Your Best Links Now – 1/22/14

Are Arminians Semi-Pelagians?

Nathan Finn writes, “Synergism is not necessarily semi-Pelagianism, in much the same way that monergism is not necessarly fatalism.”

The Code Even the CIA Can’t Crack

Which is weird since it’s posted right outside the front doors of their headquarters. “People call me an agent of Satan,” says its artist creator, “because I won’t tell my secret.”



Helping Someone Through a Salvation Experience by David Platt

“How should we handle these moments on a practical level? What should we say and what should we do when God grants us the privilege of harvesting a new follower of Christ?”

14 Sweet Lines from Winnie-the-Pooh

e.g. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard by Sean Trainor at The Atlantic

All you beardos should love this slice of American history.

The 1972 Magnavox Odyssey

Commercial for the first consumer video game console. Still has fewer buttons than some of these newer-fangled video-doomaflatchies.