Weekly Plugs

Books, Videos, Resources, Websites... things I've run across that are really cool. These are my plugs.

1) Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students (J. Budziszewski)

[From Amazon.com]
Dear Professor Theophilus... Go ahead, ask.

A professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Dr. J. Budziszewski (aka Professor Theophilus) answers your piercing, real life questions—the same urgent questions he receives from students on campus or through his regular column on the webzine, boundless.org. Resolve the questions central to your identity and worldview. Ask Me Anything will help you achieve personal insight about controversial topics and defend your point of view to a skeptical world.

2) The Lamb and the Fuhrer: Great Conversations (Ravi Zacharias)

[From Amazon.com]
Destruction and Evil Meet Life and Peace Adolf Hitler spilled the blood of millions for his own sake. Jesus Christ shed his own blood for the sake of millions. Hitler set himself up as a god and the masses succumbed. Jesus Christ was God in the form of lowly man. Hitler created a living hell for the masses. Jesus endured hell to save the masses. Hitler's name is synonymous with power, evil, and genocide. Jesus' name with love, peace, and life. Put the two in a room together and you won't believe your ears. The third compelling book in Ravi Zacharias' Great Conversations series addresses fundamental issues of life and death, the evil of violence in light of the value of human life, and other tough issues in modern society.

3) NOOMA (Rob Bell)

We can get anything we want, from anywhere in the world, whenever we want it. That's how it is and that's how we want it to be. Still, our lives aren't any different than other generations before us. Our time is.

We want spiritual direction, but it has to be real for us and available when we need it. We want a new format for getting Christian perspectives.

NOOMA is the new format.

It's short films with communicators that really speak to us. Compact, portable, and concise. Each NOOMA touches onissues that we care about, that we want to talk about,
and it comes in a way that fits our world. It's a format that's there for us when we need it, as we need it, how we need it.

That's it for now... more next week.