Links

I have returned to the blog after an enjoyable two weeks in Pennsylvania. I visited old friends and went with them to the battlefield at Gettysburg, after which I spent a week at the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference sessions held at Lancaster Bible College in the middle of Amish country.

Here are few of the posts I probably would have referenced had I been paying attention to blogs during the time away:

• Albert Mohler and Daniel Akin explain "Why We Believe Children Who Die Go to Heaven."
• Collin Hansen, author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists has posted a series about the revival of Calvinism.
• Between Two Worlds gives us "Tolkien in His Own Voice."
• InsideCatholic.com provides a list of suggested titles in "Chesterton and Lewis for Beginners."
• Peter Hitchens on the possibility that Britain could become a Muslim nation.
• Kevin DeYoung explains "Why I Baptize Babies."
• Jared Wilson lists "25 Evangelical Myths."
• RightWingBob.com links to a magnificent YouTube combining the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards pipe band peforming Amazing Grace along with scenes of Scotland.
• Wesley J. Smith on the weird and frightening views of President Obama's medical and science advisers.