Everything I read online in February 2019

To start off, here are several articles about perspectives on abortion: 
Megan McArdle, WaPo, What the push for legal-until-birth abortion tells us about the abortion debate
Alexandra DeSanctis, The Atlantic, Democrats Overplay Their Hand on Abortion
Abigail Favale, Church Life Journal, Confessions of a Feminist Heretic
Mary O'Callaghan, Church Life Journal, The Devastating Fallout from Prenatal Testing
Sarah Klitenic Wear, First Things, The Ancients on Abortion
Matthew Lee Anderson, CT, Infanticide Debate Reflects a New Era for Abortion Politics

And some articles on somewhat related issues of gender, sex, and life rights:
Christopher Shannon, Front Porch Republic, Gender Is a Social Construct
Russell Moore, Personal Blog, Southern Baptists and the Scandal of Church Sexual Abuse
Christopher de Bellaigue, The Guardian, Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?

And more sex! Three responses to NBW, a personal story of same-sex attraction, and a reply to critics of Catholic celibacy requirements:
Joshua Heavin, MereO, A Christian Ethic of Sex in a Pornographic Age
Wesley Hill, CT, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Gospel of Shame-Free Sexuality
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, The Church Made Vagina Sculptures Long Before Nadia Bolz-Weber
Rachel Gilson, CT, I Never Became Straight. Perhaps That Was Never God’s Goal.
Ross Douthat, NYT, Why Celibacy Matters

Also somewhat related, some parenting pieces (on adoption, fatherly commitment, and children's relationship with technology):

Ashley Fetters, The Atlantic, The Hardship of a Very Open Adoption
Anna Machin, Aeon, The marvel of the human dad
Pamela Paul, NYT, Let Children Get Bored Again

Parents need the right ordering of priorities to balance their work and households, and public policy is a tool that should be used to allow for these rightful balances:

Hannah Anderson, Public Justice Review, Cultivating a Work-Wise Family
Candice Gormley, Shared Justice, Time to Care: Joy, Rest, and Recovery
Matthew Loftus, Shared Justice, Time to Care: Time to Heal

In a similar way, urban planning has an effect on how practical (or even possible) it is to be a parent in a city:

Nolan Gray & Lyman Stone, CityLab, How ‘Vasectomy Zoning’ Makes Childless Cities
Alia Wong, The Atlantic, Cities Aren't Built for Parents
Claire Tran, CityLab, Accessibility Advocates Rally Over Mother’s Death on Subway Stairs

Modern politics and ethics: 

Bonnie Kristian, The Week, Our political obsession with shame
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, What the Liam Neeson case teaches us about evil

Samuel James, National Review, We're All Fundamentalists Too

Ewwww...more politics:

Emma Green, The Atlantic, These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble
Raymond Bonner, The Atlantic, America's Role in El Salvador's Deterioration
Andrew G McCabe, The Atlantic, Every Day Is a New Low in Trump's White House

What is the Church? Reflections on liturgical and worship practices, Hillsong, celebrity evangelicals, and our understanding the ekklesia itself:

Andrew Wilson, CT, Our Churches Are Either Sacramental or Charismatic

Kathryn Watson, The Curator, The He(art) of Worship
Laura Turner, Vox, The rise of the star-studded, Instagram-friendly evangelical church
Krish Kandiah, Church is a Family, Not an Event

Two pieces on the recent United Methodist vote to preserve traditional marriage (a good overview of the situation and a plea from an African Methodist to allow their [traditional] beliefs to be allowed a voice among the widely American progressives):
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church
Jerry B Kulah, Juicy Ecumenism, African United Methodists Won’t Trade Bible for Dollars

Theology:

Joshua Heavin, MereO, On Theological Education and the Church’s Health
Viktor J Toth & Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, CT, ‘A Theology of Everything’ for a Pluralistic World
Brad East, Commonweal, The Specter of Marcion
Jen Pollock Michel, CT, Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice.
Alstair Roberts, Theopolis Institute, Learning Wisdom From the Serpents

David Mathis, Desiring God, Here I Raise My Ebenezer
Justin Frank, Mere O, The Real Place for Conflict: On Keeping Controversy Close to Home

Church-related profiles and interviews:

Matthew Loftus, CT, Why a Compassionate Baptist Pastor Led a Revolution

Rodney Clapp & Eugene Peterson, CT, Eugene Peterson: A Monk Out of Habit
Philip Hoare, New Statesmen, John Ruskin: a prophet for our troubled times

Jemar Tisby & Wesley Hill, Comment, The Future of Church-Race Relations

David Heim & Kathryn Tanner, Christian Century, Can Christianity be a counterforce to finance capitalism?

