Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Podcast of the Week (or year!)
To date, this is W4YW’s first podcast recommendation. For a while now we’ve been searching for an intelligent, informative, & extensive news podcast that interprets the daily news from a Christian perspective. “The World and Everything in It” is just that podcast.
Articles of the Week
The War on Women, Ross Douthat, New York Times. This is a nuanced and insightful article on the all-too-frequent misogyny that female writers experience on the internet. Douthat looks into the reasons behind this (very real and very troubling) abuse. Most interestingly, he suggests that the way forward involves a better definition of masculinity—one that uses strength for others, instead of at their expense.
When You Are Planning to Sin Again, Ed Welch. “So what we are really asking is this: As a result of God’s manifold grace to us, do we woo or warn? The matter of intentional and planned sin does not force us to choose grace or law. Instead, both grace and law reveal the character of God, and we want access to the range of God’s character as we woo or warn. With all the persuasive love we can possibly offer, with pleading, we consider both the kindness and sternness of God (Rom. 11:22).”
The Bible (in 140 characters or less), Ben Myers. As he was reading through the Bible, Ben Myers would tweet a 140-character summary of each book. He’s compiled the list here for what he calls “the shortest (and most unreliable) commentary on the whole Bible.” I find a lot of his pithy insights quite powerful. One of my favorites: “Galatians: We felt insecure without our chains so we hired experts to repair them. Then Paul came back, wielding a sledgehammer.”
Why Same-Sex Attraction Isn’t Just About Sex, Sam Allberry. “Whatever my feelings say, no single earthly friend can ever satisfy me at this level — no friend was intended to satisfy me at this level. Jesus alone is sufficient soul-bread. As someone who battles with same-sex attraction, this truth is liberating. The more I live in the light of it, the more I know it to be true.”
On The Lighter Side
Issac Asimov correctly predicts the world in 2014 . . . fifty years ago. Okay, so he doesn’t get it all right (what’s the hold-up with flying cars, anyway?), but some of these are incredibly astute.
