Tuesday, October 30, 2007

How do YOU manage Halloween?

Some go out to eat. Others turn off the lights and don't answer the door. Some participate fully just like everyone else. Others do harvest parties as an alternative. Some tell historical accounts of Druids and traditions linked to the occult to try to frighten young people out of misbehaving and adults into not buying into the day mindlessly. Others do counter cult/occult information expose's.

I hope you aren't one who demonizes black cats just because of their color or disses flying bats just because they work 3rd shift! If you give out candy, do you include an age appropriate tract of some sort with a web link for kids to hear the gospel or a tell-a-story gospel phone number? Or do you do the 'hell house' alternative to the 'haunted houses'? No kidding I've seen these advertised!

Did you know it is the eve of all saints day, a reformation holiday? At Purdue tomorrow shortly after noon, a history Ph.D. student will be dressed in authentic Martin Luther garb and doing some exciting reformation affirming readings on the Memorial Mall in the open air while other grad students hand out good theological materials.

So how do you manage the day and resist tooth and cultural decay?

Thursday, October 11, 2007

So sad. He could do so much better...

But alas NT Wright has come up short in his societal critiques and his understanding of evils in our world today. Disappointing.

He seems to have the Jimmy Carter approach of blaming self and the West and Christianity and the UK and the USA first and foremost. This is such a popular exercise for academe-flavored evangelicals these days.

So predictable. So sad. Read it here.