Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Book Review of the Week
You, Me, and the Heavenly Three? (A Response to Larry Crabb’s Fully Alive), Fred Sanders. “Crabb’s description of what it means to be masculine and feminine can stand or fall on its own merits. He supports it with scriptural argumentation, psychological observation, and practical application. But I wish he’d leave the Trinity out of it.”
Articles of the Week
My Cross to Wear, Whitney Bauck.“How do we respond to this commodification of our faith’s most central symbol? We start by considering how we wear, display, and treat Christian imagery ourselves. The fact that I spend my Sundays in church doesn’t necessarily mean I’m wearing the cross any less flippantly than a nonbeliever who does so because it’s trendy.”
8 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Seminary, Matt Damico. With the upcoming fall semester upon us, this is a helpful read for anyone beginning (or thinking of beginning) seminary.
Does Faith Make You Healthier? And Does That Even Matter? Ari N. Schulman. Scientists are giving us more and more evidence that belief has tangible physical benefits. Most Christians are pleased with this, but Schulman warns that these scientific conclusions may be ignoring the core of what faith is all about.
10 Resolutions for Mental Health, John Piper. This is an ever-timely reminder to “stop being unamazed by the strange glory of ordinary things.”
On The Lighter Side
40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World. Some of these really surprised me. Some were about what I would expect. And some were just silly. #19 is my favorite.
