Links of the Day, October 6
News Apple quits the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate change legislation. Human trafficking Trafficking in the US is a problem. Miscellaneous Conservatizing the Bible … really?!
Links of the Day, September 3-6
A special weekend edition (since I found time to pop online)! News Obama’s "green jobs" advisor Van Jones resigns after (rather melodramatic, I think) furor from the right over recent comments. See my previous LOTD post for the context and this Huffington Post article on the saga. Also, while we’re at it, why don’t we …
Scripture is inspired; so what?
N.T. Wright: "All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Equipped for every good work; there’s the point. The Bible is breathed out by God …
It's a big book
N.T. Wright: It’s a big book, full of big stories with big characters. They have big ideas (not least about themselves) and make big mistakes. It’s about God and greed and grace; about life, lust, laughter, and loneliness. It’s about birth, beginnings, and betrayal; about siblings, squabbles, and sex; about power and prayer and prison …
Oasis 3-week update
Week Three One of the highlights this week was the trafficking training session put on by the Coalition Against Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) LA, which took place on Wednesday. The focus of the training was ministering to survivors of human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking. As a result, many of the other attendees were workers at …