I read this a few times:
Zachary Holbrook, MereO, The Toxic Environments of First Reformed
Revoice stuff:
Jack Bates, Bread, Wine, & Glitter, The Revoice Conference, Gender, and Desire
Matthew Lee Anderson, Mere Orthodoxy, Sex, Temptation, and the Gay Christian: What Chastity Demands
Ron Belgau, The Public Discourse, In Defense of Spiritual Friendship and Revoice
Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship, Where the World Attacks
Wesley Hill, Covenant, Why I Want to StayEthan McCarthy, Patheos, A Tenacious Witness: Reflections on the Revoice Conference
The current President:
David A Graham, The Atlantic, Trump's Remarkable Admission About DishonestyDamir Marusic, Medium, The Problem of Donald Trump Didn't Start with Donald Trump
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, Abraham Lincoln's Warning
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, America's heart of darkness
Murray Waas, NY Review of Books, Flynn, Comey, and Mueller: What Trump Knew and When He Knew It
Immigration and family separation:
Alex Wagner, The Atlantic, Extinguishing the Beacon of America
Laura Bush, WaPo, Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Lesser Cruelty on Immigration
Alex Wagner, The Atlantic, Extinguishing the Beacon of America
Laura Bush, WaPo, Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Lesser Cruelty on Immigration
Alan Noble, Buzzfeed, This Is What Happens When You Say Some People Are Animals
Dara Ling, Vox, What Obama did with migrant families vs. what Trump is doing
Dara Ling, Vox, What Obama did with migrant families vs. what Trump is doing
Matthew Walther, The Week, Why Trump country is unfazed by the child separation crisis
Megan Garber, The Atlantic, How to Look Away
Megan Garber, The Atlantic, How to Look Away
Ruth Graham, Slate, Jeff Sessions Cherry-Picked a Bible Passage to Defend Trump’s Immigration Policy
Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, The racist history of the Bible verse the White House uses to justify separating families
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Sessions invents a faith all his own
Tyler Huckabee, Relevant, Jeff Sessions and the Danger of Using the Bible Instead of Letting It Use You
Reacting to Anthony Kennedy's retirement:
Alan Noble, Medium, Initial Reaction to Justice Kennedy Retirement
Ruth Graham, Slate, Amy Coney Barrett Is Allegedly a Member of a Religious Group That’s Been Called a “Cult”
Matthew Loftus, MereO, Defending the Vulnerable Requires More Than a New Supreme Court Justice
The Christian Right's dangerous alliance with Trump. Smarsh's piece doesn't quite fit here, but it goes well with McCrummen's – they temper one another:
Ruth Graham, Slate, “The Most Dangerous Place for a Child to Be Is Inside the Womb of a Woman Inside a Planned Parenthood Clinic”
Ruth Graham, Slate, Mariia Butina’s Cozy Relationship With the Christian Right Makes Total Sense
Reacting to Anthony Kennedy's retirement:
Alan Noble, Medium, Initial Reaction to Justice Kennedy Retirement
Ruth Graham, Slate, Amy Coney Barrett Is Allegedly a Member of a Religious Group That’s Been Called a “Cult”
Matthew Loftus, MereO, Defending the Vulnerable Requires More Than a New Supreme Court Justice
The Christian Right's dangerous alliance with Trump. Smarsh's piece doesn't quite fit here, but it goes well with McCrummen's – they temper one another:
Ruth Graham, Slate, “The Most Dangerous Place for a Child to Be Is Inside the Womb of a Woman Inside a Planned Parenthood Clinic”
Ruth Graham, Slate, Mariia Butina’s Cozy Relationship With the Christian Right Makes Total Sense
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Conservatives Are Scared, Even Under Trump
Sarah Smarsh, NYT, Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About 'Trump Country'
Stephanie McCrummen, WaPo, Judgement days
John Fea, The Atlantic, Evangelical Fear Elected Trump
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, CT, Fear, Power, Nostalgia, and the 81 Percent
John Fea, The Atlantic, Evangelical Fear Elected Trump
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, CT, Fear, Power, Nostalgia, and the 81 Percent
Two articles on the recent MD primaries:
Rachel M Cohen, The Intercept, Backed by Obama Alums, a Law-and-Order Candidate Aims to Topple Progressive Leaders in Baltimore
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, Is Ben Jealous What Progressives Want?
