Best Blonde Joke Ever

I tend to stay away from blonde jokes, for the same reason I stay away from “pollock” jokes.  However, jokes about stupid people jokes are really funny, if only we could suck out the pejorative.  So call [this](http://brandywinebooks.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_brandywinebooks_archive.html#113708696234580261) a “stupid person” joke and we’ll all be fine.

It’s still pretty funny.

Phillip Johnson is Funny

Phil Johnson has decided to finally take up the debate on cessationism, with characteristic results: He was already well-known, and then he started making outrageous statements which go against the grain of readers who apparently read him for the benefit of being offended. For some reason, he seems to find this frustrating.

At any rate, he’s made several statements that are amusing to me (though probably infuriating and heart-rending for people with a disposition like my mom’s): Continue reading “Phillip Johnson is Funny”

Nice

Via [William Dembski](http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/652)

All the fuss causes the critically minded to speculate if it’s for the sake of the children or rather about something else the hypertolerant malcontents themselves do not want to confront. A child not belonging to the Christian faith is not going to necessarily pick up on any Christian motifs Lewis might have incorporated into the text.

To pick up on any parallels, one would already have to be familiar with Christian doctrine. Thus to be offended by Aslan as a perceived Christ-figure is to have a problem with an intellect more formidable than even that of C.S. Lewis, namely God Himself.

This explains a lot of things

About halfway through my junior year I told Valerie I was thinking about switching to a math major.  She threatened me with bodily harm.  That thing about journalism is a lie though, a filthy lie!  (Unless you count blogging…)

You scored as English. You should be an English major! Your passion lies in writing and expressing yourself creatively, and you hate it when you are inhibited from doing so. Pursue that interest of yours!

English
92%
Mathematics
92%
Journalism
92%
Engineering
83%
Dance
75%
Psychology
75%
Linguistics
67%
Sociology
58%
Anthropology
58%
Philosophy
58%
Theater
50%
Biology
50%
Chemistry
42%
Art
25%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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Hat tip: [Reasons Why](http://www.reasonswhy.org/mt/weblog1/archives/2006/01/my_perfect_major.html)

Finding a Church

[Philthreeten](http://philthreeten.blogspot.com/2006/01/family-portrait.html) (who was kind enough to point out that I couldn’t possibly be actually reading his site, since my link to him was wrong) has a nice article up on what too look for in a new church. He paints an excellent picture of the key features in a properly functioning thriving church ought to look like. However, I don’t know that I agree with him that finding a “good” church is the same thing as finding the “right” church to join. Continue reading “Finding a Church”

Evidentialism

I’m almost done reading Jon Ruthven’s wonderful book on cessationism.  It’s a fabulous book, even if it is a little too academic for most readers.  Hopefully I’ll be able to do something of a review later, but for now I wanted to share this quote:

Much divisiveness over the gifts of the Spirit today derives from a premise common to both sides to the debate: evidentialism.  If spiritual gifts are adduced as proofs of spiritual status or attainment, rather than used as tools for humble service for others, then conflict naturally follows.  The core temptation to the first and Last Adam (Christ), and by extension to all of us, was to use spiritual knowledge and power to accredit one’s independent and exalted religious status, instead of through them rendering glory, obedience and service to God.  Spiritual gifts are powerful weapons against the kingdom of darkness; but misapplied in evidentialist polemics they can wound and destroy the people of God.

Technispeak

You probably can’t tell, but this site is now officially running on WordPress 2.0.  Yay!  Now that that’s done I’ve got some fun improvements I’m planning to make.  I’m going to Ajaxify the layout a bit, so we can go straight from the little snippets on the front page to full articles without reloading a whole page (ditto for comments), and then I’m going to make some adjustments to the drop-down menus so they don’t take up some 80 KB on every page.  Hopefully nobody’ll notice.  That’s why I have to announce it.

And then I have plans to begin work on my very own first plugin (I’m so excited!).  I’m going to see if there’s a way I can create exportable blogrolls that can be shared with other weblogs.  That is, I want to be able to turn my wordpress link manager into my own version of blogrolling.com, without the silly fees for important features.  We’ll see what happens, eh?

That is all from me…