Lots of paired articles to start off with: first, two on history and artifacts from the past:
Kyle Harper, LARB, The Emperor and the Empty Tomb: An Ancient Inscription, an Eccentric Scholar, and the Human Need to Touch the Past
Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us?
Two on the suburbs:
Ashley Hales, CT, God's Call to a Reluctant Suburbanite
James Howard Kunstler, The American Conservative, The Infinite Suburb is an Academic Joke
Two on purity culture and Josh Harris:
Abigail Rine Favale, First Things, Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye
Christine Emba, WaPo, The dramatic implosion of ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ is a lesson — and a warning
Two pretty negative profiles, of a pseudo-Christian Instagrammer, and an alt-right convert:
Laura Turner, Buzzfeed, “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message
Two pieces of Christian news of note:
Kate Shellnut, CT, CCDA President Noel Castellanos Resigns
Karen Swallow Prior, Kristie Anyabwile, & Tish Harrison Warren, CT, A New Guild Aims to Equip Women and Amplify Orthodoxy
James Howard Kunstler, The American Conservative, The Infinite Suburb is an Academic Joke
Two on purity culture and Josh Harris:
Abigail Rine Favale, First Things, Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye
Christine Emba, WaPo, The dramatic implosion of ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ is a lesson — and a warning
Two pretty negative profiles, of a pseudo-Christian Instagrammer, and an alt-right convert:
Laura Turner, Buzzfeed, “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message
Anna Silman, The Cut, We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn’t
Two against Mars exploration:
Micah Meadowcroft, The New Atlantis, Lost on Mars
Andrew Russell & Lee Vinson, Aeon, Whitey on Mars
Two on the priority of maintenance over innovation:
Andrew Russell & Lee Vinson, Aeon, Hail the Maintainers
Shannon Mattern, Places Journal, Maintenance and Care
Two on spiritual fatigue (of Wes and Jemar Tisby, respectively):
Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship, Weariness
Jon Ward, Yahoo News, In the age of Trump, tired are the peacemakers
Two on the recent midterm elections (sadly, the first piece is pretty much what one would expect from HuffPo):
Two on the recent midterm elections (sadly, the first piece is pretty much what one would expect from HuffPo):
Brandi Miller, Huffington Post, What It Means to Vote Like a Christian
Rachel M Cohen, The Intercept, Why Ben Jealous Lost the Maryland Governor's Race
Rachel M Cohen, The Intercept, Why Ben Jealous Lost the Maryland Governor's Race
Two pieces of Christian news of note:
Kate Shellnut, CT, CCDA President Noel Castellanos Resigns
Karen Swallow Prior, Kristie Anyabwile, & Tish Harrison Warren, CT, A New Guild Aims to Equip Women and Amplify Orthodoxy
Theology:
Matthew Loftus, Mere O, “Easier For People To Be Good”: Ten Theses on the Bible, Poverty, and JusticeMatthew Loftus, MereO: Doctors Without Boredom, The Paranoid Style in American Christianity
Duke Kwon, The Crux & The Call, Pharisees, Tax Collectors, and the Politics of Self-Righteousness
Chris Pappalardo, CT, This Thanksgiving, I’m Thankful for Difficult People
Willie James Jennings, Christian Century, European Christian missionaries and their false sense of progressOliver O'Donovan, First Things, Every Square Inch
Joni Eareckson Tada, CT, Suffering Helps Me See Heaven
Fleming Rutledge, Ruminations, Thoughts for the Advent season 2018
A few pieces on coming to the Church, keeping kids in it, and drawing in new members in the modern age:
BD McClay, Commonweal, Why I Came
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, TGC, Ask and You Shall Evangelize
Sharon Galgay Ketcham, CT, Why ‘Passing on the Faith’ Fails Our KidsKate Julian, The Atlantic, Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Helen Andrews, Hedgehog Review, Kicking Against the Pricks
Tim Alberta, Politico, How the GOP Gave Up on Porn
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, Anti-Porn Republicans Haven't Gone Anywhere
Left, Right, and Center all agree that Amazon is terrible:
Daniel Kishi, The American Conservative, Amazon's Great HQ2 Swindle
Veronique de Rugy, National Review, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon’s Corporate Welfare
Stacy Mitchell, The Nation, Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market
Alana Samuels, The Atlantic, Amazon’s HQ2 Will Only Worsen America’s ‘Great Divergence’
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal
A transition pair – one on how the changing nature of work is depleting its meaning, and another on how the changing nature of work is due to technology not being particularly suited to humans:
Jonathan Malesic, Hedgehog Review, When Work and Meaning Part Ways
Atul Gawande, New Yorker, Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Vincent Gabrielle, Aeon, Gamified Life
Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, Period-tracking apps are not for women
Ethan Gach, Kotaku, AIs Are Getting Better At Playing Video Games...By Cheating
Ian Leslie, 1843 Magazine, The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive
Eli Saslow, WaPo, ‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America
Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg & Jack Nicas, NYT, Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Elizabeth Picciuto, Arc Digital, Facebook’s Dangerous Push to Appease the Right
LM Sacasas, Real Life, Personal Panopticons
William A Wilson, The Weekly Standard, Acts of Creation
America, nationalism, and modern ethics:
James Poulos, Law & Liberty, Reading America from the Outside
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Policy, We Are All Isaiah Berliners Now
Reihan Salam, The Atlantic, The Virtues of Nationalism
Alan Jacobs, The American Conservative, Code Fetishists and Antinomians
TV and film reviews:
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Netflix’s Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an old West folk tale, with a signature Coen brothers twist
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, How Willem Dafoe learned to paint like Vincent Van Gogh
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, It took 46 years for Aretha Franklin’s concert doc to come out. The wait was worth it.
Maya Phillips, Slate, 'Salt Fat Acid Heat' Revolutionizes the Cooking Show
DL Mayfield, Christ & Pop Culture, The Good Place Recap: Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By (Season 3, Episode 9)
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, How Willem Dafoe learned to paint like Vincent Van Gogh
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, It took 46 years for Aretha Franklin’s concert doc to come out. The wait was worth it.
Maya Phillips, Slate, 'Salt Fat Acid Heat' Revolutionizes the Cooking Show
DL Mayfield, Christ & Pop Culture, The Good Place Recap: Don’t Let the Good Life Pass You By (Season 3, Episode 9)
Book reviews (including a profile of smart dummy Yuval Noah Harari and a nice interview with George Saunders):
Kyle David Bennett, CT, When Christian Practices Hurt Other People
Alan Jacobs, The Weekly Standard, Cartographantasies
Jake Meador, TGC, What 2018 Can Learn from 1943
Cortland Gatliff, Christ & Pop Culture, Teju Cole’s 'Blind Spot': An Antidote to Instagram Syndrome
Nellie Bowles, NYT, Tech CEOs Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer
George Saunders, LitHub, George Saunders on the Best Writing Advice He's Received
Jamie Quatro and Fire Sermon reviews:
Anthony Domestico & Jamie Quatro, Commonweal, An Interview with Jamie QuatroClaire Dederer, The Atlantic, 'Fire Sermon' Is a Profoundly Strange Meditation on Desire
Megan Nolan, The White Review, Jamie Quatro's 'Fire Sermon'
FOOD:
Kevin Alexander, Thrillist, I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
Dayna Evans, Eater, Do You Even Bake, Bro?
Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits
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