That’s not how we typically think of it, but it’s as true as the day you were born. Paul Tripp talks about his new book, What Did You Expect?.
Paul Tripp- What makes “What Did You Expect?” different than other marriage books from Crossway on Vimeo.
Exposing Big Education
I guess this is video day here. I have a couple to share. This one is a trailer for a documentary about the enslavement of big education. Blogger Erin O’Connor consulted on this film. I hope I’ll be able to see it.
It’s shocking what liberal and big government types are doing to American children. They are wasting the time and money of millions of us.
Passover greetings
I don’t know what church did this, but apparently it’s in Texas, and this clip is pretty cool.
To our Jewish friends (we have at least one), greetings and best wishes.
Tip: Moe Lane at Red State, by way of Wizbang.
DVD Review: Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
I finally broke down and joined Netflix a while back, and am taking the opportunity to catch up on some Viking (and Viking-related) films I haven’t seen before. This weekend I watched the European made-for-TV movie, Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. As I understand it, it was originally broadcast in longer form, as a two-parter, so this American version is missing some material.
I found it a somewhat enjoyable, correspondingly frustrating film. In a nutshell, the production values were excellent, and some of the acting was good. Unfortunately, in a strange dramatic inverted pyramid, the better the actor, the smaller (in general) was their part. Continue reading DVD Review: Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
Pray for the Russians
Remember how you felt after September 11? Remember how you prayed for people you would never know? Let’s recall something of that motivation and pray for the people of Moscow.
The Words of 2000 A.D.
Merriam-Webster has a list of ten word what define our decade, that is, the decade what just passed us by. I believe these words were looked up the most through the dictionaries services.
1. rogue (uncontrollable)
2. locavore (one who eats local food)
3. integrity (moral wholeness)
4. staycation (at home while out of the office)
5. partisan (I’m too angry to define it)
6. Google (search)
7. insurgent (“to rise up”)
8. bailout (see partisan)
9. Pandemic (broader than an epidemic disease)
10. Carbon footprint (farting)
By slight contrast, here’s their list of words from the 90s.
Fighting for Purity
The Anchoress talks about the scandal, if that’s the right word for it, in the news over abuse in the Roman Catholic church. She states:
Pope Benedict has taken ownership and control over a heavy burden that his predecessor was too ill to manage. As detailed in this piece by John Allen, Benedict’s time-lapsed clarity on this issue has inspired him to do passionate and done profound work, in order to bring the church to repentance for these sins. I’ll never forget one of his earliest speeches as pope, when he vowed to rid the church if “the filth.” He has taken resignations from bishops, presided over substantial and enforced reforms and has personally met and ministered to the victims, who need not only validation, not only justice, but also the healing ministry of a shepherd who loves his flock.
Between the Pages: Bookselling
The invaluable Roy Jacobsen has a daughter bookselling and blogging now. Her name is Patricia Schnase, and here’s a post of her tips for a more pleasant experience for everyone at the local bookstore.
God's Battalions, by Rodney Stark
Sad to say, it is no surprise that the massacre of Antioch is barely reported in many recent Western histories of the Crusades. Steven Runciman gave it eight lines, Hans Eberhard Mayer gave it one, and Christopher Tyerman, who devoted several pages to lurid details of the massacre of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, dismissed the massacre of Antioch in four words. Karen Armstrong devoted twelve words to reporting this massacre, which she then blamed on the crusaders since it was their dire threat that had created a “new Islam” with a “desperate determination to survive.” Armstrong also noted that because Baibars [the Mamluk commander] was a patron of the arts, he “was not simply a destroyer . . . [but also] a great builder.”
This excerpt from page 232 of Rodney Stark’s God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
He identifies four great lies that have become common wisdom in recent decades, all of which (he insists) are demonstrably false: Continue reading God's Battalions, by Rodney Stark
Dvorak's Slavonic Dances #7
This is not the melody from Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances