Tasty Tidbits 10/11/11

On naming cats or something.
Julia Roberts eats pasta.
The silver lining of the Arab dictator cloud.
The rigged system doesn’t like being called “rigged.”
Love ya, idiot!
Mormon Mitt and American Exceptionalism.
Mystical
Paradigm shifting.
Wisdom from St. Wendell of Port Royal.

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Tasty Tidbits 10/10/11

Trendier than Thou; less devout, too.
Beauty makes a comeback?
Nicholas Kristof is not just another limousine liberal.
OWS gets its sea legs, at least a little.
New blog discovery.
Another poem touching on aging.
How extensive is the state’s imperial reach.
On writing.

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Nothing to see here. Move along now.

For whatever reason, I seem to have encountered a little writer’s block, so I won’t inflict on you my inchoate thoughts on C. Peter Wagner and the New Apostolic Reformation. Heck, I can’t even find primary sources now, though I found a few a few months ago. I’ll just say (1) it strikes me as unusually cultish and doctrinally weird, (2) it bears watching for its political aspirations, and (3) primary sources are better, if you can find them, because few in the press GetReligion (whence the need for a blog of that name).

My recollection of the primary sources is that C. Peter Wagner, formerly quite mainstream, has gone rogue and has aspirations which are alarming. The question is whether he has followers, and on that I’m quite uncertain.

Have a nice Sunday.

(To save time on preparing this blog, which some days consumes way too much time, I’ve asked some guy named @RogerWmBennett to Tweet a lot of links about which I have little or nothing to add. Check the “Latest Tweets” in the upper right pane or follow him on Twitter.)

¿Que est lo mas auténtico?

The Pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, Dr. Robert Jeffress, effusively introduced Rick Perry to the “Values Voter Summit” Friday, departing from his prepared script to add the adjective “genuine” to “follower of Jesus Christ” to describe Perry. Asked afterward if “genuine” was a swipe at Mormon Mitt, Pastor Jeffress, in a a burst of candor, called Mormonism “a cult.”

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