Your Best Links Now – 1/3/14

Duck Dynasty and “Happy Blacks”

This piece by Jemar Tisby at the Reformed African American Network should be considered by all interested in the recent A&E/Phil Robertson controversy.

All of John Howard Yoder’s Books Will Now Contain an Abuse Disclaimer

“A church publisher will front all future books by one of its denomination’s most-famous theologians with an unusual acknowledgment: the pacifist author’s ‘long-term sexual harassment and abuse of women’.”

Video Venues Are a Barrier to Most of the People We Want to Reach

Bob Hyatt writes a guest post at Ed Stetzer’s blog reflecting on recent LifeWay research on people’s perceptions of church video venues. Briefly: “more than a third of respondents who would be completely turned off by a video sermon, with another third expressing a preference against them.”

The Confessional Protestant Coalition

2014 will include, Lord willing, my third visit to preach at Lancaster Bible College, a school whose students and faculty I am more and more impressed with and blessed by. This Confessional Protestant Coalition is the theological brainchild of several folks connected to LBC, students and graduates, and the material is top-notch. I would add their blog to my subscriptions, if I were you.

Famous Cartoons and Their Celebrity Doppelgangers

Abraham Piper at 22 Words with another diversion for your daily mental checking-out. The Lion-O/Carrot Top pairing is especially inspired.

Cardboard Stories

This presentation of testimonies from the Austin Stone Church in Austin, TX is a few years old but still moving.

Cardboard Stories from The Austin Stone on Vimeo.