Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Book Review/Video of the Week
The Genius of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech – A Pictoral Analysis
Articles of the Week
I Weep for Miley, Trevin Wax. “Picking up a sub sandwich today, I saw a news report on CNN about Miley Cyrus’ performance at last night’s VMA’s. I was shocked, then sickened, then saddened. For the rest of the day, I wondered: What kind of people are we? What kind of culture have we created? What do we want our children to be? No more wondering. Tonight, I weep.”
Is the Price of American Citizenship the Denial of Religious Liberty? Al Mohler. This is a good chronicling of the ever-growing threat posed to religious liberty by the new mandate to support homosexuality.
“Quick to Listen” . . . But Listen to Whom? Ed Welch. “Be quick to listen” may be used as practical advice to listen to others before we speak. And it’s good advice. But it’s not what the apostle James meant.
9 Lies About Singleness, Emma Thornett. “I’m in my late thirties. Many of the struggles that surround singleness are my struggles too: tossing up between living on my own (and being lonely and possibly broke) or living with flatmates (and regularly having to find and get used to new ones); turning up to things on my own all the time; feeling the unvoiced wonderings of friends, who think I’m too fussy, or gay, or weird; feeling surprised and disappointed that I’m not married by now, and wondering what’s wrong with me. I tire of all of those things.
However, I remain convinced that God’s word in the Bible is true, and I am determined to cling to it.”
What to Do If You Wake Up Feeling Fragile, John Piper. “There are mornings when I wake up feeling fragile. Vulnerable. It’s often vague. No single threat. No one weakness. Just an amorphous sense that something is going to go wrong and I will be responsible.”
On The Lighter Side
If the NSA wanted to make things up to us . . .
