links for 2008-02-14

You can’t delegate hope, says Ortberg. Churches need leaders full of hope, not despair.The latter spiral downwards, he says. Where does this leave the more naturally melancholy leader?

Interview with Phyllis Tickle, in which she says we don’t merely need to read Scripture silently, we need to hear it read to us audibly. Otherwise we miss an incarnate dimension of it. We also need mystery and midrash, more than exegesis and answers.

Alan Roxburgh explores the film and novel Atonement. How do we tell the Christian story against the Nietzschean atheism of McEwan’s narrative?