(considering) 8:28

Implications of the Sovereignty of God

Category: Culture

  • Law: A Quebec father who was successfully sued by his daughter after a grounding loses his appeal before the Quebec Superior Court. Fasting: Christianity Today reviews Scot McKnight’s new book. Piracy: An American Ship was seized by pirates off the coast of Africa. The crew then took back the ship.

  • Science: Why a guy should shower before a date. Culture: Secularism takes hold in the U.S. More Culture: Unfortunately for Newsweek, lower circulation is also taking hold. History: Schindler’s list is found in Australia (the paper, not the movie).

  • Suicide: It’s apparently a wonderful human possibility. I’m with Ruth Gledhill on this one. Politics: North Korea claims to have put a satellite in orbit. U.S. and South Korea dispute the claim. What does this mean? Not much of anything. Journalism: I so love when words seem to give more information than they actually do.

  • I’ve been reading a book I got at the local Chapters Bookstore today (Ezra Levant, Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights, McClelland & Stewart, 2009), and came to learn some interesting things about my own province. At first, I thought the author had to be making it up,…

  • One of my more thoughtful co-workers was talking about the advantage of the world ending by a zombie outbreak. The reason that he thought it a good way for the world to end was that he thought that the world would do a heck of a lot better without us humans, and there’s something poetic…