I’m excited to host the Christian Carnival for my second time. For my regular readers, Christian Carnival is the attempt to wrangle up the best posts of the week written from the Christian worldview. For my fellow carnies, if you don’t recognize the blog, it’s because last time I hosted on my old blog, Tale of a Kansas Girl.  Since then I’ve revamped the blog, gaining a more fitting title, Ignorant Historian.

And now to the great posts this week.

Tiffany Partin writes a convicting post about the prevelent mediocracy in relationships, both interpersonal and with God. Her post, When Mediocre Isn’t Good Enough can be found at Fathom Deep: Sounding the Depths of God.

Wickle insightfully discusses What is a “Christian Nation,” anyway? on his blog, A True Believer’s Blog.

Renae writes encouraging words for anyone who works with children inLost and Found posted at Life Nurturing Education.

Minister Mamie L. Pack uses An Umbrella as an analogy for Christ. Would you believe that my fellow kindergarten Sunday school teacher used this same metaphor this past Sunday? This post can be found at The Life I Now Live.

Obadiah Shoher take an interesting look at American freedoms in Freedom of Expression Undermines Free Speech posted at Samson Blinded.

Michelle writes about applying the hard words of Colossians 3:13 – “forgive anyone who offends you” on her blog, Thoughts and Confessions of a Girl Who Loves Jesus….

ChristianPF reports on his challenge to pray without ceasing in Short Prayers found at Christian Personal Finance Blog.

Carmen D also writes about prayer in The Miracle of Prayer posted at Pray With Beads.

Is it just for Christians to focus so much attention on abortion when thousands of American children die every year due to poor health care? Ken Brown takes up this question in Abortion, Infant Mortality and the Freedom of Choice Act on his blog, C. Orthodoxy.

FMF presents Free Money Finance: Why Christians Don’t Give posted at Free Money Finance. The median amount given to the church by a Christian? $200. A year. Wow.

If you are a follower of Jesus, you are a citizen of a kingdom that is always one generation from extinction, and you are that generation. On the other hand, you are part of a kingdom that will never die. Armed with the most relevant, life-giving message ever known to mankind, we reach out with urgency to a dying generation, yet with confidence in a living God. Andy Wood presents The Resurrection Army posted at LifeVesting.

Diane R discusses what might make up The Perfect Church, posted at Crossroads: Where Faith and Inquiry Meet.

Jeremy Rooney writes about Art of the Creche: Nativities from Around the World posted at yourchristianvoice.

At last, Barack Obama has assumed office and the United States has entered a new era. He challenges us to disagree with each other without being disagreeable and, toward that end, included a diverse and eclectic group of people to share in his inauguration ceremony and festivities. Can America rise to his challenge? Hopeful Spirit presents The New America: A Call to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable posted at On the Horizon.

Trace D writes about a family event in Our First Family Concert posted at BubbaYou.com.

GP talks about running a race, literally, in Let us each Run The Race posted at Manely Montana. Good thoughts, but I’d rather swim laps.

Annette talks to/about women: True Woman – A woman’s great loveliness posted at Fish and Cans.

Weekend Fisher takes a look at some practical examples of judging graciously, looking at times when people have been caught in situations that looked very bad, in her post “With the Measure We Use…” on her blog, Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength.

Danny looks at Hebrews 10 in his post, The Necessity of the Church for a Persevering Faith, posted at Boston Bible Geeks.

There seem to be a lot of places in the Bible where someone is obligated to do something even if they agreed to do it while being deceived about everything that was involved. Jeremy Pierce considers this in Vows and Covenants Under False Pretenses posted at Parableman.

Will Green presents A philosophical account of the gospel in pictures posted at Weblog of a Christian philosophy student.

Henry Neufeld says, “In place of my usual more theological stuff I present a short story that is a bit like a parable, a bit like an allegory, and a bit like neither. What would YOU do if a stranger called you?” His post, The Call, can be found at at Jevlir Caravansary.

Andriel writes about Emergent Deconstructionism: Hell on his blog, ReturningKing.com. It’s the 13th post in a 15 post series…wow!

Richard H. Anderson discusses Sacred Space on his blog, dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos Theophilos.

How about occupying our lives so positively that temptation can’t find any space to work with? Jody Neufeld presents Fill me up with the good stuff! posted at Jody’s Devotionals.