While I am home recuperating from the flu I’m reading two books that have been in my stack for awhile now: The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ
Best line of the reading so far comes from Driscoll:
“…there is no such thing as Christian community or Christian ministry apart from a rigorous theology of the cross that is practically applied to the lives of real people.”
McCain made Obama the “celebrity candidate” and Obama got angry. He lashed back tonight, a major mistake. The vice-president attacks, but the presidential candidate is above it all. Compare the kind advert that McCain played tonight praising Obama for making history with the red-meat rhetoric Obama used on McCain.
It was beneath Senator Obama and did not elevate him or effectively tear down McCain. I predict that McCain will save his tough rhetoric for terrorists and dismiss Obama gently. Obama should have treated McCain with kindness like a father a bit past his time.
John Mark Reynolds at Scriptorium Daily has a parody of John 1 applied to Lord Barack, Messiah, Savior of the World. Follow the link to read the whole thing, but it begins this way:
1Way, way, way over two years ago, there were many words from Obama about Obama, two books full. And Obama was in the Senate and Obama was the Senator from Illinois. Obama was in the beginning of Obama’s career, and though Obama did nothing in the Senate, Obama’s career was the Senate career the world had been waiting to see.*
2All good speeches were made by Obama, and without Obama no speech was made that was well made. 3In Obama was the Future of the Democrat Party, and the Party Future was the Light of Humankind, but one that was fluorescent and did not cause any warming to the cosmos.