It’s May, friends. The vikings are in season.
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Tweeting
I’ve begun to microblog and tweet here. I’m already cranky.
Secular Praise in 'End of Secularism' Interview
Hunter Baker gives the full details behind his interview with Harvard Political Review. “Somewhat to my chagrin,” he says, “it is primarily about how great secularism is with a couple of statements by me and Herb London, president of the Hudson Institute, suggesting the self-congratulation is not warranted.”
Who Do You Follow on Twitter, If Anyone?
Rachel Deahl of PW writes about who is influential on Twitter. She notes, “One firm fact of the publishing Twittersphere is that it’s a meritocracy. CEOs and editorial assistants—if they’re skilled (and frequent) tweeters—can draw equal crowds.”
Rados, who was named repeatedly as someone who ‘gets’ Twitter, said she believes the social networking site can sell books. ‘An author can tweet about their life, their process, start a conversation about their characters, and those readers who feel a connection will most likely buy a book. I know I do,’ she said. Rados then elaborated with an example, pointing to Jen Lancaster, author of My Fair Lazy, who she follows. The day Lancaster’s new book came out, Rados said she bought it, in hardback.
I’d think blogs can do that too, but one does have to be where the people are. I’ve thought about tweeting a bit, microblogging as it were. I’m not sure it’s for me though. I don’t even have a smart phone or a personal laptop, so why should I try to get involved in the Twitterverse?
Net Radio Interivew with Larry Crab
On Monday, May 17th (at 9:30pm EST), T. M. Moore and Jimmy Davis will interview Dr. Larry Crabb live on the Worldview Network internet radio program.
What the Source?
Ask not what you believe to be, but only what if. Tim Challies has a humorous list of quotes, asking us to decide whether they came from fortune cookies or Joel Osteen, the beloved author of Your Best Life Now and It’s Your Time For example, where does this statement come from: “Do all you can to make your dreams come true”?
Five Responses to Fairy Tales
Travis Prinzi writes about Tolkien making the reader his fairy tale in The Hobbit. “At this point,” Prinzi says, “about 2/3 of the way into the book, Tolkien makes a very deliberate story transition: ‘…we are now drawing near the end of the eastward journey and coming to the last and greatest adventure, so we must hurry on’ (end of chapter 9, ‘Barrels out of Bond’).” What happens next is curious.
Idolators
“Don’t trust or admire a man who’s passionate in his convictions about culture but passive in his convictions about Scripture.” – A Jared Wilson Tweet (via SD Smith)
ESV Now Online
The English Standard Version of the Holy Bible is now fully online.
Free access to the ESV Online is now available by signing up at www.esvonline.org. Users are able to customize their own interface, highlight and mark verse numbers, add bookmark ribbons, search the ESV text, and manage personal notes. The free version also includes a variety of daily reading plans and devotional calendars.
P.D. James on Detective Fiction
Author P.D. James has a book about detective fiction with an excerpt here. She writes:
And why murder? The central mystery of a detective story need not indeed involve a violent death, but murder remains the unique crime and it carries an atavistic weight of repugnance, fascination and fear. Readers are likely to remain more interested in which of Aunt Ellie’s heirs laced her nightly cocoa with arsenic than in who stole her diamond necklace while she was safely holidaying in Bournemouth. Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night doesn’t contain a murder, although there is an attempt at one, and the death at the heart of Frances Fyfield’s Blood from Stone is a spectacular and mysterious suicide. But, except in those novels of espionage which are primarily concerned with treachery, it remains rare for the central crime in an orthodox mystery to be other than the ultimate crime for which no human reparation can ever be made.