Your Best Links Now – 2/12/14

The Story That Writes Itself by Kevin DeYoung

On the new “moral” majority’s ready-for-Mad-Libs pontificating, DeYoung writes, “There is no conversation any longer, just condescension. No acceptance of diverse viewpoints, just personal obliteration for anyone who dares to question Oceania’s Ministry of Truth. The talking heads and the purveyor’s of cultural correctness don’t feel the need to make arguments anymore. They don’t feel the need to listen either. After all, who can refute a sneer? No need to prove your dogma when stigma will do.”

Where Do I Like To Write? by BJ Stockman

“Godliness is never an overnight process. Greatness has all the flash, while godliness simmers under the surface. Greatness may make the newspapers of one generation, but godliness has a lasting impact that ripples through many generations. Americans, even Christian ones, crave the great but not the godly. How do we do this? How do we get godly? As pragmatists, we want to know this too . . .”

When I Have a [Talking About] Drinking Problem by Preston Yancey

Yancey’s piece here is a well-written and challenging word begging to be considered by those of us who like to Instagram our booze (and tobacco) and other enjoyed liberties.

UFO Conference Won’t Host the Dead Sasquatch Exhibit

Bigots.

There Are No Ordinary People

Ray Ortlund quotes the famous Lewis passage that begins, “It’s a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses . . .”



Chuck Berry, “Roll Over Beethoven”

Classic greatness.