The husband of my church’s interim pastor has long had the habit of emailing lengthy pontifications on random topics to the church’s listserv. Recognizing a blogger when they saw one (and taking pity on the rest of the listserv), Wess and a friend set him up with a blog called Menno-Might. Which somehow makes me think of an Amish farmer singing “Here I am to save the daaaaay!” I think it’s just as well that I’ve stopped watching television.

Lee is blogging a book on Christianity and science called Pascal’s Fire, here, here, and here. It occurred to me during the discussion on this post that historically speaking, Christianity has gotten into as much trouble embracing scientific theories that turned out to be false as it has by rejecting ones that turned out to be true. The whole “sperm are teeny embryos” thing that I mentioned, or the “women are underdeveloped men” thing, and we all know how the Ptolemaic theory of the universe turned out. Seems like a good cautionary point to keep in mind.

I am perhaps too late in noticing this, but Javan at Kingdom Quest is looking for Anabaptist writers.

U2 Sermons is taking ideas for a course on theology, culture and U2 at Fresno Pacific University (which IIRC also has an Anabaptist affiliation), here, here and here. I, of course, provide plenty of opinions.

Mike Duran, whose blog I came across on The Daily Scribe, considers why artists are often messed-up people. I would add that the credit, or blame, for the “tortured artist” concept is often traced back to the 19th-century Romantic movement, which, in massively exalting art and artists, made it a lot more difficult to be one. See here, for instance.

So, the future is in front of you and the past is behind you, right? Well, maybe not.

ETA: Really interesting book review on the faith of the founding fathers.