Vox Apologia Results

Phil Steiger at Every Thought Captive has posted the results of the first Vox Apologia, a collection of articles by faith bloggers on a particular apologetics topic. The topic for this round was “What does apologetics mean to today’s Christian church?” It’s well worth spending the time read all the articles. (If you haven’t yet read my entry, you can find it here.) I found “How Apologetics Benefits Believers” at Wittenberg Gate, “Apologetics? What’s that?” at Brain Shavings, and “Purpose Driven Apologetics” at Revenge of Mr Dumpling especially interesting.

EO Blog Symposium Results

the evangelical outpost has posted the results of their first quarterly Blog Symposium. The topic was an article by David Gelernter which claimed that Americanism is actually a religion which has descended directly from Puritanism. He then went on to draw conclusions about Anti-Americanism based on this premise. (The original article about the symposium can be found here.) I haven’t read all the articles yet (there are 67 of them!), but the few that I have read have been fantastic; and they weren’t even the winners!

(A note for Those Who Care: Joe’s articles on blogging plus this symposium were the final catalysts to start this blog. I had intended to also write an article for the symposium. However, by the time I was able to launch The Greatest Pursuits, it was three hours until the entry deadline and I was totally fried. Thanks for the push over the edge, Joe!)

Gain Discernment in Five Easy Steps

Tim Challies has written yet another excellent article: “Gain Discernment In Five Easy Steps”

I am a subscriber to the Reformed Baptist Discussion List and yesterday a member of the list asked an interesting question. He is a pastor and a member of his congregation asked him how he could become a more critical thinker. The pastor pressed him a little and essentially the man was asking how he could gain the discernment he has seen in some other believers where they are able to know right from wrong, biblical from unbiblical at the early stages of contradicting the will of God. I thought I would provide some thoughts as response to that question.

Highly Recommended!