In an effort to spur greater volume here, I will be attempting to generate larger amounts of shorter pieces (as spellbound as I'm sure you all are by multi-page book reviews and feature-length analysis of debates on the Mosaic law). To that end, I introduce Saturday's installment, "internet roundup", which will be a brief breakdown of amusing, alarming, awesome (and alliterative) miscellany I found interesting on the 'web. Not all of this (or even most of it, depending) is guaranteed to be relevant to theology. Some of it may just be nonsense. Amount of stuff will vary based on how boring (or busy) the week goes. Without further ado, Notes from the Shore brings you it's first ever "Internet Roundup", which will focus on sites (many of which I have already linked to here) from which I draw material and read every day.
1) Sermon audio is a vast database of sermon material from just about every English-speaking location and theological perspective under the sun. It has the added benefit of hosting many of the world's best theology podcasts. The website is no frills, and the content is free. Lets you never go a day without hearing the word of God preached, should you so choose.
2) Amazon has blessed the world with the free Kindle app, which turns any laptop or smartphone into a Kindle for reading e-books for free (although on phones, the multi-MB book files will eat up a lot of storage). With one-click purchasing at shipping-free, vastly reduced prices, anyone looking for a specific title, or general category of reading material should look at Amazon before trying to order a paper copy (with all apologies to "traditional readers".)
3) Doug Wilson's blog, aka Blog and Mablog, features not only great puns like the one it's title, but due to the controversy associated with the author (if you google his name, you will get bonus hate blogs galore), will fulfill your duty to annoy a liberal every day you read it. He is, as they say, my spirit animal.
4) The Heidelblog, by R. Scott Clark, and it's accompanying podcast, will give you the daily dose of historical theology from the "TR" perspective. Despite my disagreements with Dr. Clark, don't neglect this blog, especially if you're a postie, as it will give a fair and balanced Amil slant on the Reformed universe.
5) Pulpit and Pen, a ministry of Montana pastor JD Hall and his friends, is a "watchblog" predominantly concerned with issues relevant to the SBC. That being said, my grave concerns about the upstream waters feeding the 'casts eschatological pool (to say nothing of my...lack of affinity for the Baptist tradition) have cut me out of the loop of the Pulpit and Pen Program for a while now. Still relevant for those who have an ear to the ground on the goings on in American Baptist life. Also a great source of JD Hall audio sermons, which are typically stellar, and often more balanced than his podcast material. Trigger warning attached for continuationists.
6) Christ the Center is a podcast (one among several) of Reformed Forum, and my pick for general Reformed podcast to listen to on a weekly basis. It covers a wide variety of topics, and doesn't come from an apologetic bent (for that, see item 7), but rather deals with theology generally. For personal edification in the way of Reformed theological education across a broad spectrum, this can't be beat.
7) Alpha and Omega Ministries, aka Dr. James White and his friend Rich Pierce, were instrumental to my journey back over the Tiber. This is to my mind, the number one Reformed apologetics ministry and podcast on the web. If you are in the trenches defending the faith in your home and work life, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
8) Bible Gateway is my go-to for online Bibles. It has almost every relevant English Translation, and foreign language translations, and lets you view them in parallel commentary.
9) The American Vision is the blog of Joel McDurmon and company, and therefore the heir in the blogosphere to the work of Rushdoony and North, with occasional contributions from Gary DeMar. Essential to an understanding of the goings-on in contemporary Theonomic/Dominionist thought.
10) White Horse Inn is the podcast of Michael Horton, and I would describe as the "Westminster West" podcast. Makes a good companion to the Heidelblog, particularly regarding theology of the two Kingdoms, and eschatology.
11) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a webcomic I often link to on Facebook. Depending on your workplace, it may not be professionally appropriate. On top of tickling my funny bone, I link it here because it occasionally stumbles onto deep insight (from the Theistic perspective) into the mind of the anti-theist Westerner.
12) The Calvinist International is a website purporting to promote "Reformed catholicity", and is from a far more philosophical bent than some of the other links in this list. Also worthy of checking out is Wedgewords, by a contributor to this site, has some secular history articles and updates infrequently, but is worth a look through.
That's all for now, check in next Saturday for more good stuff from the 'net.
In Christ,
~JS
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