Deer antlers have memory
This is just cool. Damage an antler, and it will grow a spur. But not only will this antler grow a spur, next year’s antler will grow that same spur in the same place. That means that “memory” of that damage isn’t stored in the antler – it’s been shed; it’s gone! – but somewhere else. God’s creation is ever more amazing the deeper we look.
Do you enjoy what you read to your children?
Our library here has a sale once or twice a year where they will sell off old books for as little as a quarter. My kids would pick out some good ones, but they’d also pick out books that were just bright and colorful spinoffs from popular kids’ shows, or had bland computer-generated graphics accompanying text about the sounds A and B make. Those books were the sort that, read on repeat, were so mind-numbingly boring it produced a physical effect – they left me with a tingling all across the top and back of my skull! I don’t know if banal, boring books cause other parents pain, but I’ll bet when they fall apart no mom or dad is mourning their passing.
Now that I’m older, and have no littles to read to, I know how I would have done it different… or might do it as a grandparent. I would read way more classics, and less of this clutter. Why not read books they will remember fondly and want to read to their own kids in a couple decades? There is no shortage of such.
7 key differences between Protestants and Catholics
…presented about as succinctly as possible.
On watching what we wear
Kevin DeYoung on how the issue of modesty isn’t all that complicated.
Being nice instead of godly is a theology for losers
Some of the nicest people I know couldn’t get over what God had said about homosexuals and transexuals. So, for the sake of being nice they just ignored what He said, so they wouldn’t have to “judge” anyone.
But is that “niceness” nice at all? Encouraging someone to run towards Hell is about as mean as you can get. And as this article details, there’s not just an eternal future cost, but also one in the here and now too – gender ideology has people cutting of their healthy body parts, and practicing chemical sterilization.
What if a sleazy used-car salesman became a Christian?
That was the fascinating premise behind the Kendrick brothers‘ very first film, Flywheel, which they made way back in 2003. While other Christian films of the time finished with a conversion scene, this had it more of midway through, and the best part of the story was the repentant con-man, now a Christian, trying to figure out what he should do about all the people he had defrauded in the past.
While the idea was great, the execution was at best middling. It was the Kendricks’ very first film and it showed. But, last year, they were approached by a group of Brazilian Christians about allowing them to remake Flywheel, but this time in Portuguese. So they did, and I’m intrigued. I know the moral to the story is going to be front and center; the Kendricks make movies to teach and preach so they’ve never been ones for subtlety. But they have really upped their craftsmanship in the 23 years since they made the original so I have to admit I’m really curious to see how this story will look now, all polished up. It’ll be showing in Canadian and American theaters – with subtitles – starting on October 16.