Two Moderate Christian Blogroll members have recently posted very different views on the inspiration vs human nature of the Bible.
The first was posted on Shuck and Jive, while the second was posted at Moral Science Club. Check them out and join the debate.
Read about it here.
T. Michael Cart talks about how Jesus taught his disciples to pray.
Christian Beyer suggests we take another look.
John Meunier provides a great quote.
Eddie at Kouya Chronicles quotes Tom Wright. Hilarious, true, great!
On the new Moderate Christian Topics Page, I now include tags for Business, Education, and Photography.
These tags come via my Google Reader, so you can also click through the “Read More” link in the bottom right hand corner of the widget and get an RSS feed link if you want to follow only one topic.
As always, I include only links, not whole posts anywhere I display these.
I’ve been looking for a way to make the blogroll more valuable for some time. Considering how far behind I get on the little bit of administrative work I have to do now, whatever idea I found couldn’t take much time.
I found it! I have added a new topics page, which uses the tagging from my Google Reader, most of which I’m doing anyhow, to show only the Moderate Christian Blogroll members’ posts by topic.
I am putting a bit of advertising on the page, as there is some added value here, but I’m only posting links using the Google widget that comes with the reader. If you don’t want to be included, let me know, and I’ll exclude your blog.
First, apparently Blogrolling has been having troubles for some time so that rolls cannot be updated. They expect to have this fixed soon. I didn’t notice because I was so far behind in updating the roll.
Second, I have just updated the roll with submissions going all the way back to October last year, so if you have been waiting forever and ever, you may find yourself on the roll now.
The blogrolling blogrolls (sounds good, no?) still work, but I can’t add the new members yet. The other means of including the blogroll on your site still work, including:
Display all sites in random order: http://www.moderatechristian.com/xml.php (The default is to display site names and do so in random order.)
Display sites with most recently updated first: http://www.moderatechristian.com/xml.php?order=recent (order can also = alpha, but that is not particularly useful as there are more than 50 sites on the blogroll.)
Limit the number of posts (maximum and default are both 50): http://www.moderatechristian.com/xml.php?order=recent&max=10
List posts rather than sites: http://www.moderatechristian.com/xml.php?type=posts.
In addition, you can subscribe to the RSS feed from my Google Reader Moderate Christian Blogroll folder. I’m not at all sure why you would prefer to do it that way, but you can.
What are these 4 Posts entries? As many days of the week as I have time I look through the RSS feed for the Moderate Christian Blogroll/Aggregator and select four posts on a single topic. Usually the topic is suggested because a post has caught my eye. To call my attention to a post you have written e-mail pubs@energion.com and suggest your post and a general topic heading. Your blog must be a member of the Moderate Christian blogroll, and in general I prefer to include posts within the last week only.
I’m having to look a ways back to get a balance. I wanted two that would be more or less pro-Republican and two that would be more or less pro-Democratic, but I had some difficulty finding them all.
Dr. Michael Westmoreland-White discusses why he believes Obama should win and will.
Joel thinks we need to get real. He also liked John McCain’s idea of suspending the campaign. (OK, so I gave him an extra link, but it helps balance this post!)
On the other hand, is this the actual Democratic position on abortion?
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