Various & Sundry: Monday, December 30

I’m a long time listener to the Mars Hill Audio Journal. Ken Myers recounts his intellectual pilgrimage in The Weekly Standard. (HT: Christopher Wisdom)

David Murray on “7 Ways to Stop Students Texting in Class.”

Near the end of his sordid life, pornographer Al Goldstein expressed remorse, confessing “I have been the biggest fool in the world.” Marvin Olasky writes: “Maybe that confession will help others who value the thrill of seconds and minutes, rather than the satisfaction of years and eternity, to realize they don’t want to end up the same way.”

Mark Jones on why you should be a Presbyterian, The Gospel Coalition has posted two articles on church government, one on Presbyterianism and another on Congregationalism.