Your Best Links Now – 1/21/14

Is Marijuana Use a Sin? by Joe Carter

“Although many Christians consider the answer to the question to be rather straightforward, it can be helpful to examine the reasoning process that allows us to determine how biblical principles can be applied to this issue . . .”

Those Darn Colonizing, Proselytizing Missionaries

CT’s Andrea Palpant Dilley explores how the work by foreign missionaries — whom so many more “enlightened” folks today think did it all wrong — “turns out to be the single largest factor in ensuring the health of nations.”

The Mysterious Buried Treasure in Lynchburg, VA

It’s a cryptogram right out of National Treasure. The still-unfound buried treasure of Thomas Jefferson Beale is reportedly worth millions. But you’ll need to crack the coded messages to find it. You will probably have to use the Declaration of Independence — the text of it! You won’t need to steal the original.

Steve Bezner says the Film Gravity is An Allegory of the Life of the Apostle Peter

“I think that Cuarón is not simply talking about some sort of generic ‘rebirth’ but is specifically telling the Christian story through an allegory of the story of the apostle Peter,” Bezner writes. “Yes, it’s a bold claim.” It is. I’m not buying it. But maybe you will.

Five Reasons You May Never Get Published by Steve Laube

“There are many factors that go into the acquisition, development, and sale of a new book. But the majority of ideas never get to that point. I thought it might be helpful to review some of the most common issues we’ve run into.” Steve — who happens to be my agent — will always shoot you straight.



“Mystery House” Has the Internet Buzzing

There might be one on your block. It looks like a house. But it isn’t. What is it?