This week, I joined Barnabas Piper and Todd Adkins on the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, and they asked me a number of questions about who I’m learning from, the opportunities and challenges I’m facing in my current role, and what I would say to my 20-year-old self. You can listen to the episode online or find it on iTunes.
Kindle Deal
This week’s Kindle deal is a very important book by Ed Shaw about the “plausibility problem” the Church has in calling people who are same-sex attracted to a life of holiness. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life. $2.99.
Links for your weekend reading
Seven of the best articles I came across this week:
1. Emma Green in The Atlantic – The Impoliteness of Talking about Religion. Why are Americans are often reluctant to discuss faith outside of their families?
2. John Gray – The Anomaly of Barbarism. I don’t agree with all of Gray’s assessment here, but he is right to puncture “the myth of progress” that continues to hamper the West’s response to ISIS.
3. Wency Leung in The Globe – Couples in Canada Practicing Prenatal Sex Selection. Translation: Couples are killing girls in the womb just for being girls.
4. Rod Dreher – The Secret Shame of the Middle Class. American individualism, our mounting debts, and why they matter.
5. Gavin Ortlund – 5 Ways to Make It Through a Difficult Season. “When God calls you to endure in difficult environments, here are five strategies I’ve learned to abide by.”
6. Harriet Tubman will be on the 20-dollar bill. Get to know her via this brief biographical sketch or this list of interesting facts. She’s a Christian hero.
7. Your Church is Not Political Enough. Andrew Walker reviews Jonathan Leeman’s new book, Political Church.