Matt Stone did a Church & Politics Quiz that looked interesting, so I took the test as well. My score is plotted on the graph image, which looks to be about the same as Matt’s. The quiz suggests I see the role of the church as primarily a prophetic one. Since my score is pretty much along the midpoint of the vertical axis, I’m in between “Radical Reformer,” a group which would “see a strong prophetic role for the church and combine this with a robust call for political engagement to seek social and political change” and the “Quiet Critic,” representing those who “steer away from a direct role for the church in politics, instead emphasizing the church’s purity by maintaining a separation from the state. From this perspective, the church best shares the gospel by being an alternative community that models Christian love.”
Politics & The Church
The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament
Scot McKnight’s The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible will be out soon, and reviews are beginning to appear online. I haven’t seen a copy, but the reviews are all good and it promises to be a good resource. Obviously the way in which one approaches the Bible will colour what we exegete from it, but the exegesis can be effected by how we understand that the Bible views itself.
Brain Testing (Both Halves)
Recent testing suggests that the whole left-brain/right-brain dichotomy is not as strong as previously thought. Tests which would be expected to show the brain “firing” one side or the other actually show it “firing” in multiple areas at once, and on both sides of the brain. Still and all, the distinction remains fairly pervasive, and perhaps it’s a useful way of indicating how some of our thought patterns work. There’s no denying that some people are more creative than others, and some people are more logical than others. So the online tests can still be amusing, though one kind of wants to take all of these things with a grain of salt… they’re hardly the paragon of scientific analysis one expects from a controlled environment. A while back, Peggy posted one of these and it looked entertaining. So am I a lefty or a right-y?
Challenged?
Well, I started to take up the Tall Skinny Challenge at Bible Apps. I succeeded in getting him some “company at the top,” but I have to ask how long it actually took him to amass 27,000 points! I think I’ve got to call it quits rather than work on the extra 23,000 points I’d need to edge him off the top spot. I have no illusions of knocking him off of Technorati, either ;^)
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