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For those of us who have turned 100% against Bush, this is a good balancing piece. I said when he got re-elected in ‘04 that if he was going to have any chance of a positive legacy, it would be in Africa, not Iraq.

But if we could return for a moment to the reality that his legacy will not be a good one, this is really funny.

(HT to BHT for those stories)

Sports

Steve Bernier is an immediate hit in Buffalo, scoring on his first two shots of his first game with the Sabres. Here’s the problem: Buffalo has sent the same message for the last several years – as soon as you get good, we’ll trade you. Seriously, the only way to secure a permanent position in Buffalo is to be mediocre; which is, of course, why they’ve stubbornly held onto Lindy Ruff for so long.

Arts and Entertainment

Dave Archuleta, 17-year-old American Idol competitor, makes Randall Goodgame cry. The kid’s good and all, but I’m not as enthralled by him as the rest of the world seems to be.

Editorial: Scot McKnight and Hermeneutics

If you’re tempted to throw a blanket denunciatory statement on everything “Emerging,” you need to read some Scot McKnight. I read A Community Called Atonement recently, and I highly recommend it. He’s just posted a Hermeneutics quiz, which is quite interesting. I scored as a “progressive” (70), but I’m on the more “moderate” end of the progressive score (which ranges from 66-92). Here’s what it says about how I read the Bible, which is actually pretty accurate, both in its strengths and weaknesses:

The progressive is not always progressive. Those who score 66 or more can be seen as leaning toward the progressive side, but the difference between at 66 and 92 is dramatic. Still, the progressive tends to see the Bible as historically shaped and culturally conditioned, and yet most still consider it the Word of God for today. Following a progressive hermeneutic, for the Word to speak in our day, one must interpret what the Bible said in its day and discern its pattern for revelation in order to apply it to our world. The strength, as with the moderate but even more so, is the challenge to examine what the Bible said in its day, and this means the progressives tend to be historians. But the problems for the progressives are predictable: Will the Bible’s so-called “plain meaning” be given its due and authoritative force to challenge our world? Or will the Bible be swallowed by a quest to find modern analogies that sometimes minimize what the text clearly says?

Take the quiz, put your scores in the comments!