BOOKS:
Tara Ann Thieke, Front Porch Republic, The American Bookstore: Prologue
Jeffrey Bilbro, Front Porch Republic, Fierce Velleity: Poetry as Antidote to Acedia
Mary McCampbell, TGC, 8 Works of Contemporary Fiction Christians Should Read
Trevin Wax, TGC, Reading When You're Really Busy
Mairead Small Staid, Paris Review, Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
Haley Stewart, Church Life Journal, The Wayward Daughters
Amanda Wortham, CxPC, Tethered to the World: Remembering Mary Oliver
Rebecca Onion, Slate, Wild and Precious Life

Book-adjacent – Did Obama's bookishness have any effect on his willingness to engage in war? What would Auden say about today's social media campaigns of censorship? 

Teju Cole, New Yorker, A Reader's War
Edward Mendelson, NY Review of Books, Auden on No-Platforming Pound

The Grammar Guy:
Sarah Lyall, NYT, Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer
Maris Kreizman, Vulture, Grammar Guru Benjamin Dreyer Talks Twitter Style, Denounces ‘Onboarding’
Benjamin Dreyer, Paris Review, Three Writing Rules to Disregard

Book reviews:
Justin Lee, First Things, The Art of Spiritual Warfare
Brad East, Christian Century, An anti-Enlightenment ax to grind
Peter Boumgarden, Christian Century, Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Eric Miller, CT, Submit to God, Not the Market
Kathryn Tanner, First Things, Theology's Umpire
David Crumm, Read the Spirit, In ‘For the Life of the World,’ Miroslav Volf argues: ‘Christian theology has lost its way …’
Adam Kirsch, Tablet Mag, The Alter Bible

James KA Smith, LARB, A (Not So) Secular Saint

Jason Byassee, Christian Century, Loving the creed, loving God

Nathan Goldman, The Nation, Wellness Is Always a Scam
Anthony M Barr, Kirk Center, Reclaiming a Place for Conversation

A great four-part, multi-author review of Jill Lepore's These Truths (and two recent pieces from Lepore herself):

Craig Bruce Smith, Kirk Center, A Conflicted Idea of America
Daniel N Gullotta, Kirk Center, What Hath Lepore Wrought
Robert Greene II, Kirk Center, Citizenship and the Fitful History of the American Way
Lauren F Turek, Kirk Center, Recent Domestic History

Jill Lepore, Foreign Affairs, A New Americanism
Jill Lepore, New Yorker, Does Journalism Have a Future?

Miscellaneous cultural criticism:
Megan Garber, The Atlantic, Apocalypse Is Now a Chronic Condition
Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, How the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think
Matthew Walther, The Week, Marie Kondo and the rise of clutter shaming
Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 'Identity is a pain in the arse': Zadie Smith on political correctness

Jen Doll, Harper's Bazaar, Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You?

Emily Raboteau, NY Review of Books, Climate Signs

Eugene McCarraher, Commonweal, Undemocratic by Design

Two pieces from Agnes Callard – What would it look like to think things through better? Is pop philosophy really philosophy?

Agnes Callard, Boston Review, Don't Overthink It
Agnes Callard, The Point, Is Public Philosophy Good?

Tech stuff:

Oliver Sacks, New Yorker, The Machine Stops
Eduardo Porter, NYT, Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
Kate Wagner, The Baffler, 404 Page Not Found
Niko Maragos, Popula, The Extremely Online Nun
Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo, I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books, The Communal Mind

Casey Newton, The Verge, The Trauma Floor

Baltimore stuff:
Daniel Parsons, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore teacher: 'Our city is slaughtering black children'
Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 'It’s heartbreaking,' Baltimore attorney says, recalling two former clients killed in recent spate of violence

Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, When violence lands at your feet: bullet from Baltimore shooting ricochets past woman, 80, in her dining room

Rachel Nania, WTOP, ‘I wanted to do more for people than just pray’: Pastor blends faith, farms to end food insecurity in black churches

Brandon Soderberg, The Outline, In Baltimore, the future of film culture is an old-school video store

Weird vocal music:

Stacey Anderson, The Guardian, Is Caroline Shaw really the future of music?
Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, Roomful of Teeth is Revolutionizing Choral Music

Pets:

Rosaria Butterfield, TGC, That D*** Dog: How Pets Can Be a Catalyst for Evangelism
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, Why We Think Cats Are Psychopaths