Cool Chatter...

Nathan helpfully drew my attention here to the anti-cool phenomenon. This round of anti-cool attack seems to be particularly in response to Blue Like Jazz, a collection of reflections by Donald Miller. No doubt the reaction is partly due to the by-line: "Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality".

In other blog news, Al discusses 'the cool' here, firmly placing himself behind the book.

However, this 3-point post from Mikey just nails it. So nails it.

Maybe I should actually read this book...

Nah, I'm off to read some Clifford Simak.

A clarification of a fun discussion

There's been a big bunch of discussion on all things sin and depraved going on lately between Simon (here and here + comments) and Nathan (here and here + comments) and myself.

My thoughts (here and here + comments) aren't actually centred on quite the same focus as Simone and Nathan's, from what I can tell. My point is merely to give an anthropology which gives an acceptable approximation of the Scripture's testimony about us. In so doing, I've dealt with the area of sin as a matter of necessity.

My point, though, hasn't been to create a method for dealing with temptation. No how-to guides here.

And so, in this way, I say a hearty 'amen' to many of the points made by both Nathan and Simone. Particularly, to many of the things that Nathan said from Romans 6 in his post on righteousness.

I'll try to engage with their thinking on temptation (which, to me, seems ultimately to be the context for Simone's thinking) and the 'stance' of the Christian life in general (which seems to be the context for Nathan's thinking) in the next couple of days.