{"id":1967,"date":"2010-08-06T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2016-01-23T22:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:48:28","slug":"weekly-links-862010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2010\/08\/06\/weekly-links-862010\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (8\/6\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey there everybody&#8230;it&#8217;s been a bit of a strange week.  There&#8217;s been a couple of very popular topics that I think need to be addressed, and then we&#8217;ll fill in the remaining space with some other good stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first thing that happened this week was that Anne Rice (of vampire-novel fame), rejected Christianity publicly on her Facebook page.  From the few conversations I&#8217;ve had, I&#8217;m guessing that about 5% of you are saying &#8220;Really?,&#8221; another 5% of you are saying &#8220;Anne Rice was a Christian?,&#8221; and about 90% of you are asking &#8220;Who&#8217;s Anne Rice?&#8221;  In any event, I thought the responses to this were quite good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koinoniablog.net\/2010\/08\/annerice.html\">Anne Rice and Our Modern Sin<\/a> by Michael Wittmer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centuri0n.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/from-2007-its-now-open-letter.html\">From 2007: It&#8217;s Now an Open Letter<\/a> by Frank Turk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2010\/07\/30\/anne-rice-hasnt-betrayed-you\/\">Anne Rice Hasn&#8217;t Betrayed You<\/a> by Russell Moore<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/anne-rice-love-christ-not-his-bride\/\">Anne Rice: Love Christ, Not His Bride<\/a> by Collin Hansen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/weekend-extra-our-enemies-can-be.html\">Our Enemies Can Be Reconciled<\/a> by Frank Turk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prop 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second item of note this week was the overturning of Prop 8 by a US District Judge.  There have been a number of responses and essays written, that run the spectrum from the cool and calculated (Dr. Mohler) to the not-so (Dr. White).  First, some required pre-reading (if you&#8217;re going to dive into this topic, or Lord protect and shield you, the comments section):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centuri0n.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/worst-of-all.html\">The Worst of All<\/a> by Frank Turk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hipandthigh.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/on-christians-compassion-and-being-gay.html\" class=\"broken_link\">On Christians, Compassion, and Being Gay<\/a> by Fred Butler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post some links here for you to read, if you so choose:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/special-meaning.html\">&#8220;Special Meaning&#8221;<\/a> by Frank Turk<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2010\/08\/05\/the-gavel-falls-on-marriage-the-proposition-8-decision\/\">A Gavel Falls on Marriage: The Proposition 8 Decision<\/a> by Dr. Albert Mohler<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aomin.org\/aoblog\/?itemid=4108\">The Amazing Hubris of the Ruling Class Judiciary<\/a> by Dr. James White<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hipandthigh.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/prop-8.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Prop. 8<\/a> by Fred Butler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Everything Else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For anyone not interested in either of the above (although I think both topics are relevent to us as Christians and our attitudes towards those struggling with a variety of issues), I&#8217;ll leave you with these AWESOME gems.  (And just because I had someone in mind when I flagged them, doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t read them, enjoy them, and talk to others about them):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Cesar, since he hasn&#8217;t been writing lately and might just need something wonderful to read: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/columns-tabletalk-magazine-august-2010\/\" class=\"broken_link\">August edition of Tabletalk<\/a> is out.  Enjoy 10th century church history m&#8217;man.<\/li>\n<li>For Pastor John, since he&#8217;ll need lots of MP3&#8217;s to keep him company as he gets lost in the streets and supermarkets of San Jose: did you know that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mljtrust.org\">free audio recordings of Martyn-Lloyd Jones<\/a>?  Me neither&#8230;amazing!<\/li>\n<li>And for Tia, since she needs more David Powlison, and we never did get to finish our discussion on anger: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcityindy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/anger-part-1.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Part 1 &#8211; Understanding Anger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcityindy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/anger-part-2.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Part 2 &#8211; Three Lies About Anger and the Transforming Truth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcityindy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/anger-part-3.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Part 3 &#8211; Getting to the Heart of Conflict<\/a>.  (And no, I&#8217;m not saying that Tia&#8217;s angry, just that she&#8217;ll love the articles.  Yeesh.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers Hey there everybody&#8230;it&#8217;s been a bit of a strange week. There&#8217;s been a couple of very popular topics that I think need to be addressed, and then we&#8217;ll fill in the remaining space with some other good stuff. Anne Rice The first thing that happened this week was that Anne Rice (of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11774,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}