The current Christian Carnival is at Another Think. Here are some of the highlights, according to Semicolon.
Amadeus at The Theocrats, a Christian libertarian blog, is about to graduate from college, and he’s getting married—and he thinks young people are waiting too late to grow up and get married! Yes, I talked about this issue here, and I wish I knew the solution.
Phil at Another Man’s Meat discusses Dostoyevsky, Hugo, and Dickens and their use of profanity. You don’t remember the profanity in these authors’ books? Exactly. Would Dostoyevsky need to cuss?
Elsewhere in BlogWorld:
Carmon at Buried Treasure gives a poetry lesson.
I found out via this blog, My Walk, that Sunday April 24th is Internet Evangelism Day. If you’re a Christian and you have a blog, this day might be a good reminder to write about what it means to be a Christian and why it’s important. Or maybe you could help a friend start her own blog to communicate Christian truths and principles to a dying world. The world is still dying. Are we wasting our time here on the internet, fiddling while Rome burns so to speak? Or is this an effective medium for encouragement and evangelism?
Joe Missionary writes about a Bible Marathon,, an idea he found in the book Decision Making and the WIll of God by Gary Friesen. The idea is simple: a group of people get together and read straight through the Bible or a portion of the Bible. Group members take turns reading aloud. The length of time is up to the participants, anything from two hours to an entire day (or two successive days). I would really like to organize something like this, but sadly enough, I’m not sure who would agree to participate. Anyway, Joe has a more complete plan, taken from Friesen’s book.
Uh oh! I’ve blogged my way all the way into Saturday. Oh, well, enjoy.
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The marriage question is largely one of economics. People don’t drop out of school at 16 and work in the local factory or farm anymore; they go to college and do post-grad work. These things are necessary for a good standard of living.
I am confident that everything I learned in highschool and college could easily have been squeezed in before I was 18, probably earlier. I am also confident that hardly anything (beyond rudimentary reading skills) is actually useful in my job that pays $12 an hour. So even the “economic” factors are purely a social construction
There’s also no particular reason why I can’t go to grad and post-grad school and be married. In fact, I’m doing just that.
Thanks for the link. I’ll probably use both of you in an upcoming post on marrying early.
KB
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