Newsweek's cover story last week read "The Religious Case For Gay Marriage."  Inside, Lisa Miller's article "Our Mutual Joy" attempted to argue that the Bible actually supports gay marriage. 

Read her article here.

Two very insightful responses have already gone up from Al Mohler and John Mark Reynolds.  Rather than responding myself, I will simply point you to them. 

Al Mohler:  Turning the Bible on its Head -- Newsweek Goes for Gay Marriage

John Mark Reynolds:  An Obvious Truth: The Bible Supports Traditional Marrriage

Oxford's latest version of their Junior Dictionary has undergone a major revision.  In order to reflect the changing times, many words having to do with religion (specifically Christianity), and with a rural setting (such as certain kinds of flowers and trees) are being omitted and replaced with words like "blog" and "MP3 player."  OUP says: 

So here's the logic:  Kids are using blogs and MP3 players now, and they're not going to church anymore.  So, they know what a blog is, but they don't know what a Bishop is or what Pentecost is.  Therefore we are going to remove the definitions of words they don't know and replace them with the definitions of words they do.  This strikes me as one of those examples of someone trying to be relevant and ending up being completely irrelevant.  I didn't even grow up on blogs and MP3 players, but I would never think to look in a dictionary to find out what something new and "techy" means.  An example from my own childhood in the early 90's might be "CD" or "e-mail."  I knew what those things were (even though at the time I didn't have e-mail and I still listened to cassette tapes), I didn't need the dictionary for words like that.  I needed the dictionary to tell me what "marzipan" and "budgerigar" mean. 

Aside from that, there's also a real concern among educators in Britain about losing touch with their country's long, rich, and  very religious heritage. 

Read the full story at The Telegraph. 

(HT: Heidelblog)