Podcast Pick of the Week: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen’s conversation with René Breuel, pastor of Hopera, an evangelical church in Rome: “How American Evangelicals Lost Credibility with the Global Church.”
Kindle Deal: The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth by Jared Wilson. $2.99.
Seven of the best articles I came across this week:
1. Aaron Earls – Christians, Conspiracy Theories, and Credibility: Why Our Words Today Matter for Eternity. Excellent reporting and commentary here from Aaron Earls.
2. Brett McCracken – How to Weather the Worsening Trust Crisis. Brett McCracken on the importance of a properly ordered knowledge diet. If we are to recover more solid epistemological ground, we must be more intentional about where we’re looking and listening.
3. Lifeway Voices – 4 Overlooked Voices from Church History You Should Know. A brief introduction to George Liele, Phillis Wheatley, Charles Boothe, Mahalia Jackson.
4. John Starke – Let Limitations Do Their Work. “Limitations can be deeply formational. A heart that can digest the truth, ‘Okay, I cannot have this,’ becomes more fully aware of what they have.”
5. Katie McCoy – An executive order marginalizing women and girls. “Equality” means expecting biological females to check their privilege and consenting to a social concept of “woman” that is, ironically, defined by biological men.
6. Amy Brown – I’m a social media manager. Facebook and Twitter have made my job an ethical nightmare. A fascinating (albeit tragic) look at the life of a social media manager in an age of disinformation and abuse. See also Marvin Olaskey – Alternate universes. “Our deeper problems are theological, not political. Elephant-riding Republicans eventually get stomped. Democrats who worship worldly wise-men are betting on the wrong donkey.”
7. John Piper – Before You Tweet Criticism: Six Considerations. How different evangelical Twitter would be if we followed this counsel.
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