Kindle Deal: The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ by Andrew Klavan. $2.99.
Seven of the best articles I came across this week:
1. Wesley Hill responds to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s “cheap shots” on gay marriage, and Rod Dreher is haunted by a question posed by Alan Jacobs to “affirming churches.”
2. Jen Wilkin – 4 Portraits of Power from a Magazine Rack Near You. Consider four of the most common sources of power we seek, and the implications of using them either to glorify self or to glorify God. To identify these sources, we need look no further than the covers of the magazines in the grocery store checkout line.
3. Kate Shellnutt in Christianity Today – Kickstarter’s Million Dollar Bible is Finally Finished. Bibliotheca has company!
4. Todd Wright – 4 Reasons Every Pastor Should Ask For Feedback and Welcome Critique. This is the way to go, folks. Get better by listening.
5. Kalefa Sanneh in The New Yorker – The New Evangelical Moral Minority. Interesting take on the divisions in the religious right, the leadership of Russell Moore, and the place of religious conservatives in American society.
6. Constance Hull – Abortion’s Miscarriage Problem. By acknowledging the tragic reality of miscarriage and supporting those who grieve, we can build a culture of life and encourage our society to recognize the humanity of the unborn child.
7. Erika Christasis – My Halloween email led to a troubling firestorm… and a troubling lesson about self-censorship. Colleges don’t seem like ‘safe spaces’ for free speech any longer.