Welcome to the 221st Christian Carnival! Below you will find fascinating articles from around the blogosphere. Thank you all for coming and participating!

Journeying Forward presents From Brokenness to Wine - Let Him Squeeze posted at Journeying Forward.
---A reminder that brokenness will be made useful in the hands of our Almighty God.

David A. Porter presents The Life Changing Story of Zacchaeus posted at A Boomer in the Pew.
---David outlines his thoughts on John MacArthur's "A Sinner meets a Seeking Savior."

ChrisB presents Capital Punishment Reform posted at Homeward Bound.
---Whether you think capital punishment is acceptable, essential, or abhorrent, you can further the cause of justice by telling your legislators you want to see these simple reforms.

Alli Diller presents Is it Wrong to be in Debt? posted at God & Mammon.
---Continuing on the subject of debt, I've heard some Christians teach that it is a sin to borrow money and go into debt. One primary verse used in the argument against debt is Prov 22:7, as we discussed in the last post: "The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender."...

Diane R presents The Most Segregated Hour? Well.....Maybe Not How You Might Think posted at Crossroads: Where Faith and Inquiry Meet.
---Maybe church racial segregation talk is becoming a straw man to mask the real segregation in our churches? ... more

This week's Christian Carnival is at Imago Dei.  Everyday Liturgy's contribution this week was Finally, Prayer Beads!Highlights this week are:

Bounded Irrationality asks the question Does the Church have a role in our confession of sins?  The middle way that is suggested, of having five minutes for corporate repentence before communion, is a good baby step for Protestants weary of "confession."

Parableman discusses Open Theism and the Hardening of Pharoah's Heart, taking a story often used by open theist's to promote their view of divine foreknowledge and turns it back on its head.

The Participatory Study Blog "weighs" the definition of hypothesis as it concerns the reliability of the New Testament as an original text and suggests that weight of the documents integrity not be an all or nothing prospect---there is a median point between unreliable and completely reliable, which begs a new question (and post): what is that magical inbetween state? ... more

Welcome to the 209th edition of the one and only Christian Carnival. We at Everyday Liturgy are pleased to welcome you to the new Everyday Liturgy, a place for conversations about theological and spiritual living. This coming month we are launching our brand new journal, The Everyday Journal: Notes for Theological Living. Please make sure to drop by next Monday to view the first issue, and if you are brave enough, head on over to the Submissions page to see how you can participate in our conversation!

May God bless your stay at this week's Christian Carnival.

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:

The Christian Carnival 193 is hosted today at Ligamesh.  Highlights of the Carnival are Pseudo-Polymath's Patriotism: Eschatological or Immediate and I Timothy 2 and the Artemis Cult by more

This week's Christian Carnival is hosted at On the Horizon.  Be sure to check out some of the other posts.

Christian Carnival 190 is up at The Minor Prophet.  This week Everyday Liturgy's post was Thom's Pastors on the Fringe.  Be sure to check out this weeks posts.

This week's addition of the Christian Carnival is at The Bible Archive.  The theme for this week is the Sorting Hat (from Harry Potter, for those who don't know).

This weeks highlights include:

This week's Christian Carnival CLXXXIII is ready to view at Crossroads.  

Everyday Liturgy's submission this week was Thom's Prayer and the Unkonwn.