The Dawn Treader

Ahem!

There is a smokin' hot new group blog you need to add to your regular reads. 

It is called The Point and the bloggers are the writers for Breakpoint.  Have you noticed how many professional writers are getting into blogging?  Nice trend.

A couple of interesting posts to check out : thoughts on how a Christian should think about satire: Satire Served Right, Gulliver and Satire, and Satire -vs- Sarcasm.

I also enjoyed Confessions of a Word Geek ... since, well, ... I am a word geek.  Found a new feed (Word Spy) to subcribe to so I won't miss out on the latest new word.

Mr. Dawntreader is a very loyal blog reader ... and my regular read list of blogs is very, very short.

However, everyone needs to get out in the blogosphere once in a while and test drive some different blogs.  So here is the list of blogs I am test driving.  Some are already quite established, but perhaps some are new to you.

World Changers.  I love that title ( a term I often use when describing my children ).  Steve Addison is an Aussie blogger who closely follows church movements.  World missions is where the real action is ... and Steve is going to help keep me apprised.

Under the Iceberg.  Another classic blog title.  Sam Metcalf is a friend of the family and the president of Church Resource Ministries, a worldwide ministry focused on empowering leaders from the harvest for the harvest.  Metcalf's pithy posts on leadership are worth a look.  Hey you emerging types -- check out the one on authenticity.

jmarkbetrand.com  Mark's break out post, Diss Isn't Discernment, has been linked to by just about every faith blogging superstar in the b'sphere.  Betrand writes from a reformed perspective and his writing style is nothing short of easy on the eyes.

Common Grounds Online.  Ok, Glenn Lucke's blog is old reading for most of you.  I am late in getting on the band wagon.  Grace oriented blogs are a must read.

Technology Review.  Who ever thot TR could mean something good?  Ok, inside joke.  Technology Review (TR) is for you technology wonks, or tech wonk wannabees like me.  No more being behind the tech curve for Mr. Dawntreader.

I join Macht in asking Type 2 Calvinists to please, please please stop.

Can't wait to read part 2 of Ryan Bolger's, Dreams for My School.  This guy really thinks outta dah box.  Granting a seminary degree to a community, now that's original.

For you political theorist types, go read Back to Federalism by Gelertner.

Is secular humanism dead?  Veith thinks it might be.

Veith also unpacks the scandal of the Duke lacrosse team in The Duke boys.  To my amazement, not one Dawn Treader reader has given me grief over this scandal -- not one.  As a graduate of Duke University (Fuqua class '90), I expected to get a little grief.  It seems I am getting one email a day (along with every other Duke alum)  from Duke president Richard H. Brodhead.  This scandal has shaken the very foundations of this institution which acts as the poster child for postmodernist, liberal, progressive thought.  To say Brodhead is sweating bullets about now is the understatement of the year.  He has formed more committees to investigate every inch of this thing than you can shake a stick at.  I guarantee you there is one place he is not looking -- at worldviews.  Isn't it amazing how unlivable subjective ethics are in the real world?  Just ask Brodhead.

Finally, to top it off.  Looks like "teach the controversy" may be happening anyway, Dover decision or not.  Don't you like how the L.A. Times portrays the students as gap toothed idiots and the teacher as noble?  Gotta love those Inherit The Wind stereotypes ;)

Catez Stevens has some interesting posts and comment threads here and here.  The topic is Christian involvement in politics.  She asserts that some Christians opt-out of engaging culture in favor of political activism.   I agree that political activism is not a proxy for engaging culture.

Catez ("no I am not Cat Stevens") Stevens has put together a compilation of posts related to science and Christianity.  The only rule was ... nothing about evolution -vs- creation.  Right on!

I submitted a post myself.  There is a lot of good reading there folks.  Go enjoy.