Day Tripping at Borders

Hey, remember me? Yes – I’ve been away for awhile – at least from my keyboard and the blog. Hopefully you’ve missed me. After owning the house I have lived in for the last five years I finally decided this would be the summer I’d actually maintain the thing!  The new roof went on two weeks ago; new exterior paint is in process; and today was the day for a full scale assault on the yard, something I have never taken much interest in.  And to think: this is actually the main reason God even created Adam in the first place! He needed a gardner and a landscaper (Genesis 2:5, 15)!  I hope all of these are reasons for you to excuse the lack of activity at the God and Culture Blog.  I think I’m back now, at least until the next cloudless 74 degree day!

After ten hours of manual labor on the yard I rewarded myself with a trip to Borders. Let me allow you in on a little secret.  Some of my best guests on my radio program were ‘discovered’ perusing my local Borders.  I think I just found three more for upcoming programs.

Phillip Gulley is a Quaker pastor in Indiana who also happens to believe in universalism (see his previous book If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person).  The fly leaf of his latest book, Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species, was the hook for me. On it he is quoted as saying something about how since 1950 builders have left the front porch off the house in order to save money and this has been America’s problem ever since.  I’m looking forward to reading this one and possibly inviting Gulley to be a guest.

 Jim Henderson, a pastor, hires Matt Casper, an atheist, to visit with him 12 well-known and not-so-well-known churches, including Rick Warren’s Saddleback and Joel Osteen’s Lakewood and they write about what they liked and didn’t like in Jim & Casper Go to Church: Frank Conversation About Faith, Churches, and Well-meaning Christians. My initial impression of the book was that it was sort of like those guys who travel the country on a mission to visit every major league ball park, which seems fitting since most megachurches in the country now offer nothing but major league entertainment.

Andrew Keen thinks all of us amateur bloggers and the free content on the Internet are destroying the moral fiber of America.  Are there really people out there who are prepared to defend the main stream media against the new media of talk radio and blogging? Keen attempts it in The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture.

Look for these and other interesting topics/interviews on an upcoming issue of The Paul Edwards Program.

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Paul is the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of God and Culture in Detroit, Michigan and Founding and Teaching Pastor at Redeemer Church of Waterford, Michigan.

2 thoughts on “Day Tripping at Borders

  1. Yes indeed, welcome back.
    And Ben, welcome back to you also!
    I trust you had the good sense to enjoy a cup of your favorite java along with the
    hunt.

  2. Hi,
    It’s good to have you back!
    Interesting future topics. I’m especially interested to see how Phillip Gulley justifies the universalism. I always thought that a wrong understanding of God leads to heresies, and I think that this is the case with universalism.

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