Are you miss­ing my daily links posts? Me too. It means post­ing links requires heaps more effort on my part. But there’s so much good stuff out there.

Izaac* has been fight­ing the good fight — col­lat­ing sug­ges­tions for a response to athe­ist uni­ver­sity stu­dents who are pos­ter­ing cam­puses around Sydney.

Ben came out of the hip-hop closet and let us all know about his his­tory as an MC in a hip-hop posse.

There’s a pretty inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion hap­pen­ing as a fol­low up to my abor­tion post over at the Foun­tain­side.

Simone* has pointed her read­ers to another blog (Jean in all hon­esty) which is dis­cussing the use of child­care for Chris­t­ian par­ents. I refrained from com­ment­ing there because I’m a guy, and not a par­ent, but Simone’s hus­band Andrew* has put up a post where us guys can feel com­fort­able chim­ing in.

Cafe­Dave is a lit­tle blog about cafes and mar­ket­ing — so you can see why I’d like it — Dave posted his responses to the Jesus All About Life cam­paign as reported by Steve Kryger’s (very help­ful) Com­mu­ni­cate Jesus and dis­cussed by a pack of rav­ing athe­ists on mum­brella — athe­ists who can’t seem to dis­tin­guish the activ­i­ties of churches from “tax payer funded activ­i­ties” sim­ply because churches receive cer­tain tax exemp­tions. Churches are not for profit com­mu­nity organ­i­sa­tions — no not for profit com­mu­nity organ­i­sa­tions pay tax, and plenty of them (my employer included) advertise.

Recent new reader/first time com­menter Drew has a blog. It’s worth read­ing. I par­tic­u­larly like his insights into the use of a blog as a tool for get­ting things done — includ­ing get­ting things off one’s mind. I read quite a few of his posts last night while watch­ing NCIS.

Ali has a bit­ing insid­ers view on what’s wrong with legal writ­ing — I must agree, hav­ing started a law degree and been told that it’s all about plain writ­ing and then sit­ting through hours of lec­tures, read­ing case notes and hear­ing lawyers talk, I can com­pletely under­stand the sen­ti­ment behind the quote she shared.

Tim* had a go at me for giv­ing up fast food. I should have a go at him for giv­ing up gram­mar. But he makes some inter­est­ing points.

Dan* used his glo­ri­ously designed blog to reflect on a recent lec­ture on Chris­t­ian ethics and the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion deb­tate in two parts.

Byron Smith — whose name sounds sus­p­cis­ciously like Bryson Smith — has posted a really help­ful reflec­tion on par­ent­ing that cov­ers one of those lit­tle top­ics I’m toy­ing with as future post fod­der — the idea that indoc­tri­nat­ing your child is abu­sive. It’s not. As a Chris­t­ian it’s the most lov­ing thing you can do for your child.

I’m think­ing about writ­ing quite a few pieces on par­ent­ing — and this is not any kind of announce­ment — but I’m also struck by Queensland’s new sur­ro­gacy laws. On one hand they open up great pos­si­bil­i­ties for offer­ing to for­mally adopt chil­dren from those con­sid­er­ing an abor­tion, and on the other, they turn “par­ent­ing” into a right and priv­elige for every­body — rather than a respon­si­bil­ity and nat­ural out­come of being part of the arche­typal fam­ily unit. I’m not a fan of that part, but it’s not enough of an objec­tion for me to not be a fan of the whole thing. My inner prag­ma­tist realises that gay cou­ples — par­tic­u­larly women — can have chil­dren when­ever they want already, and this is, on the whole, designed to pro­tect their child, and the bio­log­i­cal father.

And for those of you won­der­ing which of my posts from the last few days I’d bother read­ing if I were you it would be these:

• The one on swear­ing oaths
• The one on abortion
• The one on commenting
• The one on per­son­al­ity tests
• The one on zombies

* Denotes peo­ple I know in the real world…

NB: The photo at the stop is com­pletely unre­lated to the post, it was just text heavy and I hadn’t posted it before. It’s from Lucinda. You should go there. I would have put up a photo of a can of Lynx, if I had one.

That is all.

Author: Nathan Campbell

Nathan runs St Eutychus. He is currently a student at the Queensland Theological College. In a previous professional life he worked in public relations for an economic development and tourism marketing organisation. He is married to Robyn. He likes coffee and the internet.

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