I don't know how I missed this but I did.  A month ago the iMonk reviewed Kelly Monroe Kullberg's new book and it's a great review.

A quick highlighting of Jack Yoest's appropriation of Tom McMahon's marketing matrix for branding. Low Love, High Love are on one axis, and Low Respect and High Respect are on the other.

Jack suggests that if we think of marriage in these terms we should be located in the quadrant labelled High Love, High Respect.

CGO Contributors and readers in Virginia-DC-Maryland:

Please welcome Joe Carter to the area.  Joe runs the Evangelical Outpost and has been living in Chicago working for the Council on Bioethics.  He is taking a new job in DC and has recently moved.

It seems a bit silly to say, "Check out his blog (here)" when Evangelical Outpost is one of most known, most read Christian blogs of all. 

You can find his email on his blog and welcome him.  Read more

[Editor's Note: This post is another in our occasional series called "Collegiate Fridays" in which college students write about some aspect of learning and living the Christian story on campus. 

Today's post comes from Joel Pastor, who is involved with RUF at the University of Oklahoma
where CGO Contributor Doug Serven pastors.]

The awkward silence continues. Adopting what is meant to be an organized and purposeful expression, I flip a page on my legal pad as though perusing a carefully formulated lesson plan.

Four of us are sitting in the downstairs student lounge of the Honors Dorm amidst a bible study: the passage is Matthew 5:17-20, I’m the ‘leader’, and the lesson plan at which I am pretending to glance is actually several pages of completely irrelevant notes from Greek class. Not that I didn’t put time into preparing for the study. On the contrary, the present effort comes after two hours of staring at the text and wracking my brain to formulate a couple decent questions, all to no avail.

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