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Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up is the most fun weekend reading I’ve done in a long time. Pensive yet page-turning. Three moments I’ll remember: 1. While studying Wittgenstein in college–which Martin was paying for by doing standup comedy–Martin was wrestling with whether to be a stage performer or an academic philosopher. He soon makes a discovery:…

A curiosity I noted over my cereal flakes this morning: Michael Spencer (the Internet Monk) linked this week to a year-old article by the New Yorker’s George Packer about the Creation Museum. In his summary of the article, Spencer says of the Creation Museum,  Friends who have been there tell me it is less a…

Without further ado, here is the promised essay by Glenn Paauw on International Bible Society’s additives-free Bible. I must say, I’m rather fond of the deck: Bible literacy is lower than ever. Who’s to blame? Try Bible publishers. Read it all.

Paul Asay put together a cast of characters for an imaginary “Genesis: The Movie,” with suggested celebrities to fill the roles. My favorite moment: She has no lines. She has no name. Lot’s wife is famous for one thing: turning into a pillar of salt when she took one last glance at the doomed cities…
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