{"id":87,"date":"2007-06-09T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T02:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/09\/day-tripping-at-borders\/"},"modified":"2007-06-09T22:18:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T02:18:15","slug":"day-tripping-at-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/day-tripping-at-borders","title":{"rendered":"Day Tripping at Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, remember me? Yes – I’ve been away for awhile – at least from my keyboard and the blog.\u00a0Hopefully 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!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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)!\u00a0 I hope all of these are reasons for you to excuse the lack of activity at the God and Culture Blog.\u00a0 I think I’m back now, at least until the next cloudless 74 degree day!<\/p>\n

After ten hours of manual labor on the yard I rewarded myself with a trip to Borders.\u00a0Let me allow you in on a little secret.\u00a0 Some of my best guests on my radio program were ‘discovered’ perusing my local Borders.\u00a0 I think I just found three more for upcoming programs.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>).\u00a0 The fly leaf of his latest book, Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species<\/a>, 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.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to reading this one and possibly inviting Gulley to be a guest.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jim Henderson, a pastor, hires Matt Casper, an atheist, to visit with him\u00a012 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<\/a>. My initial impression of the book was that it was sort of like those guys who travel the country on\u00a0a mission to visit every major league ball park, which seems fitting since most megachurches in the country now offer nothing but major league entertainment.<\/p>\n

Andrew Keen thinks all of us amateur bloggers and the free content on the Internet\u00a0are destroying the moral fiber of America.\u00a0 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Look for these and other interesting topics\/interviews on an upcoming issue of The Paul Edwards Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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