Doing the rounds this week:

• Ellen Davis presented her inaugural lecture as the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology on October 27, 2009, at Duke Divinity School. The title of the lecture was ‘The Poetry of Care and Loss’. It is available via iTunes.
• The Thailand Burma Border Consortium compares Eastern Burma to Darfur.
• Julian Bell reviews Vincent van Gogh – The Letters (now we just need Thames & Hudson to review the price!).
• A fascinating interview with Slavoj Žižek: ‘… it’s very easy to have a radical position which costs you nothing and for the price of nothing it gives you some kind of moral superiority. It also enables them to avoid the truly difficult questions’.
• Andrew Brower Latz continues his note sharing on Alan Torrance’s 2009 Didsbury Lectures (Parts I, II and III).
• Jim Gordon reminds us why reading Bonhoeffer is ‘like engaging in a theological detox programme’.
• Kyle Strobel writes about Evangelical Idolatry.
• Rick Floyd posts on Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society.
• W. Travis McMaken, on his way into his final qualifying exam in systematic theology, shares a quote from TF Torrance on modern preaching and the god named ‘existentialist decision’.