Christian Carnival 113—The Innovation Edition

Welcome everyone to the 113th Edition of the Christian Carnival, the Innovation Edition. The Christian Carnival is a weekly round-up of voluntarily submitted recent posts from various Christian bloggers. For more information you can click here.
Why call this week’s Carnival the “Innovation” edition? Two reasons: One, I am an ENTP Myers-Brigg Personality Type which makes me an innovator by nature. Two, I am going to try out something completely new for all the “Carnivalites” (is that a word?) out there.

Say, wouldn’t you love to be able to read all the posts submitted to the Carnival without having to click, click, click, click, click? Sure you would, and I think I have found a way to do it! Go to www.bloglines.com/login and login using the email john@lightalongthejourney.com and using the password “carnival”. Next click on the “Clippings” tab in the upper left area of the screen, and finally click on the “Clippings” folder shown below it. If you’ve done it right, wham! all the posts (hopefully) are displayed on the column on the right, just waiting for you to scroll down through them all and read to your heart’s delight. PLEASE don’t click anything else or change any settings to allow everyone to scroll through and read the posts.

There are several drawbacks to using bloglines to construct this, but I don’t know of any other way of doing it. If anybody else can figure out a simpler way, I’m sure we would all like to hear it.

And if you still want to read the posts the old-fashioned way, here they are:

Byron Harvey gives an answer to Mike Farrell who asks, “how does it affect my marriage, if two homosexuals get married?” Think a little more deeply, Mike…

Diary of a City Parishioner asks Is a Church a Banquet Hall or a House of God?

I’ve been wanting to justify being a “24″ fanatic by writing a post about it for some time, and dang if Chris Alexion hasn’t beat me to the punch in More on “24″ and ethics.

David Taylor at Disciple’s Journal gives us an old fable updated and digitized for Godbloggers in his post Aesop’s Fables for Godbloggers: The Crow and the Pitcher.

Big Cajun Man (aka Alan), at Canadian Financial Rants, presents Sunday: Reading and Lent.

At Fallible.com, Katy writes that “as the day of ashes wears on, we glance in the mirror once or twice and wonder if we should cleanse ourselves of the smudgy mark that stopped looking like a clear statement of belief hours ago” in her post Ashes for Beauty.

Brutally Honest explores that Litmus tests as who is or isn’t Christian isn’t always limited to those described as the Religious Right in this post.

Ales Rarus gives the second part of the series on natural family planning this week.

Jeremy Pierce at Parableman presents a post on Joy.

Violet at Promptings asks “If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God’s love?” in this week’s post Practical Love.

…In the Outer this week explores how choices and experiences shape us in the post Changing Lives.

Donna-Jean of Liberty and Lily shows and tells impressions of her recent trip to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to view the damage, six months after Katrina, in “To the Gulf…part 3″.

After asking, “What’s Wrong With the Church?” rev-ed at Attention Span got a response from a woman who had turned away from Christianity because of the things she saw in a local Christian church. He responds to this woman in “For Catharine.”

A portrait of Jesus wearing a leather jacket, cool shades, pierced earring and a necklace? Terry Hull at Terra Extraneus asks, “What’s Wrong With This Picture of Jesus?”

What is the right cornerstone for Christian systematic theology? What is the right foundation on which to build? And what does the Bible say about its own main theme? Heart, Mind, Soul & Strength answers the question in The Cornerstone of Christian Theology.

Xyba at Once More Into the Breach presents Begining to Read Scripture.

A Penitent Blogger this week presents Evading Justice, a reflection on the inescapable justice and the infinite mercy of God.

All Kinds of Time this week reflects on continuing to trust God with the concerns of growing older and alone with New Kinds of Old Trust.

P.I.D. Radio presents another audio post from the bunker concerning dominionism.

Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath presents Fundamentalism and Post-Modernity.

John Howell has posted number 5 in his Natural Law Series: The Four Witnesses.

Richard describes the significance of the Last Miracle in this week’s post.

Give Your All For God posts its 2nd in its series on Servant Leadership, this week on humility.

How does trusting that the Spirit of God changes the hearts of believers change the way we go about encouraging and edifying one another? Dory of Wittenberg Gate address this question in Running the Race in Grace.

This week James at Points of Light treats us to a photographic study of a reflective sculpture spurs thoughts of how limited our view of reality is, making God’s view of things even more amazing.

Christianity is Jewish presents the post Christian Freedom for this week.
Debbie at Right Truth presents Mohammed in the Bible?

Rev. Bill helps us remember the life and work of Tom Fox, Christian Peace Teams worker
whose body was recovered in Iraq last week.

CrosSwords gives us the story behind the story of a car wash this week.

The Path explores how truth is like health food in Granola for the Soul.

Laura at Pursuing Holiness presents The Right to Not Obey Islamic Law.

I hadn’t heard the subject of The Turing Test for years until Sun & Shield wrote this post this week.

News Flash! We aren’t in the Information Age anymore but the Experience Age. What is this business-wise and what effect is it having on the church? Diane at Crossroads explores this in her post The Experience Factor.

Free Money Finance presents this week the post The Poor in Proverbs.

Finally, your host website for the week humbly offers up a sampling of posts, from a Friday Funnies post about men & women, a Monday Media Meltdown featuring Bonhoeffer, a Going with God post about our demands on God, and a bible study on the Lesson of Manna.

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