Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Podcast of the Week
“Accidental Racist” by Brad Paisley and LL Cool J, Russell Moore and Thabiti Anyabwile.
Articles of the Week
Health-Food Heresy: When Healthy Eating Becomes Your God, Lindsey Carlson. Gluttony—the idolatry of food—isn’t just limited to overeating. The same idolatry can show up at Trader Joe’s, too.
Jackie Robinson and the Pattern of Jesus, David Mathis. “The heart of the Jackie Robinson story is that he changed America by successfully living out, both on and off the baseball field, the revolutionary and world-changing words of Jesus.”
Steve Jobs and the Goal of Preaching, Matt McCullough. The Bible doesn’t just address our needs. It also defines them. Oddly enough, it took Steve Jobs to highlight this.
Men on Conversation Overload, Ed Welch. “Silence might be your refuge because it leaves you feeling innocent and even righteous, but we can sin in what we say, and we can sin with our indifferent silence too.”
