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POPSTorah Borntrager on "how I escaped the Amish" A young woman who was raised Amish, but who left the community at age 15, tells her story. This is an interview by Tim Ferris (the time-management guru) -- not what I expected to see at his blog at all, but I assume it's genuine.
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POPSPassion Fest 2008, Pottstown, PA (July 19) I'm seriously thinking about going to this. Out of curiousity, really. My understanding is that it has a heavily evangelical, proselytizing flavor, but that isn't really indicated by the website.
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POPSRembrandt's two renderings of the Binding of Isaac The first one is the one Rembrandt did late in his life, and it's arguably a much superior piece of art. In the early one, the image is violent and dynamic, in the later one, it's much quieter -- characterized by a sense of mourning and consolation.
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POPSReflections on James Dobson, child-rearing, and U.S. political discourse For some time, Dr. Dobson has been known for his insistence that a key component of parents' responsibility is the inflicting of controlled violence on their children in order to make them obedient, virtuous, and "God-fearing." Here a blogger considers links between Dobson's typical language of war, as pertinent to child-rearing, marriage and homosexuality, and foreign policy.
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POPSNew blog on religion in american history A pretty diverse bunch of academics blogging on religious themes in American history from a variety of perspectives. Worth checking out. The clip is just a taste of the type of material covered.
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POPSPhotos of American churches These are kind of funny -- particularly the odd and whimsical titles -- but also beautiful. There are several pages of these photos.
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POPSDoing it and doing it and doing it well -- for God "The 30-Day Sex Challenge: Are You Up For It?" asks Paul Wirth, the pastor of Relevant Church in Tampa Bay, FL. Married couples are supposed to have sex daily for 30 days, while unmarried people are supposed to abstain completely.
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POPSAbraham Lincoln on religion Two lesser-known pieces of writing from Lincoln that give some hints about his religious beliefs. Lincoln was notoriously cagey about his religious commitments -- he never attended church regluarly, nor did he ever make a public proclamation of faith.
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POPSJesus's Christmas letter Found this on an evangelical website. At first, I have to admit, I thought it was a parody, but I don't think it is. Incidentally, the "X" in "X-mas" is a chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christos. Early Christians used the Chi-Rho (which looks like an X and a P superimposed on one another, also known as "the monogram of Christ") as a symbol for Christ, and the so-called "Jesus fish" is based on the acronym iota-chi-theta-upsion-sigma (for "Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter," or "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior").
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POPSHip accessories for the Purity Ball set The image I wanted didn't clip. It was a sign that read: "NO TRESPASSING ON THIS PROPERTY. MY FATHER IS WATCHING." The "property" in question being a young girl's private parts, presumably. Anyone else find this kind of thing weird?
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POPSChristianity Today interviews Lamin Sanneh (2003) Lamin Sanneh was raised in a scholarly, noble Muslim family in Gambia. As a young adult, he converted to Christianity, although Western Christians first treated him with suspicion. He now teaches at Yale Divinity School.
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POPSCritique of religious-studies public school curriculum Critical response to a seminar on teaching with the theme "Religion in American History," from a conservative Christian perspective (from EdWatch.org). For the record, I think the critique is misguided, but it's still an important one.
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POPSBrowsable Greek New Testament Handy resource for anyone who wants to browse the Greek NT online (front: http://snipr.com/1sy0o). It's quick, simple, and there seem to be some good reference tools built in. It's built with GIF images for text (apparently one image per word), which is strange and prevents any copy-pasting. It is also about to be taken offline, but it looks like it will probably be hosted somewhere else (http://www.kimmitt.co.uk/gnt/gnt.html) thereafter.
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