Round the Sphere Again

This week's Christian Carnival is at In the Spirit of Grace. It's all done up in a road trip theme, so make sure you check that out.

Here are some things I found especially interesting in my blog reading this week:

Al Mohler writes on "A Generous Orthodoxy"--Is It Orthodox?

Allthings2all gives us The Effective Gospel as a followup to two posts on using our brains: A Missed Opportunity - or Why We Should Use Our Brains and So Why Did God Give Us An Intellect? .

At Challies.com, suggestions for an eight part test to determine music appropriate for the worship service.

The Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly recently voted down a resolution to encourage all its members and officers to remove their children from public schools. Here are two different takes on that:

• From Jollyblogger: Christians and Public Schooling, Part 1 and Part 2.
  
  
• From Buried Treasure, Blending In.

Adrian Warnock continues to post answers to ESV translation questions: How did you determine the Greek text used for translation?, How extensive will the upcoming review of the ESV be?, and "Extra" verses - how did you decided what to do with them?

Mark. D. Roberts posts Some Thoughts on Boycotts.