Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Film Review of the Week
Four Ways to Ruin a Moses Movie, Joe Carter. “In the future, this movie should be taught in film schools to show all the ways a movie based on a Bible story can go wrong.” Strong words for the director who gave us Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator. Based on Carter’s review, you might be better off waiting for the Exodus: God’s and Kings DVD release…if you even watch it at all.
Articles of the Week
Ten Historical Myths about World Christianity, Brian Stanley. Everyone loves a good myth-busting! Another ten items could easily be added to this list, but Stanley has given us a great start. Don’t be snowed by pseudo-history; read on and gird your loins against some of the more egregious myths about Christianity through the ages.
Gospel Clarity vs. “The Fog,” Timothy Tennent. “When you walk into the churches in decline you are immediately brought into ‘the Fog.’ What is the fog? It is the inability to be clear about anything. . . . In the ‘fog,’ Jesus Christ is just one of many noble teachers in the world. In the ‘fog,’ the Bible is filled with contradictions and outdated commands. In the ‘fog,’ the pastor has learned through years of experience to spend 20 to 30 minutes talking, and say absolutely nothing of consequence about anything.”
Five Questions to Ask Before Posting to Social Media, Cara Joyner. There will come a day when I (Chris) tell my grandchildren about what it was like to grow up without Facebook, Twitter, and other social media outlets that don’t even yet exist. Perhaps by that point the helpful wisdom Joyner counsels here will be old news. I sure hope so.
One Sentence Book Reviews, Philip Nation. Not only is this efficient for blog readers far and wide, distilling book reviews down to one line should be required in college courses everywhere. If you can’t express it in a tweet, you don’t know it well enough yet.
On The Lighter Side
Andrew Luck, Ironic Trash Talker, Kevin Clark, Wall Street Journal. Andrew Luck seems to be an amusing chap. When most quarterbacks get sacked, they either complain to the referees or simply stew in silence. A select few will shout back at the defenders. But only one—Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts—sincerely and enthusiastically congratulates his opponent. And it gets in their heads. As one linebacker said, “You love it, but at the same time, you really really hate it.”
Wisdom For Your Weekend is presented to you by Chris Pappalardo, with occasional guidance from J.D. Greear. This is our attempt to reflect Proverbs 9:9, “Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.”
