Wow…I’m a day late with this. My deepest apologies. I was out of town and had limited internet. I actually didn’t check my email for 24 straight hours. I was talking to Rose about that. I can’t remember the last time I’ve gone that long. Is that bad?
- Eugene Cho is in the process of starting his own humanitarian organization. Check it out.
- A Thomas Jefferson Bible has been found. Pretty interesting to see how he treated the Bible. We often think of the Founding Fathers as deeply devoted Christian men. After you read it, you decide if he was a Christian. I think he was pretty lost and confused.
- Jay has continued the conversation from my God Bless America post on his blog.
- Dan Kimball has 2 awesome posts on the how controversial choirs and organs are.
- The new NBC show Kath and Kim starts in September…it looks hilarious.
- Randy Elrod on the “reverse graffiti project.” Pretty sweet.
- Short quotes on what it means to be missional.
Sports
My Twins have finally turned it on. Last Sunday their 2nd year pitcher threw a 3 hitter. Only one game back in the Central, they have won 18 out of 21 and have one of the best records in baseball. Who would have thought? (I did).
Thanks for all the great links!
I believe that most of our Founding Fathers were Diests, rather than devout Christians. Many of them believed in the existance of God and religious freedom; but the Church, at large, puts them on a pedastool. They were men, just like us- with faults and different ideas that still make our nation great, but nevertheless…Jefferson was believed to have affairs, Washington grew up, originally wanting to be an officer in the Brit army, and so on the bubbles burst. But for me- I think it’s a good thing b/c it shows that they were real people, with real struggles and doubts and persuasions. I get the impression it suprised you some?? What were your impressions? And besides your general statement…what are they now??
i think i was surprised that jefferson called it a book of morals essentially. it is so different from the notion that i think many have of the US being founded as a Christian nation. just because jefferson liked some of the gospels doesn’t make him a Christian, like you said.
It’s one of those things where I think we can speculate pretty well, but on the whole, we can never really know what was in their hearts and minds. The one thing the article pointed out was that men like Jefferson and Adams were a product of their time…and I would agree with that. You and I are a product of ours, of our environment…who is to say that people won’t speculate or criticize our way of thinking 200+ years from now, ya know??
yeah i would agree with that. still a little surprising compared to what most people think about how America was founded.