25 most influential Evangelicals in America

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Next week’s TIME Magazine has a cover about Evangelicals, with a photo essay of the top 25 influentials, and articles titled The Democrats: Trying out a more soulful tone and What Does Bush Owe the Religious Right?

To save you the bandwidth of clicking through, here’s the list (alphabetical order):

• Howard & Roberta Ahmanson: The Financiers
• David Barton: The Lesson Planner
• Doug Coe: The Stealth Persuader
• Chuck Colson: Reborn and Rehabilitated
• Luis Cort?s: Bringing Latinos To the Table
• James Dobson: The Culture Warrior
• Stuart Epperson: A High-Fidelity Messenger
• Michael Gerson : The President’s Spiritual Scribe
• Billy & Franklin Graham: Father and Son In the Spirit
• Ted Haggard: Opening Up the Umbrella Group
• Bill Hybels: Pioneering Mass Appeal
• T.D. Jakes: The Pentecostal Media Mogul
• Diane Knippers: A Think Tank With Firepower
• Tim & Beverly LaHaye: The Christian Power Couple
• Richard Land: God’s Lobbyist
• Brian McLaren: Paradigm Shifter
• Joyce Meyer: A Feminine Side Of Evangelism
• Richard John Neuhaus: Bushism Made Catholic
• Mark Noll: The Intellectual Exemplar
• J.I. Packer: Theological Traffic Cop
• Rick Santorum: The Point Man On Capitol Hill
• Jay Sekulow: The Almighty’s Attorney-at-Law
• Stephen Strang: Keeper of “The Faith”
• Rick Warren: America’s New People’s Pastor
• Ralph Winter: A Global Mission

GodBlogCon 2005 in the works

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GodBlogCon 2005, the Christian Blogosphere Convention, is fixin’ to happen around the October 2005 timeframe in Mesa, Arizona. GodBlogCon 2005 latest updates will be at SmartChristian.com and intercessory prayers are being collected & offered at the GodBlogCon Prayer Blog. Keynote speakers are being booked as we speak.

After being graciously profiled by SmartChristian,
I was appointed (or inadvertently drafted, depending on your
perspective) as the Live Blogger for GodBlogCon. If I can get there,
I’d be happy to do it, and sport my “I’m blogging this” T-shirt. Hugh
Hewitt’s book, Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, has been designated as a reading prerequisite.

And, wondering out loud, will they make room for the emerging church blogosphere with the likes of PlanetEmergent.org and A-listers like JordonCooper.com, TallSkinnyKiwi, JenLemen.com, Willzhead, UrbanOnramps, Emergesque, et al? And who can forget Tim Bedner of e-church.com, the blogger interviewed in Christianity Today / Leadership Journal for predicting the next revival to come via the Web?

[update: SmartChristian.com has since added a number of tracks, including one for the emerging church, as well as a broad range of Christians like Catholics and Orthodox]

joy and capitalism compatible?

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“You put peanut butter in my chocolate!
You put chocolate in my peanut butter!” Can personal joy & delight,
strong work ethic, and capitalism really be compatible? Virginia
Postrel’s reading of Bolles’ classic “What Color Is Your Parachute?” think so.

This sound bite is from dynamist.com’s blog entry Finding Your Calling, excerpted from original submission to NYT Book Review article:

That
message makes Parachute not only practical but intellectually
contrarian. Protestantism, claimed Weber, divested work of its earthly
delight, making it purely a religious duty. Capitalism, he continued,
“has destroyed” that delight “forever.”

What Color Is Your
Parachute? is an extended, market-grounded argument that Weber was
wrong. A century after The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism was published, the best-selling book about job hunting is an
explicitly Protestant guide to finding joy at work.

Having
read (portions of) a previous edition of that book, I find my joyful
work to be elusive of capital, b/c an underlying assumption is that the
real world (marketplace) wants to economically & financially reward
me for the kind of work I love to do. Not so, when the stuff I love to
do is not measurable outcomes or deliverables; yet I would like to have
measurable economic gain.

Keller crazed

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I struck gold while googling tonight. Found an extended transcript of a number of Tim Keller’s messages – labeled as: KELLER ON PREACHING IN A POST-MODERN CITY: Preaching To Create Spiritually Inclusive Worship.

I
particularly like this sound bite: “In general, periodicals are more
important than books.” This is in the context of how to keep up with
trends and the cultural pulse, so that you can speak in an engaging
manner and enter people’s stories (my words, not his). And, I do like
magazines more than books.

[updated: the source is actually The Movement e-newsletter of the Redeember church planting center, where it's online more colorfully as part 1 and part 2;
and lots of other great articles by Tim Keller that'll need to be
deep-linked at my Keller page one day. While over there, also found DECONSTRUCTING DEFEATER BELIEFS: Leading the Secular to Christ, after all, Jesus is the ultimate deconstructionist] [thanks to Chad]