Flotsam and jetsam (9/7)

Good Reads

• A Movement of “Courageous” Culture-Making Churches? I’m not a big fan of Christian movies. But, Timothy Dalrymple offers an interesting piece on churches who produce films and why it’s important for churches to be involved in culture-making.

• The Mechanic Muse: From Scroll to Screen. An interesting piece from NYT on what happens when the technology of book production changes from scroll, to codes, to digital books. (HT Tim Challies)

• Postmodernism: Still Alive, Still Prophetic. Kyle Roberts argues that not only is postmodernism not dead as many have proclaimed, but evangelicals can still learn something from postmodern thought.

• Who Reigns in the Millennial Kingdom? Bill Mounce wrestles with Rev. 20:4 and calls on exegetes to recognize that sometimes language is more ambiguous than we’d like.

• “A Softening of Religiosity” in America. Are Americans getting more or less religious? As with many questions, coming up with a good answer is harder than it appears.

• Deal of the Day: The Kindle version of David VanDrunen’s Living in God’s Two Kingdoms is on sale for $3.
• Credo Magazine is giving away a copy of Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith.
• Kevin DeYoung offers a free resource on Reasons for the ESV.

• Here’s another deleted scene from The Empire Strikes Back.
• “And, no one will ever mention it again under penalty of torture”: 21 forgotten TV subplots. Best thing I’ve read all day.

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