Summer Break

I'm taking a break from the Plunder Pile for the summer, but anyone can feel free to use or revamp it in any way that they'd like. Prizes for the 2009 to 2010 school year go to Dan for the post with the most views, Natalie for the longest post with the most links (a category snatched out of my hands at the 11th hour), Mr. Kearns for the best line (Who wouldn't want to fly into the sunset with a warrior queen at his back, leading and protecting his people from the skies and sleeping in a gigantic tree?), and Donald Miller for generating the most non-virtual community dialogue. I've heard exciting rumors of others planning to join the authorship next year. I'm so glad Sarah, Dave and Natalie managed to keep this past couple months from being a complete theological geek fest.

With the summer upon us, seeing some of our alumni hanging around the school has been wonderful. Ben Brown recently sent me a link to this frisky post by Doug Wilson: "It is assumed that where creation is thick—where the music is glorious, the beer stout, the women beautiful, the lawns rich, the architecture splendid, and so on—it presents a greater temptation to idolatry than where someone has mixed the paint thinner of ascetic striving into the created order in order to avoid the idolatrous distractions. But this does not work."

This means, I think, that enjoying your rich lawns as God's good gift is the best way to prevent idolatry.