Monday, January 6, 2020

The last reads of the decade

Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Aeon, Gender Is Not a Spectrum

Tara Isabella Burton, America, How I learned to love my Christianity

Michael Knowles, American Mind, The Secret Wisdom of Transgender Revolution

Cathy Young, Arc Digital, Harry Potter and the Transgender Revolution

Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Crisis of American Christianity, Viewed From Great Britain
Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, The Moral Universe of Tim Keller
Emma Green, The Atlantic, How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Christian Withdrawal Experiment
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Evangelicalism's Silent Majority

Fred Wilson, AVC, What Happened In the 2010s

Anne Helen Petersen, Buzzfeed, Forgive Us Our Debts
Katherine Miller, Buzzfeed, The 2010s Broke Our Sense of Time

Brandon D Smith, Center for Baptist Renewal, The Lord's Supper is More than a Memory

Elizabeth Pease, Christ & Pop Culture, A Hidden Life: Terrence Malick Helps Us See the Invisible

David Bentley Hart, Church Life Journal, Richard Dawkins Discovers His Ideal Idiom and Audience

Erin Leaverton, Comment, Meeting Grace

J V Fersko, Credo Magazine, Union with Christ and the Problem of Identity

Wesley Hill, CT, Remember the Future
Mark Galli, CT, Trump Should Be Removed From Office
Timothy Dalrymple, CTThe Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT’s President

Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, Dallas Morning News, When 6th graders can access rape porn on their smartphones, school becomes toxic

Ruth Buchanan, FathomI have the spiritual gift of reading. 

Elizabeth Stice, Front Porch Republic, It's a Wonderful Film
John Nichols, Front Porch Republic, The Enchantments of Mammon–and the Hope of Alternative Enchantments

Daniel Cox & Amelia Thompson-DeVeaux, FiveThirtyEight, Millennials Are Leaving Religion and Not Coming Back

John M Frame, TGC, Where Did Gentleness Go as a Pastoral Virtue?
Karen Swallow Prior, TGCHow ‘Little Women’ Re-Reads the Original Novel

Jim Farber, Guardian, 'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50
Bridie Jabour, Guardian, The millennials at 31: welcome to the age of misery

Martyn Wendell Jones, Image Journal, Smells Like Teen Spirit: God and Adolescence in New Literature

Sam Buckland, LARB, Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” and the Banality of Good

Luma Simms, Law & Liberty, Persecution, True and False

Samuel James, Letter & Liturgy, Yeah, But What if the 'Elites' Are Right?

Amy Peeler, Marginalia, History Is Not Enough: The Bible After Modernity

Charles L Marohn Jr, Marketwatch, This ‘Ponzi scheme’ surrounding development leaves most cities and towns functionally insolvent

James Hatch, Medium, My Semester With the Snowflakes

Matthew Arbo, MereO, Come, Desire of Nations, Come: An Advent Reflection
Joshua Heavin, MereO, A Hidden Life as Temptation Narrative
Susannah Black, MereO, The Political Theology of Brunch: a Post in Honor of the Season
Cameron Shaffer, MereO, Our Fathers Left Us Evangelicalism

Nick Pinkerton, Metrograph, Things We Lost in the Fire: A Hidden Life and the Films of Terrence Malick

Taylor Fang, MIT Technology Review, We asked teenagers what adults are missing about technology. This was the best response.

Author Unkown, Nature Sacred, Nature and a New Beginning

Matt Frost, The New Atlantis, After Climate Despair

Gabriel Winant, New Republic, Life Under the Algorithm

Gracy Olmstead, NYT, Trump Wants to Take From the Poor and Give to the Wealthy
Molly Worthen, NYT, What Would Jesus Do About Inequality?
Ross Douthat, NYT, Laughing Through the Trump Era
A O Scott, NYT, ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Revolution No. 9
Ross Douthat, NYT, The World Christmas Made
Tim Kreider, NYT, We Can't See 'Star Wars' Anymore
Esau McCaulley, NYT, The Bloody Fourth Day of Christmas
Reed Abelson, NYT, It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It’s Not. ‘Just Trust God,’ Buyers Are Told.

Tara Isabella Burton, Plough, Another Hundred People

Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope, Why the Christianity Today Editorial Matters
Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope, More on the CT editorial, thoughts on 2020 and other ideas

Tyler Huckabee, Relevant, Greta Gerwig on How Being Moral Is Both ‘Old Fashioned and Wildly New’

J Kameron Carter, Religion News Service, Behind Christianity Today’s editorial is a deeper crisis of America's religion of whiteness
Matthew Arbo, Religion News Service, Trump's tweets and actions aren't good fruit — or moral

Ruth Graham, Slate, The Hidden Power of Evangelical Women

Marlo Safi, Spectator, Let's talk about porn

Steve Chu & Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, Creating Community Through Food

Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is what happens when a franchise gives up
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaptation is genuinely extraordinary
Jane Coaston, Vox, Christianity Today called for Trump’s removal. Here’s why that doesn’t matter.
Kyle Chayka, Vox, Can monoculture survive the algorithm?

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, With A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick Takes on the Evils of History

Eric Cortallessa, Washington Monthly, Who Does Maryland’s Governor Really Work For?

Sarah Pulliam Bailey, WaPo, ‘A wake-up call:’ British theologian N.T. Wright on the prosperity gospel, climate change and Advent
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, WaPo, Christianity Today, an influential evangelical magazine, says Trump ‘should be removed from office’
Amy B Wang, WaPo, At one evangelical church, congregants dismiss the Christianity Today editorial — if they’ve read it at all 

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