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Survey on Where People Go for Emotional Support

Penny Edgell: The church as source of emotional support

read the full article via www.faithandleadership.duke.edu

YouTube video - Lost Generation

via www.youtube.com

A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite.

This video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause.

N.T. Wright on Our Worldview and Scripture | The BioLogos Foundation

Bishop of Durham and leading New Testament scholar N.T. Wright discusses how the Enlightenment worldview -- which clearly separates God from the world -- has impacted our view of Scripture, and why cleaning the "spectacles" through which we view the world can help us see both Scripture and the world more clearly.

via biologos.org

Follow the link to a nice 2 minute video of NT Wright speaking on how our worldview/culture/society influences how we see and come to the text of the Bible.

Scot McKnight's article on the life created by today's cultural forces

I'll link here to Scot Mcknight's post in Out of Ur.  The quote he works off is David Bentley Hart's from his  Athiest Delusions:

“We live in an age whose chief value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the inviolable liberty of personal volition, the right to decide for ourselves what we shall believe, want, need, own, or serve”. 

I think this is a very perceptive insight that for western society the first good is the liberty to choose rather than the quality of our choices.  Scot's metaphor is that we all live in high protective individual castle's unable to see true light beyond our own preferences.