Dan, you were right about Of Montreal. They do grow on you. I was listening to them in the car today and realized I was tapping my foot to the music. That's when I knew I liked them.
I did something to my knee running yesterday. Going up and down stairs is a little painful. I've had this before and I always get it when I run weird because of stiffness or soreness. I'll have to stay off it for a little while. It should be back to normal Thursday or Friday.
I've recently had a frustrating dialogue with Justin Taylor's blog, Between Two Worlds. The blog, itself, I like, but some of the people on there are hard to relate to. It's their way or the highway (the highway being hell). The link to the post is here.
JT has been a consistent critic of Tony Jones, which I understand. Their theologies are often on opposite ends of each other. But what is irritating is the way they (meaning a lot of Calvinists) ignore anything good about Jones and take anything they can critique about him and blow it out of proportion. This particular post was of Jones statements on penal substitutionary atonement, which you can read here. This post stirred up a lot of controversy so Jones has since explained himself in other posts you can find on his blog.
All that to say the Reformed community seems, at times, like an exclusive club. There are times when I feel they have an important place in the body and others when I wish they would just shut up. Of course, not every Calvinist leader in the church is like this. Far from it. But JT seems to be one of the guys who bucks at anything not Reformed, but doesn't hold the Reformed community to the standards he holds others (such as Mark Driscoll).
I don't agree with JT or Tony Jones one hundred percent. But who really cares? What irritates me is the arrogance each side can level at each other...
....Just wanted to rant about this a little.
did you accomplish the 4 mile run goal? i'm glad you are liking of montreal. i didn't like them for the first month i had them on my computer. then one day... something happened. lol
ReplyDeleteYeah I did it Sunday. If my knee stops acting up I'll do 4.5 this coming Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI don't know you, but I agree with you about both sides being unnecessarily harsh at times. However, I must say I like Driscoll (okay, I don't know him; I just like his teaching) and think he's generally a pretty good teacher and man. He's definitely become humbler over the years.
ReplyDeleteKaley, nice to meet you.
ReplyDeleteI think Driscoll speaks good truth. Recently, he did a sermon on men and the way they act towards women. There were only a few things I disagreed with but he was right on with everything else. However, where I split with Driscoll (besides Calvinism) is his attitude. He has a way of being unnecessarily controversial. In his sermon he called men idiots, fools and jokes. God knows there are men like that, but it soured the sermon.
I think if he used a calmer, more approachable tone I would listen more to what he has to say.