who play the 24 drinking game, which depends upon Jack yelling “Dammit!”, I don't think this season has been very eventful. Maybe we should change it to a shot for every Bauer family member who betrays Jack and their country.
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- The Link Crusade
- C.S. Lewis and My First Paper
- Another random link list
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- Link-o-vision
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February 17th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
roger, i felt that lewis misread mcknight and responded to lewis' letter here.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Ron Paul 2008!
and as for coins, people should start collecting these http://www.libertydollar.org/
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I can't find any information about Ron Paul except for his speech on the recent waste of time resolution.
Someone actually called the coin shop asking for that liberty dollar today, none of us had heard of it. We assumed he was looking for the presidential dollar
February 24th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Here you go, Roger:
Official House website
Articles since 2001
A few interviews