Recommended Reads...

Too tired to come up with something more consequential than my last post, but feel the need to post something. So here's a handful of links collected over the last few days worth reading and thinking about (in no particular order):

• Reinventing Church...Business
• Christ Crucified
• Bad Beliefs Die Hard -- I had a similar reaction to Horton's article, glad to see a smarter man than I did, too.
• Challies asks the important question, "How Crassly Is The Church Being Used?"
• This interview with Ben Witherington isn't really that helpful, unless you read it so that you can understand Steve Hays' take on it.
• If you're following my series on Robert Millet's book (currently on hiatus), you know how much his watered-down LDS thinking bugs me. Well, apparently, it bugs at least one Latter-Day Saint--Joseph Fielding McConkie. Read this talk, The First Vision and Religous Tolerance (part 1, part 2). Great stuff--half of which I utterly agree with. The rest is from The Pit, but I'm happy to see him stand his ground. (oh, also check out this Dividing Line webcast covering the talk)