links for 2008-09-18

September 18th, 2008

Review of Andy Crouch, "Culture Making", on Christianity Today

This looks like a good one to put on the to-read list.

(tags: christianity culture books)
PastorHacks: Preaching in a Postmodern World

How much would sitting in on an extensive course on Preaching in Postmodern World taught by Tim Keller be worth to you?

How about free? Here's the link on iTunes.
Chanequa Walker-Barnes, "My Struggle with New Monasticism"

Another excellent entry into the conversation on new monasticism and race
Step By Step: Jott Your Way To EverNote Bliss

GTD with Jott and Evernote

(tags: jott evernote gtd)
Todd Hiestand » The Challenge of Community in Suburbia » Missional Living in Suburban America

The biggest thing we have to continue to do as suburban Christians is to constantly ask the hard questions and constantly look for solutions / answers to the challenge before us. I think the answers aren’t the same for all times, all people and all places. Some seasons require some answers and other seasons of life demand others.

(tags: missional suburbia)
The Frame: Images from the world

A wealth of compelling news pictures on the Associated Press wire today covering world events as diverse as the economic woes in the financial markets, the recovery from Hurricane Ike, the election campaigns in the United States and more
NextReformation » faith in exile

Len takes a look at Walter Bruggemann's book "Cadences of Home":

In the first chapter of Cadences of Home, Walter Brueggemann suggests six points of connection between the circumstance of exile and scriptural resources. I was particularly struck on this reading of the obvious connection points to the need for missional orders formed around a rule of life.
Who Would Jesus Torture? : Subversive Influence

For me, this is one of the major ethical issues to help me decide how I vote in the upcoming election. The ends never justify the means, not for a moral society which believes itself to be "a Christian nation" (whether or not it truly is such a thing).