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In case you haven't already, take a few minutes to reflect upon Albert Mohler's "One Word of Truth Will Outweigh the Whole World" -- The Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn) and Chuck Colson's (w/Anne Morse) Jeremiah at Harvard: Three decades after Solzhenitsyn's speech, where do we find ourselves?).  Their pieces are a good reminder of Solzhenitsyn's prophetic word to democracy which stands true today in America and Russia.

I've mentioned Following Christ 08 several times before (e.g., N.T. Wright on the Colbert Report, Prayer for 2008-2009 Planning, Where should young emerging evangelicals turn for care and feeding), but how about a give-away of three $30 Amazon.com gift certificates. (Watch the video to learn how to enter.)

Picking up from yesterday's post Designed for Good, enjoy the video below.  May you find James Choung's material a blessing as you share the love of Christ with those to whom you have been called to live and minister among.  Note:  James' personal website is Tell It Slant

How do you [James Choung] hope this tool will change the way Christians themselves think of evangelism?

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Thank-you to Miller who passed along the link to Bible Expositor named for Urbana '09 (America's Center and the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 27-31, 2009). So who is the expositor?

Among all the congratulations for the birth of Lily Joy and questions about how our family's adjusting, we've received a variety of inquiries regarding other matters.  One missions team member of a partner congregation shared how a college student, returning from a spring of discipleship in an InterVarsity chapter, presented Carl Ellis' 4-paned window of marginalization with the young adults.  AND the missions team member wanted to know more about Ellis' work.  Why didn't the missions team member just ask the student?  Because the student has already left for a Missions Project with InterVarsity, along with several other collegians from their congregation (who by the way attend a variety of colleges and universities). 

Is that the Colbert Report? -- Theresa inquired just a few minutes ago as I played an Interview on the Colbert Report in which N.T. Wright holds his own while Stephen shares his idea of heaven as getting a harp, drinking a mint julep and asking Ronald Reagan questions ;-) Check it out.* 

BTW, looking forward to having Wright speak at Following Christ, InterVarsity's National Graduate & Faculty Ministry Conference to be held December 27-31, Marriott Magnificent Mile, Chicago, IL.  If you're an Emerging Scholar, graduate student, and/or faculty member, come join us.

Have an interest in history? Check out the Books-and-Culture article History, History, and More History, which is a report on the 2008 conference of The Historical Society. Note:  The two journals which The Historical Society publish are The Journal of the Historical Society and Historically Speaking).  Also, in case you don't already subscribe, I'd encourage you to a regular diet of weekly pieces from Christianity Today's Christian History & Biography.  I love it and share various pieces with friends, Sunday School classes, and family members (particularly around the dinner table).

PS.  Conference on Faith and History (CFH) will held in September on World History and History that Changed the World at Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio.  Anyone going?  If so, pass along what you learn.

A friend-in-ministry passed along the link to the Evangelical Political Scholars Association (EPSA).

ESPA exists to serve the Kingdom of God by facilitating interdisciplinary discussion, research and professional contact across the disciplines among evangelical Christian scholars who are interested in political life in all its dimensions - theological, philosophical and institutional, and by providing a forum in which members can provoke one another to think more biblically, more rigorously and more practically about the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men, their different natures and relationships.