Monthly Archives: May 2010

Memorial Day

From Yorktown, Virginia, just a few miles from the decisive battlefield of the American Revolution, a big thank you to all who have served our country in the armed forces, including their families; and a special thanks for those who gave their lives for our freedom.

May 31, 2010 – 9:17 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Service | Comments Off

Gay Rights Distortions and Aggression

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Manhattan Declaration

Clay Farris Naff asked in the Huffington Post this week, Do We Really Want America to Be a Christian Iran? It only takes a moment’s reflection on that question to realize Naff’s sense of proportion (like Tavis Smiley’s) is askew. Many of his “facts” and his arguments are too. It’s about the Manhattan Declaration, from …

May 30, 2010 – 8:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (35)

How Not To Read the Bible

The other day I ran across some guidance on reading the Bible. Going through long passages in one sitting—as in reading through the Bible in a year—is a Bad Way to do it, it said. We must read and study short passages; for it takes unhurried, in-depth meditation to really hear what God is saying …

May 29, 2010 – 2:38 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, The Faith | Comments (1)

Blog Rendering Problem?

I’m getting a report from someone of an error in this blog’s display: Vista 7 x64, 3.5.9 firefox, and yeah, pretty sure javascript is turned on. The only issue is that the text below your banner is all shifted heavily to the right. Everything else is fine, just wildly misaligned. Maybe it’s on my end, …

May 28, 2010 – 9:23 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (4)

On the Greatness of God

A guided exploration of the greatness of God, unlike other podcasts I’ve done, in that it’s not a talk I gave before a group. It is instead a meditation, intended for contemplation and worship—and to stretch your thinking about the greatness of God. You won’t want to listen to it in your car, but someplace …

May 28, 2010 – 11:40 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , | Comments Off

Blogging at First Things

By Joe Carter’s gracious invitation, I’ve joined the team blogging at First Things: Evangel, with my first post published there this afternoon. It’s quite a privilege to be there. My blogging there will be in addition to what I do here (some of it will be reposts from here) so it doesn’t indicate any changes …

May 27, 2010 – 7:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

Cerebration Blog

I just added a new link to my blogroll: Cerebration, by Shelly Duffer. Shelly is a long-time friend of our family’s, who has recently been putting her excellent thinking out on the web as an active blogger. Possibly my favorite post of hers (she’s going to hate me for picking this one!) is her review …

May 26, 2010 – 1:26 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off