First, the news:
Angie Brown, BBC News, Nursing mother smashes 268-mile Montane Spine Race record
Carlotta Gall, NYT, Ukrainian Orthodox Christians Formally Break From Russia
Laura Snapes, The Guardian, Martin Scorsese to direct film about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue
Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans, Religion News Service, Small-town Christian bookstore owners keep faith despite an uncertain future
Evan Tucker, Baltimore Fishbowl, What Baltimore loses if the BSO is forced to cut its schedule
And the world news:
Janine di Giovanni, Harper's, The VanishingDanny Gold, Longreads, The Redemption of MS-13
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Commentary, The Yellow Rise in Paris
Fraser Myers & Cristophe Guilluy, Spiked, ‘The gilets jaunes are unstoppable’
Gina Dalfonzo, Mere O, Book Review: The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers
Alan Jacobs, Snakes & Ladders, Science and the Good
Josephine Livingstone & Jeet Heer, New Republic, Changing Our Minds
Micah Meadowcroft, Washington Free Beacon, Hospitable on Purpose
Chad Wellmon, Comment, The Year of Whose Lord?
Alan Jacobs, Snakes & Ladders, Humans, humanity, humanism
Kathryn Freeman, CT, Can We Handle the Truth About Racism and the Church?
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians
Robert Sullivan, NY Review of Books, The Ministry of Mr Rogers
Molly Brigid McGrath, Law & Liberty, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Frontier Anthology
DL Mayfield, Christ & Pop Culture, The Good Place Recap: The Book of Dougs & Chidi Sees a Time Knife (Season 3, Episodes 10 & 11)
DL Mayfield, Christ & Pop Culture, The Good Place Recap: “Pandemonium” (Season 3, Episode 12)
DL Mayfield, Christ & Pop Culture, The Good Place Recap: The Book of Dougs & Chidi Sees a Time Knife (Season 3, Episodes 10 & 11)
DL Mayfield, Christ & Pop Culture, The Good Place Recap: “Pandemonium” (Season 3, Episode 12)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, NYT Mag, Marie Kondo, Tidying Up and the Ruthless War on Stuff
Rachel Gilson, Desiring God, Does She Spark Joy? Sorting Through Marie Kondo
Myles Werntz, Mere O, The Burden of Parenting: In Praise of Christian Simplicity
Brad East, Mere O, God and All Things in God: The Theology of John Webster
Peter J Leithart, Mere O, John Milbank: A Guide for the Perplexed
Gregory Thompson, Comment, The Friend We Need but Do Not Want: Martin Luther King, Jr
Jane Brox, Aeon, Disturbing the Silence
Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, Conservative Evangelicals Attempt to Disentangle Their Faith from TrumpismJane Brox, Aeon, Disturbing the Silence
Robert Pogue Harrison, NY Review of Books, The Prophet of Envy
Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, Follow a day in the life of a theme-park Jesus
George Dyson, Edge, Childhood's End
Chad Dickerson, Personal Blog, Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email
Nicholas Carr, LARB, Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
McKenzie Wark, Public Seminar, The weird global media event
Ashley Feinberg, Huffington Post, Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
Zeynep Tufecki, NYT, Adventures in the Trump Twittersphere
Cultural criticism:
Justin E H Smith, The Point, It's All Over
Anne Helen Peterson, Buzzfeed, How Millennials Became the Burnout GenerationJohn Hamburger, The Point, What Was New Atheism?
Meghan O'Geiblyn, Paris Review, Objects of Despair: Fake Meat
Martyn Wendell Jones, Imprint Mag, The Hungry Teeth of the Ages
Jason Ā Josephson-Storm, The New Atlantis, Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?
