The Orant – How Wendell Berry Is Saving My Sanity, and My Ministry

Christianity Today – Evangelical Evolutionists Meet in New York

The New York Times – On the Origin of Everything

The Onion – Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory

Joy – “Postmodern” Isn’t a Dirty Word

Dianna Anderson on Alise…Write! – Grace Indeed: Cross Gender Friendships

PomoMusings – Sarah Bessey on (Re)Imagining Christianity

P.ost – Evangelicalism, a New Kind of

James K.A. Smith – Kings, Creeds, and the Canon: Musing on N.T. Wright

Jason Boyett – 9 Things I Don’t Miss About Christian Blog Culture

Daniel Kirk discusses how to differentiate between what is, and isn’t, written to us in Scripture.

Leslie Keeney with Why “The Bible is our Instruction Manual” is the Worst Metaphor in the History of the World. 

Joy confesses I Can’t Read The Bible That Way.

David Livermore bemoans the return of the Ugly American Reputation.

Julie Clawson suggests we can view The Hunger Games as an Allegory of Christian Love, Monica Selby explains Why We Need Dystopian Tales, Amy Simpson discusses Jesus in the Hunger Games, and Bo Sanders looks at the irony of Violence in The Hunger Games (Ok, fine, I should probably give in and read this story soon).

Rachel Held Evans hosts “Ask a Pacifist” with Tripp York.

The Work of the People now has video available from Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream.

Required reading on the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Sarah discusses Vulnerability as True Courage.

Suzannah on The Youth Exodus & Consumer Christianity,

Brett McCracken praises Being Out of the Loop.

How Books are Born (HT: Tim Challies)

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove asks, why are we so quick to dismiss A Nonviolent Response to Joseph Kony?

Rachel shares a moving reflection about her Life in the Christian “Industry.”

Susannah reflects on the little things that betray how the church often views women.

Hugo suggests that how women dress isn’t the problem, it’s just a convenient excuse for men.

Leslie Keeney searches for A New Apologetic

Julie Clawson on the irony of the Consumerist Reappropriation of The Hunger Games.

A brilliant post on Anglicans and the Authority of Scripture.

Rowan Williams is retiring as Archbishop of Canterbury. Early speculation sees Dr. John Sentamu as a likely candidate to replace him.

NPR interviews Alain de Botton about his book Religion for Atheists.

An interesting video of two politically active Christians, one in the Tea Party and one in the Occupy movement.

Do we use relatively minor adjustments to a broken system to justify our continuing participation in it? Dianna Anderson shares a controversial video from philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

Someone stole the remains of a saint’s heart from a Dublin cathedral – the heart was purportedly 850 years old…

Daniel Kirk suggests narrative theology calls us to action in a different way in Faithfulness Beyond Instruction.

James K.A. Smith looks at a new book on Post-Secularism.

Does Suburbia Hurt Christianity?

Brian LePort shares an important video about the effects of media consumption on young women.

David Nilsen with K’NEX, Barbie and the tension of true feminism.

Sarah reminds us Life isn’t Instagram.

Jon Acuff on Thinking You’re Naked.

Rehabilitating Inerrancy in a Culture of Fear.

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The KONY 2012 video took the internet by storm this week. If you haven’t seen it, the video is about the war crimes of Joseph Kony and his horrific pattern of forcing children into his army.

While awareness of such atrocities is very important, and I’m encouraged to see so many people expressing a passion for this issue, there were questions raised about the video and Invisible Children, the charity that produced it.

Some of the best articles I read on the controversy this week were from Andrew Harding at BBC Africa, Mark Memmot at NPR, and Joshua Keating at Foreign Policy Magazine.

Also, Rachel Held Evans posted an extensive list of resources about Kony, the conflict, and Invisible Children.

Nadia Bolz-Weber shares 40 Ideas for Keeping Lent.

Peter Rollins suggests The Contemporary Church is a Crack House.

Tim Gombis on How to Desire the Kingdom of God.

Tim Keller continues Blogging on Evolution.

Daniel Kirk contrasts Narrative Theology and Systematic Theology, while Stephen Nichols teaches by Framing Systematics within a Narrative.

Joy talks of sharing the Gospel and All this Fumbling Doubt.

At Resurgence, Justin Holcomb writes on Heresy and a Call for Humility.

Peter Leithart discusses Americanism and doubts the possibility of a Truly Secular Political Order.

The Politics of Doctor Seuss.

Megan reflects on the dangers of Pushing Politics on Facebook.

Roger Olson on the tension between two of his theological heroes, Yoder and Niebuhr.

Carlos Bovell questions Inerrancy in his post God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Scriptures.

Brian LePort writes on Becoming and Re-Becoming a Christian, and shares this video from Rowan Williams.

Rachel Held Evans continues to interact with Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible (one of my favorite books of 2011), this week she examines the differences between Biblicism and a Christocentric Hermeneutic.

Ray Hollenbach with Sinners in the Hands of Willy Wonka.

David Nilsen Embraces the Crazy.

Kevin DeYoung explains Why He Hopes Real Books Never Die, while Marc Cortez reflects on The Value of Reading Fiction.

Joel Willits writes an Invitation to Lent, and Roger Olson suggests some Lenten Meditations for Baptists.

Diana Butler Bass writes of The End of Church, while Rodney Stark suggests the statistics don’t support all our worrying.

Tim Keller begins Blogging About Evolution at BioLogos.

Joy discusses at the Adventist origins of Young Earth Creationism.

McCracken with When Doctrine Stays Quiet.

The Rosewood Initiative tries new ways of being Church-with-the-neighborhood.

Daniel Kirk begins a series on Narrative Theology.

Who needs the Bible when you have Systematic Theology?

Dining After ‘Downton Abbey’: Why British Food Had a Bad Reputation For So Long.

Finally, a brilliant video from Richard Bauckham which summarizes the argument he made in Jesus and the Eyewitnesses.

Frank Viola interviewed Christian Smith about The Bible Made impossible, and guest-posted about Beyond Evangelicals for Kurt Willems.

Peter Enns responds to Kevin DeYoung.

Craig Keener asks, Are Miracles Real?

Tim Gombis on how Jesus Transforms our Corrupted Assumptions.

New studies reveal that women, long a majority in the pews, are stepping away from the Catholic Church.

Jenell Paris’ Memo to the Masses sparks an interesting discussion of how bloggers often inadvertently give a wider audience to the very things they oppose.

Kathy Keller explains the benefits of raising kids in the city.

Scot McKnight on The Story and Daily Life.

Andy Unedited shares What Publishers can Learn from Airlines.