A couple good links I’ve come across lately. Some of these probably deserve full posts, but I’ll spare you the verbose versions and just list ‘em out:

• First Things has a lengthy post up about the “Quiverfull Christians” that Kim talked about here last month.


• “In a culture where work can be a religion, burnout is its crisis of faith”—a close look at the phenomenon of burnout; what it means and how our attitude toward it has changed over the decades. (Via Godspy.)


• The upcoming Rocky movie is being specially marketed at the “faith-based” crowd—see this piece about the themes of redemption that allegedly lurk behind all that pugilism.


• James noted earlier today that he liked the portrayal of Joseph in The Nativity Story. Cher of The Culture Beat recommends Anne Rice’s Out of Egypt for a particularly good exploration of Joseph’s character.


• This seems important: it turns out that major Christian leaders like James Dobson, TD Jakes, and Tim LaHaye are not widely known, even in the Christian community. I’ve actually wondered if I were the only one who hasn’t even heard of half the people who are supposedly out there representing Christianity to the media and government. (I’d never heard of Ted Haggard until the scandal broke.) [Hat tip: DJ Chuang.]