Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Book Review / Video of the Week
What Is The Meaning of Sex?, by Denny Burk, reviewed by Tim Challies. This should prove to be a particularly useful book for pastors and any others looking for ways to address the increasingly confusing sexual climate with the enduring truth of Scripture.
Articles of the Week
Why We Should Legalize Murder for Hire, Betsy Childs. This is a stingingly satirical piece pointing out the natural (and terrifying) implications of pro-choice arguments. As Childs writes, “Killing her husband . . . is not a decision that anyone else can make for a woman. It is her marriage; only she can decide when it must end.”
Don’t Women in the Sex Industry Choose That Lifestyle? Lore Ferguson. “If you’re judging her because you think she chose to be there, your moral compass has been calibrated to the Pretty Woman culture. No one chooses that lifestyle. No one asks to be raped, exploited, trafficked, paraded, blackmailed, or abused.”
5 Minutes, Michael Kelley. “Chances are, that kid who is standing there with the coloring book or the snotty nose or the football or the aspiration to the world’s most incredible game of tag imaginable isn’t really asking me for two hours; he or she is really asking me for five minutes.”
C.S. Lewis, the Neanderthal and Dinosaur, Justin Taylor (quoting John Piper). C.S. Lewis continues to command our attention, decades after his death. As Piper points out, many of his more peculiar attributes are also his more endearing.
On The Lighter Side
“History in Color” takes historical black and white photos and colorizes them. Some of these (like Walt Whitman & Abe Lincoln) are pretty fascinating. Others (like the Hindenburg) are a little eerie.
