Richard Land on GOP ‘08: No Rudy, No Way, No How!! Roundup for 10-26

The Police “ten-code” for a 10-26 is “Detaining subject, expedite.” Ironically, last week’s roundup was so full of Osteen and Hybels that other important subjects did have to be cut and deferred to this week. Up first: Politics. Richard Land was quoted in Newsweek recently, and he threatened to vote for a third party if Giuliani won the Republican nomination.

• Denny Burk brings Land’s comments to our attention.

Headline #2, not quite as recent news, but significant nonetheless, is Wayne Grudem’s endorsement of Mitt Romney.

• Denny Burk brings Grudem’s endorsement to our attention.
• LeStourgeon ruminates on the news and has a nice interaction with a commenter.
  
• The Roundup Redactor has a love-hate relationship with Grudem, and is frustrated because he could not find Erickson or Berkhof’s take on the 2008 election.
  

And here is some of the other high quality political blogging I’ve come across recently.

• Brent Thomas has been thinking about
  • the worst case scenario for next November, and
  • being torn about what to do.
• DJ Drummond of the secular blog WizBang had a not so well refined, but honest post on The God Who Votes. Beware the comments section on that one.
• Ed Stetzer on GetReligion on Baptist Press on Fred Thompson.
• Trent Hunter blogs about Keyes and Obama’s abortion exchange.
• Russell Moore blogs on the significance of Jindal’s gubernatorial victory in Louisiana.
• Fenderpooh (Email us - we can help you update that.) has weighed the field, and come back to Huckabee???
• Denny Burk is going for the “prolific political blogger of the week” award, and has won it.
  • Why he will not vote for Giuliani.
  • Why the Louisiana Gubernatorial Election matters.
  • The Dallas Morning News distorted the remarks FBC Dallas’ Dr. Jeffress made about Mormonism and Mitt Romney in his sermon.

Chapel Bloggers

• Ryan Sanders blogged on Dr. Wicker’s message of 10/11 (audio)
• Terry Delaney blogged on Dr. Mohler’s message of 10/23 (audio)

A couple of Southern Seminary bloggers have put together good work on Altar Calls and/ or the Invitation System.

• Corey Reynolds is questioning the invitation system.
• Geoff Baggett has started a series entitled “Altar Call Confusion.”
  • Part I
  • Part II
• Timmy Brister has two related posts on the topic:
  • He identified the modern equivalents of Finney’s “New Measures”.
  • Then he argued how the invitation system undermines evangelism.

Gender Bloggers:

• Denny Burk hosted a Q&A on Complementarianism.
• Alex Leung has blogged multiple installments on the dangers of Evangelical Feminism:
  • Part I: The Elephant in the Room.
  • Part II: Exegeting Galatians 3:28.
  • Conclusion: Responding to Exegetical Fallacies
• Fenderpooh (I can’t remember a more cumbersome name) recently performed a wedding, giving him the chance to revel in The Beauty of Complementarity.
• Bryan Lilly’s post on Masculinity and being raised by a Single Mother got cross-posted at CBMW.
• Gretchen (who works at the campus Lifeway) has a nice post on Teaching Femininity Through Literature, complete with a nice bibliography. (I just hope her husband doesn’t have to endure Jane Eyre or any of the Jane Austen novels as a result. Even the movie version is like six hours long!!!)
• Last but not least, the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood website and blog is a tremendous clearinghouse for how to approach gender christianly. In the past month or so, they have posted:
  • Popular Mechanics’ 25 Skills Every Man Should Know, and an open season for commenters to come up with a better list.
    • Update #1 on the Real 25 Skills
  • A promise to implement a comment section, and an interim email method to leave feedback.
  • Courtney Tarter’s musings on the Hollywoodization of Weddings.
  • Girls Gone Mild.
  • Northwestern College’s (NOT Northwestern University in Chicago!!) new Gender Matters Task Force.
  • Fatherless Homes.

Christian Subculture; When Brethren in Christ act in puzzling ways, bloggers are there. Of course, sometimes it is the bloggers themselves who are doing bizarre things in the name of Christ. I’ll let you, the reader be the judge.

• Josh “the slugger” Hitchcock of the Reformed Mafia is alarmed at a “Fashion Magazine” edition of the Bible aimed at teenaged girls.
• Brent blogged about the problems encountered by those who only want to listen to “Christian” music.
• Corey Reynolds wants to eliminate the pagan names for the days of the week and replace them with “christian” ones.
• Trevin Wax provided a You Tube link to a Christian and an Atheist’s reflections on their visits to megachurches.
• Matt Wireman reflected on how the sin of Pride and the state of being big seem to be fellow-travellers among churches.
• Southern Seminary reference librarian Paul Roberts reviewed a book that shows how church signs have accompanied the “marketization” of the church.
• Geoff Baggett related in a guest post on sbc IMPACT! how his local association spurned his fledgling church plant because it didn’t have the word “Baptist” on the sign.