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Scot McKnight says to find the answer, you have to ask another question: What’s your purpose in reading it?  

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…

This looks to be another in a series of Pixar directors moving further away from pure pop and closer to pop art (though Brad Bird kinda skipped over the pure pop stage entirely). But does it bother anyone else that they totally cheated their way to the reveal?   

On election night, a Facebook (and real life!) friend, Brandon, posted a status update to the effect that Americans were naive for voting for Obama. I took issue with Brandon’s remark, which he had first delivered to me over iChat, and it prompted a couple days of discussion and disagreement between us. This was standard…

Sociologist Michael Lindsay (author of Faith in the Halls of Power, one of last year’s best religion books) weighs in on the shifting ground of evangelical influence in the Beltway. 

Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Rediscovering Our Creative Calling is the Christian book of the year–its Publisher’s Weekly nod for best religion book won’t be its last. The concept of “culture” has been something of a snare for American Christians–we’ve critiqued culture and we’ve copied culture, but we’ve not always cultivated viable cultures of our own.  Crouch…

Join me in welcoming two new blogs to Beliefnet: Jesus Creed, crafted by the careful hands of Scot McKnight, and The New Christians, the brainchild of Tony Jones.  Jesus Creed, long one of the web’s most popular religion blogs, is that rarest of breeds: a blog whose community is sensible, reflective, fun, and…dare I say pleasant.…
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