Eternity News | August 24th, 2013 12:11 PM
A piece by Matthew Barrett on The Gospel Coalition lamenting the use of tablets by Pastors has been doing the rounds, but it’s met its match in Mike Bird’s parody “Dear Presbyter, Bring Your Scroll to Church”. What do you think? Should tablets be avoided? Or are they just another form of technology that can be used for good or bad?
8 Ways to stop going to church without anyone noticing – Fervr
A provocative look at how easy it is to give up meeting together (Hebrews 10:24-25).
Refugee of another kind – CJBAILEE
“I have spent more time than I care to remember in basements, brothels and the dim lit back rooms of shop fronts.” The remarkable story of a Canadian woman whose father sold her into a child prostitution and pedophile ring when she was nine-years-old. When she was 20 she came to Australia to seek asylum, but was rejected, until Melinda Tankard Reist worked on her behalf through a Senator to have her granted refugee status in 2000. She’d not been reunited with Tankard Reist until this year, via World Vision’s Tim Costello. Read the full story here.
Christians and the myth of the “hookup culture” – Religion News Service
Jonathan Merritt of the Religion News Service believes that society is NOT getting more promiscuous.
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