This week Chasing the Wind hosts the Two Hundred and Eighth Christian Carnival.  Everyday Liturgy's contribution was Thom's Elder not Old.

Top three entries of the week:

Diane R. presents We Are Too!...So There! posted at Crossroads: Where Faith and Inquiry Meet, saying, ''Many younger Christian leaders today are criticising the evangelical church for it's recent history of neglecting the poor. But what do you think we've been doing for the past 100 years?''
This post is interesting mainly because it confuses the whole emergent concept of helping the poor.  Emergents are tired of the Evangelical/Modernist concept of helping poor people because in most instances that consists of throwing capital and material at poor people and patting ourselves on the back.  Emergents want to be incarnational, not bankers of second hand stuff from suburban Christians.  So there!

Shaun Connell presents Cosmological Argument posted at Rational Christianity, saying, ''Explains why the natural requires a supernatural first cause.''
For those of us who have been so involved in deconstruction and post-modernism that we forget what it is we are rejecting...here is a post about God as the First Cause.  Shaun presents a telling example of Platonism as the metanarrative inserted over Christianity in order for cosmology to make sense...but that metanarrative of the Uncaused Cause is just waiting to be deconstructed!

Steven Krager presents What Kanye teaches us about culture and values posted at faithdoubt, saying, ''Can Kanye West teach us about culture and values?''
Steven takes a look at consumerism and faith through a Kanye West song.  Enough said...