For old times' sake

by Phil Johnson


BlogSpotting

• Andrew Jones proposes some guidelines for handling the "loud clashing of opinions as the web becomes host to the binaries of print and web, professor and theoblogian, academia and grass roots, EC bloggers and fundie-bloggers . . ." His four main points do offer some very sound words of advice.
  
• Say what you will about Matt Gumm; he is a loyal and prolific sidekick.
  
• Bob AuBuchon likes the Pyrographics.
  
• Patrick Miller delveth into PyroMania and bringeth forth out of our treasure things new and old.
  
• Rod Pickett figures we've all been reading Romans 1:16 wrong.
  
• Kim Shay gives a fine summary of Frank Turk's latest post.
  
• James Kubecki adds some helpful observations to this week's dose of Spurgeon.
  
• Michael Spencer misses the point. Again.
  
• The guys at NeoFundamentalist are intrigued to see the term fundamentalist being slung at me as a pejorative. They ponder the irony of that and make some astute observations.
  
• Rey at "Rey'sA Point" thinks we're all in over our heads, but 2 Corinthians 5:21 is "interesting to think about."
  
• Michael Hamblin observes that when the "Emerging Conversation" might be a place for fresh air to be infused into the evangelical movement, instead, it has been a source of "heavy theological pollution." He sagely adds, "Sadly, many in the emerging conversation have accepted the notion that orthodoxy rather than heresy is the source of division in the body." His post is well worth reading. Spencer Burke replied to him in a comment.
  
• Rob Tombrella Has kind words about the seies on 2 Corinthians 5:21.
  
• So did Jason Robertson.
  
• B and B, the
  "Two Happy Beggars," liked that series, too. They find us hard to read, but worth the effort.
  
• Eddie Beal Reads DJP's post and thinks aloud about what it means to be a Berean.
  
• Michael Beasley is convinced that the Emerging Church/Conversation/Free-for-All is "a spiritually dangerous emergency." I agree.
  
• Kenny Wells has very kind words for us in his superb annotated blogroll.
  
• Greg Wertime ain't happy with Dan Phillips.
  
• Timmy Brister takes us back to our roots.
  
• Malchymist slaps me around with a George Orwell book and demands that I hand my colorized Spurgeon pictures over to the public domain. Then he points to Darrin Brooker, who has colourized Horatius Bonar. Nice job.
  
• Mathew Sims posts an index of the 2 Corinthians 5:21 series.
  
• Nathan White gives the GraceLife podcasts an A+. Thanks.
  
• "From the Morning" Interviews the iMonk about the "Emergent Church." He is surprisingly and uncharacteristically tight-lipped, but he does accidentally let slip a couple of actual answers to their questions. And of course, he manages to work in gratuitous insults for me and James White.

Update regarding the last item on my list: The iMonk posted a gracious apology. I do appreciate his humility and am sympathetic to the stress he has been under this summer, in the wake of an almost Joblike avalanche of trials. We Pyros have been praying for divine grace, and relief from stress and sorrow for the iMonk.

Another update: So much for the "apology." It has quietly been expunged from the record.

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