Tag Archives: Jesus Christ
Youth Football & Collisions: Really, Really, Really Bad News
ESPN just released this frightening data from the first study of youth football and the impact of head-to-head collisions: The first-ever study to measure the head impacts among youth football players has found that some hits absorbed by second graders … Continue reading
Jeremy Lin, The Basketball Star Nobody Wanted: A Gospel Coalition Essay
Just had a new theological essay posted over at the Gospel Coalition. It’s entitled “The Basketball Star No One Wanted: Jeremy Lin’s Unlikely Triumph.” In it, I weave in my own experience with the game as I talk about what … Continue reading
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Linsanity! Part 2: Ex-Ruff Ryders Rapping & Asian-American Christianity
More Linsanity! Last night Jeremy Lin led the Knicks to a stunning victory over the Lakers–featuring the NBA’s second-best player, Kobe Bryant–and Lin scored 38 points (!). I don’t know if you care about sports, but that is truly astonishing. This … Continue reading
Filed under basketball, hip hop
Should You Pay Your Kids to Tweet? On Social Media Addiction
A couple of days back, Jon Acuff–laugh-out-loud writer and author of Stuff Christians Like–wrote a post on how to manage social media use as a father. Acuff wrote the post in a whimsical style but ended up recommending that dads … Continue reading
Filed under manhood, social media
Things You Should Listen to: The Reformed Forum Podcast
Do you know about the Reformed Forum? You should. It’s great. It’s a podcast done by some really good guys affiliated with Westminster Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). Here’s the brief description: Reformed Forum is a … Continue reading
Things You Should Go To: The 9Marks Weekender
I don’t know if you’ve heard about these, but if you’re interested in entering a full-blown “church lab,” a program that will allow you to savor God’s work to reform one local church–Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D. C.–then … Continue reading
Filed under church internships, church life
What a Young Husband Ought to Know
Interesting post from First Things on an old book about what young husbands should know (What a Young Husband Ought to Know (1897, link has free ebook thanks to Scott Lamb) by Lutheran pastor Sylvanus Stall). Here’s a bit of … Continue reading
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Shai Linne & Fellow Artists Ask: Should Rappers Serve Churches?
This discussion from a bunch of gifted Lampmode artists like Shai Linne (a fellow Capitol Hill Baptist Church intern!) and Stephen the Levite about the state of Christian rap is quite interesting and entertaining. Stephen the Levite, the dude with … Continue reading
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The Salon Writer Who Fell in Love with Joel Osteen’s Megachurch
This is one of the more unexpected pieces I’ve come across in a while. A woman journalist who writes for Salon and other leading publications, secular-minded and skeptically oriented, found herself in Houston and started attending Lakewood Church. For those … Continue reading
Filed under church life, evangelism