Rowan Moore Gerety, The Atavist, The End of Forever
DL Mayfield, Plough, What's the Good of a School?Brad East, Comment, The Church and the Common Good
On caring for the vulnerable:
Sarah C Williams, Plough, Perfectly HumanFrederica Mathewes-Green, National Review, When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense
Sarah Quezada, InTouch, Above All Earthly Rule
John Thornton, Sojourners, The Suffering We Scroll Past
Politics:
Charles Duhigg, The Atlantic, The Real Roots of American RageDamir Marusic, The American Interest, Making Up Monsters to Destroy
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Women Are Not a Monolith
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, The Daily Scripture Feed
Elizabeth Bruenig, Medium, Only Burgers Forever Now
Elaina Plott, The Atlantic, An Obscure White House Staffer’s Jaw-Dropping Trump Tell-All
Matthew Yglesias, Vox, Elizabeth Warren’s book, The Two-Income Trap, explained
Lexington, The Economist, John Kasich, conservative orphan
Rachael Bade & Heather Caygle, Politico, Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez
Timothy Shenk, Dissent, Right Privilege
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, A Better Way to Look at Most Every Political Issue
Theology and Christian Life:
Fleming Rutledge, Ruminations, Whose life is it? and whose death?
Fleming Rutledge, Christian Century, Living water isn't just a metaphor
Julie Canlis, CT, The Bible's Best Description of Salvation Is a Phrase We Rarely Use
Lamin Sanneh, Christian Century, Christian missions and the Western guilt complex
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 4 competing theories on the theological meaning of Easter
Brandon D Smith, Mere O, Loving Others Theologically
Brad East, Marginalia, Systematic Theology and Biblical Criticism
Brad East, Marginalia, Systematic Theology and Biblical Criticism
Wesley Hill, Covenant, Cruciform Epiphany
Wesley Hill, Covenant, What Makes Romans So Powerful
Tish Harrison Warren, The Point, True Story
Wesley Hill, Covenant, What Makes Romans So Powerful
Tish Harrison Warren, The Point, True Story
Somewhat paired articles – two kind of about bodies (sober musicians and a rich guy who wants to live forever); two about work (the trendy artisanal movement, and a desert monastery with a surprising relation to the internet); two on science (a bizarre signal from space and how beauty subverts utilitarian understandings of evolution); two curmudgeonly articles complaining about kids these days (one of feminism and #MeToo, and one on the secularization of language); two about stories (sad stories and local ones):
Chris Heath, GQ, Creating While Clean
Rachel Monroe, Men's Health, The Bulletproof Coffee Founder Has Spent $1 Million in His Quest to Live to 180
Ryan Avent, 1843 Mag, Crafting a Life
Jonathan Malesic, Commonweal, Taming the Demon
Marina Koren, The Atlantic, What's Better Than One Mysterious Cosmic Signal?
Ferris Jabr, NYT Mag, How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
Katherine Kersten, First Things, False Feminism
Ewa Thompson, Modern Age, The Great Amputation: Language in the Postmodern Era
KB Hoyle, Christ & Pop Culture, Storied: The Compelling Hopefulness of Sad Stories
S Dorman, Mere O, Living Local Fiction
Chris Heath, GQ, Creating While Clean
Rachel Monroe, Men's Health, The Bulletproof Coffee Founder Has Spent $1 Million in His Quest to Live to 180
Ryan Avent, 1843 Mag, Crafting a Life
Jonathan Malesic, Commonweal, Taming the Demon
Marina Koren, The Atlantic, What's Better Than One Mysterious Cosmic Signal?
Ferris Jabr, NYT Mag, How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
Katherine Kersten, First Things, False Feminism
Ewa Thompson, Modern Age, The Great Amputation: Language in the Postmodern Era
KB Hoyle, Christ & Pop Culture, Storied: The Compelling Hopefulness of Sad Stories
S Dorman, Mere O, Living Local Fiction
Miscellaneous:
Marin Alsop, NPR, Finding God, Love And The Meaning Of Life In Messiaen's 'Turangalîla-Symphonie'
Megan Garber, The Atlantic, The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy
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