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, Is Ben Jealous What Progressives Want?
Racial issues:
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your HealthJemar Tisby, The Witness, Why Juneteenth Should Be a National Holiday
Leilani Clark, CivilEats, Black Churches, Powerful Cultural Forces, Set Their Sights on Food Security
Environmental issues:
Roy Scranton, NYT, Raising My Child in a Doomed World
Jedidiah Purdy, Boston Review, The New Nature
Nathaniel Rich, NYT Mag, Losing Earth
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, The Problem With The New York Times’ Big Story on Climate Change
Jedidiah Purdy, Boston Review, The New Nature
Nathaniel Rich, NYT Mag, Losing Earth
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, The Problem With The New York Times’ Big Story on Climate Change
The triumphant return of the TECH EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE section:
Edward Mendelson, NY Review of Books, In the Depths of the Digital Age
Jeffrey Bilbro, Front Porch Republic, Restoring Trust in the Aftermath of Anti-Social Media
Noah Kulwin, New York Mag, ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, The Death of the Public Square
Adam J White, The New Atlantis, Google.gov
LM Sacasas, The New Atlantis, The Tech Backlash We Really Need
Gracy Olmstead, The Week, Facebook is broken. Let's all fix it together.
Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo, When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life
Erika Christakis, The Atlantic, The Dangers of Distracted Parenting
Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian, 'This is awful': robot can keep children occupied for hours without supervision
A bunch of cultural and political criticism not as directly related to the immediate political scene:
David Dark, Books & Culture, The Gospel According to America
Ryan Hammill, MereO, Against the Sterile Style
Coleson Smith, Comment, Beerbelly Elegy
Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian, 'This is awful': robot can keep children occupied for hours without supervision
A bunch of cultural and political criticism not as directly related to the immediate political scene:
David Dark, Books & Culture, The Gospel According to America
Ryan Hammill, MereO, Against the Sterile Style
Coleson Smith, Comment, Beerbelly Elegy
BD McClay, Hedgehog Review, Virtue Signaling
Phil Christman, Hedgehog Review, What Is It Like to Be a Man?
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, What two fictional Gileads can teach us about America in 2018
Alan Jacobs, The Guardian, To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth'
Rachel Wiseman, The Point, Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless
Talia Lavin, Village Voice, The Moral Case for Incivility
Melvin Rogers, Boston Review, Democracy Is a Habit: Practice It
Christopher Lebron, The Nation, Up From Rawls
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, What Can We Learn From Utopians of the Past?
Rachel Wiseman, The Point, Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless
Talia Lavin, Village Voice, The Moral Case for Incivility
Melvin Rogers, Boston Review, Democracy Is a Habit: Practice It
Christopher Lebron, The Nation, Up From Rawls
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, What Can We Learn From Utopians of the Past?
