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Thu, 07/31/2008 - 21:01 — G. Atkinson

 

I've found some interesting stuff in our blog network over the past few days. Check it out.

Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed notes that Codex Sinaiticus is now online. Greek geeks will be thrilled. It's got a nice interface too.

Allan Bevere, a new CCblogger, writes about blogging etiquette and anonymous comments.

Gen-X Rising has some interesting questions to ask about mission trips. Are they worth the trouble? Are they the best use of resources? It's the kind of question people wonder but don't want to ask.

Keith Herron's Birdie is back. This time she wonders if her pastor has ever heard the voice of God. (And haven't we all had parishioners like that?)

Christian Century editor David Heim has an interesting and inverted way of thinking about the problem of evil. He calls it "The problem of the nonproblem of suffering."

Jonathan Carroll asks a question that many ministers struggle with. Should we perform weddings for people who really just want to be married and don't care that much for the religious part of the ceremony?

 

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Sun, 08/03/2008 - 18:53 — administrator
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I wanted to comment on David

I wanted to comment on David Helms blog about marriage but he has locked the comments there.

Briefly I just wanted to share the guts of a conversation I had with a great pastor friend of mine on their very subject. Actually it was a bit tangential, it was in relation to remarriage of divorcees in the light of Mathews explanation from Jesus about this. However the principle he gave me in the answer covers both scenarios.
In Johns eyes he would happily marry anyone where they truly loved each other and wanted to get marries. Reason, he would rather they were married than not. I guess this doesn't go any way to answering all the questions David raised in his article, but I liked the answer. It allows couples the opportunity to experience the covenental blessing of marriage and means that they are not so casually involved.