Analog TV

Here in central Minnesota, there are still analog television signals broadcast.  Well, there is at least one of which I know--it is a little station, and my buddy turned me on to it today.  I don't get it here at home because I don't have access to an old-style antenna but he seems to when he unplugs his digital box.  The cool thing is that my buddy--we'll call him Mark--does not believe in the same Christ that I do; nope, he is not a Christian--Mark likes his well, we'll call them vices, too much.

Review: Brian McLaren's 'A New Kind of Christianity' | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

Review: Brian McLaren's 'A New Kind of Christianity' | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
Wow...the left-leaning though Gospel-centered-ish Christianity Today skewers Brian McLaren, the true liberal, man-centered author.

For the lay-reader without the time to be current in seminary-level discussions, take some time for an interesting, enlightening review. Scot McKnight, author of The Jesus Creed, provides a healthy and balanced critique of this new book by the Huffington Post's favorite 'evangelical' (which, in my view, means that the average American will be hearing much more of Brian McLaren).

The jist:

Unfortunately, this book lacks the "generosity" of genuine orthodoxy and, frankly, I find little space in it for orthodoxy itself. Orthodoxy for too many today means little more than the absence of denying what's in the creeds. But a robust orthodoxy means that orthodoxy itself is the lens through which we see theology. One thing about this book is clear: Orthodoxy is not central.

Scot McKnight is professor of Religion at North Park University in Chicago, Il. and the author of several books.