Mental Multivitamin on ignorance and what to do once you realize you are, ignorant, that is. How does she keep writing such convicting and right-thinking posts? I guess she. just. does. it.

George Grant on Miguel Cervantes and Don Quixote.

Alan at Thinklings on community-centered churches. I am very interested in this topic and may post more about it soon.

Thinklings Jared on literary references in Lost, the TV program. We’re all fans here, but not as crazy as some people seem to be. Did you know that if you miss an episode, you can download it at iTunes for $1.99? Other network shows are available, too.

Bookworm links to a YahooNews article about fallacies in the usual recommendations for feeding infants. She quotes her pediatrician:

“When my second child was born, I had a new pediatrician, who’d been practicing a gazillion years, and who scoffed at all the powdered and jarred food. ‘Just take whatever the family is eating,’ he said, ‘and mush it up.'”

That’s exactly what I did with all mine, just mushed up whatever would mush with a fork. My children have no food allergies, and some are picky eaters and some are not. So, my verdict is that it doesn’t really matter what you feed them when they’re as long as they get some nutrition and don’t choke. A few people were shocked when my two year old was chowing down at the chili cook-off at our church. She’d been eating chili and beans for a year or so by then with no ill effects.

The Duggar family of Arkansas just welcomed their sixteenth child. Congratulations to them!

Paradise Lost: The Movie? Why does this quote from the producer not give me much confidence that this movie version of the Fall won’t be a flop? (Link from OUPblog)

“Paradise Lost represents the epitome of mythology in that it is the oldest myth with a capital M. I always felt that the story really captures the initial struggle between good and evil and is also the first human love story.”

Finally, a long post from Michael Spencer, iMonk, on the past, present and future of the Southern Baptist Convention. I’d like to comment on some of this, but probably won’t get around to it. Since I’m also an interested observer of Southern Baptist life nowadays, having jumped ship to an Evangelical Free church a couple of years ago, I share at least iMonk’s vantage point, if not all of his opinions. I, too, “am a product of Southern Baptist people, churches, schools and culture. What I am is almost entirely a matter of the incubator of Southern Baptist evangelicalism as I have experienced it.” “. . . when I am let loose to worship without my children, I’ll be dreaming of a reformation-flavored, liturgy-friendly, Founders church with Fred Malone preaching and a Lottie Moon offering at Christmas.”

Lottie Moon, yes, but who’s Fred Malone?