Emily Rose Gum, Comment, Recovering an Institutional Imagination
James Davison Hunter & James KA Smith, Comment, The Backdrop of Reality
Lydialye Gibson, Harvard Magazine, The Democracy of Everyday Life
John Thornton, Jr, Commonweal, Under Pressure
More criticism, of literature, music, and film:
Haley Stewart, Church Life Journal, Alasdair MacIntyre Reads Jane Austen Reading Her Late Modern Reader
Kira Thurman, The Point, Singing Against the Grain: Playing Beethoven in the #BlackLivesMatter era
Trevor Quirk, The Point, The Pieces Fit: Tool's Cult of Meaning
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Paul Schrader on First Reformed: “This is a troubling film about a troubled person”
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, The real reason we need more diversity in film criticism
Francey Russell, Boston Review, Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy
Megan N Liberty, Hyperallergic, The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk
Ange Mlinko & Peter Mishler, LitHub, A Lot of My 'Process' Is Just Mucking About
Danny Heitman, Humanities, The Messy Genius of WH Auden
Emily Dreyfuss, Wired, Sacha Baron Cohen's Fake Conspiracy Site is Fully Post-Parody
Scott Timberg, LA Review of Books, The Bad Idea That Keeps On Giving
David Kolitz, The Outline, Academics Explain David Foster Wallace To Me
Walker Percy, man of the moment:
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Liberty & Law, Living as an Ex-Suicide
Randall S Rosenberg, Church Life Journal, Walker Percy and the Racist Tragedy of Southern Stoicism
Randall S Rosenberg, Church Life Journal, Walker Percy and the Racist Tragedy of Southern Stoicism
Brian A Smith, The American Conservative, Walker Percy and the Gift of Influence
DL Mayfield, InTouch Ministries, The Ministry of Lament
Karen Swallow Prior, TGC, Christian Hospitality in an Age of ‘They’re Not Welcome Anymore, Anywhere’
Amanda Wortham, Christ & Pop Culture, How Mr Rogers's Analog Show Speaks to Us in a Digital Age
Jake Meador, MereO, The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way: Against the Culture War
Rachel Gilson, Christ & Pop Culture, David Foster Wallace and Worship in the #MeToo World
Derek Rishmawy, TGC, You Want a God of Judgement
Jasmine Holmes, Fathom, So You Hate Biblical Womanhood
Jasmine Holmes, Fathom, So You Hate Biblical Womanhood
Kaitlyn Scheiss, Christ & Pop Culture, Ben Myers's The Apostles' Creed Reminds Us of Our Roots
BD McClay, Commonweal, Problems Like Maria
Dante Stewart, CT, Why the Enslaved Adopted the Religion of Their Masters – and Transformed It
BD McClay, Commonweal, Problems Like Maria
Dante Stewart, CT, Why the Enslaved Adopted the Religion of Their Masters – and Transformed It
Cameron McAllister, Christ & Pop Culture, When Your ‘Story’ Gets in the Way of Your Testimony: Lessons from Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering
Alan's book Disruptive Witness came out this month:
Alan Noble, CT, How to Witness to a Distracted World
Alan Noble, Fathom, Disruptive Conversations
Lauren M Fabrycky, Fathom, Bearing Witness In a Distracted World
Justin Bailey, In All Things, Bearing Witness in a TLDR World: A Review of “Disruptive Witness”
Jonathan Merritt, Jonathan Merritt on Faith & Culture, The Christian Call to be Culturally Disruptive?
Alan Noble, CT, How to Witness to a Distracted World
Alan Noble, Fathom, Disruptive Conversations
Lauren M Fabrycky, Fathom, Bearing Witness In a Distracted World
Justin Bailey, In All Things, Bearing Witness in a TLDR World: A Review of “Disruptive Witness”
Jonathan Merritt, Jonathan Merritt on Faith & Culture, The Christian Call to be Culturally Disruptive?
Some paired pieces that didn't fit well elsewhere: 2 from Taffy; 2 on American waste and wealth; 2 on #PlaneBae; 2 on translation; 2 on the shortcomings of modern sexual activism:
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, NYT Mag, Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, NYT Mag, How Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million
Matthew Walther, The Week, American wasteland
Micah Meadowcroft, National Review, Riches Unto Death: Poverty Is a Lack of More Than Money
Megan Garber, The Atlantic, Two Strangers Met on a Plane – and the Internet Ruined It
Ella Dawson, elladawson.com, We Are All Public Figures Now
Burke Gertenschlager & Ed Simon, LA Review of Books, Groping Towards Each Other In a Common Mist
Rachel Hadas, Literary Matters, On Translation
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Handmaids of Capitalism
Brandon McGinley, First Things, Her Name Is Monroe Christine
Brandon McGinley, First Things, Her Name Is Monroe Christine
Individual pieces that didn't fit elsewhere:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, America, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reformPhilip Jenkins, Patheos, Faith, Fertility, and the Fate of American Religion
Grace Akello, LSE Africa, From ‘saved’ to secularised: the challenges facing former LRA fighters after reintegration into their communities
Annie Lowery, The Atlantic, Are Stock Buybacks Hurting the Economy?
Alan Jacobs, Weekly Standard, Understanding the Beautiful Game
Matthew Loftus, Plough, The Medicated Soul
