Another edition of “Stuff I really want to engage more, but probably will not despite my best intentions!”

Jason Clark posts on the loss of the public role of the church and asks, “(I)s there any hope or need to establish churches that reflect more than a dissolution into private clubs that reflect the tastes of their members?”  An important question that is also similar to a question Jim West also raised.  Adding to the ecclesiology topics is Lee who weighs in here regarding the “one true Church” pronouncements in Catholicism.  How can the church be the church without staking some unique claim to reality that God uses it to reveal?

The Chronicle Wired Campus Blog posts a link to an online archive of quite a bit of Darwin’s work including a first draft of Origin of Species.

James McGrath gives two books critiquing atheism a review in a duet of sorts.  Douglas Goothuis also critiques atheism here (HT: FQI).  Somewhat related, John Stackhouse discusses the nature of certainty.

I was not aware that Planned Parenthood was for-profit either.  I am not diametrically opposed to the organization, but the for-profit character kind of gives me the willies as much as making a buck off of a surgery or a necessary prescription drug does.

Rhrett Smith is launching a social networking community called Collective Muse dedicated to campus ministers and campus ministry.  Looks like a worthy endeavour that people should support.

Finally, here is a piece on the Kingdom of God that renders the reality of it in a counter-intuitive way.